Translated from the Italian, this is is from the noted Italian journalist, who died in 2006, yet could be writing today. Or perhaps not. Today she might be jailed for writing basic facts as what follows.
Taken from her book: Oriana Fallacci Interviews herself – Apocalypse
(Originally written in Italian the English Translation is by me)
Oriana Fallaci
WITH WHAT RIGHT DOES A HOMOSEXUAL COUPLE ASKS TO ADOPT A CHILD?
A human being is born from two individuals of opposite sex. A fish, a bird, an elephant, an insect, the same. To be conceived you need an ovum and a spermatozoon. Like it or not, on this planet life works this way. Well, some experts in biogenetics say that in the future one could do without the spermatozoon. But not without the ovum. Whether dealing with mammals or oviparous, the ovum will always be required. The ovum, the egg, which in the case of human beings is inside the belly of a woman and when fecundated transforms into a spark of Life then a sprout of Life, and through the wonderful journey of pregnancy becomes another Life. Another human being. Therefore. A male homosexual does not have an ovum. The belly of a woman, the womb to grow it in, neither. And there isn’t any biogenetics in the world that can resolve such an issue. Clonation included. The female homosexual, yes has the ovum. The belly of a woman necessary to complete the marvellous journey that brings a spark of Life, then a sprout of Life, then another Life, another human being, ditto. But her partner can’t fertilise her. And so, if she doesn’t join herself to a man, or doesn’t ask a man to please give her some sperm, she finds herself in the same conditions of the male homosexual.
And a priori, not because she is unlucky and her babies die before they are born, she does not take part in the continuation of her species. To the duty of having to perpetuate her species through who comes and will come after her.
With what right, then, a homosexual couple (male or female) asks to adopt a child?
With what right do they pretend to raise a child within a distorted view of Life, that is, with two dads or two moms in place of a dad or mom?
And in the case of two male homosexuals, with what right does the couple use the belly of a woman to procure for themselves a child and perhaps buy it like one might buy a car?
With what right, in short, do they steal from a woman, the pain and miracle of maternity?
When they talk of gay adoption, I feel robbed in my female belly. Even if I don’t have children, I feel used, exploited, like a cow that births calves destined for the abattoir.
And in the image of two men, or two women, that with a baby between them play the comedy of Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph, I see something monstrously wrong. Something that offends me, or rather, humiliates me as a woman, as a mother who could not be, unlucky mother. And as a citizen.
Therefore, offended and humiliated, I tell myself: I am outraged by the silence, the hypocrisy, the cowardice that surrounds this issue. I am infuriated by the people who remain silent, who is scared of talking about it, of telling the truth. And the truth is that the laws of the state cannot ignore the laws of Nature. They can’t falsify with the ambiguity of words like “parents” and “spouses” the Laws of Life.
The state can’t deliver a child, that is, a defenceless and unknowing creature, to parents with whom he or she will live, believing that one is born from two dads or two moms instead of one dad and one mom. And to those who blackmail us with the story of children without food or without a home (a story which in any case does not hold, since in our society we have an excess of normal couples ready to adopt them) I say: a child is not a dog or a cat, to feed and that’s it, house and that’s it. A child is a human being, a citizen, with inalienable rights. Far more inalienable that the rights, or rather, presumed rights, of two homosexuals with paternal or maternal manias.
And the first of these rights, is to know how one is born on our planet, how Life works on our planet, how Life works in our species. Completely impossible with two “parents” of the same sex.
She was a remarkable woman.