WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Sicilia Libertaria, Oct-23: For voluntary and free motherhood (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In this dark period of crisis that we are experiencing, full of

uncertainty, restlessness and anguish, there are words that overwhelm us
such as war, unemployment, climate crisis, economic crisis , often
pronounced by the wrong people; the term birth rate has been added to
them . ---- There is a need to delve deeper and fully explain their
authentic meaning to clear away the instrumental uses that are made of
them. In this Special we tackle the latest addition, DENATALITY, trying
to dissect it from various points of view to decipher what the
government wants to pass off as an objective fact, and therefore say
what government and Catholic propaganda avoids saying.

We women have completed a historical journey that has led us to the
conquest of a whole series of fundamental rights which are currently
being called into question; among them the issue of abortion is the one
most closely linked to that of the birth rate. Anyone who continues to
profess "god, homeland and family" as the founding values of their
beliefs is expected to in fact launch a subtle and heavy attack on the
right to self-determination not only of women but also of LGBTQIA+
people. Women did not want to be defined through motherhood, despite art
and literature indicating this role, after the "Nations" needed our
children for their wars, after the absence of motherhood was seen as a
social disvalue , after we had tried to dismantle the ideology of the
maternal role that denied us as a person. Now the traditional
patriarchal model is back in vogue which sees women through the sole
social function of motherhood: producing children and doing so within
the exclusive family model admitted by Church and State, which excludes,
does not recognize, children born to same-parent families. For the
woman, her own ability to generate her own meant being sure of divine
blessing and that of the homeland; on the contrary, the sterile woman
was (and is) considered cursed, a dead arm of the social body. We should
hypothesize as possible that the next steps of this government are aimed
at making maternity obligatory, canceling the free and conscious
motherhood that we have all fought for. Now the traditional patriarchal
model is back in vogue which sees women through the sole social function
of motherhood: producing children and doing so within the exclusive
family model admitted by Church and State, which excludes, does not
recognize, children born to same-parent families. For the woman, her own
ability to generate her own meant being sure of divine blessing and that
of the homeland; on the contrary, the sterile woman was (and is)
considered cursed, a dead arm of the social body. We should hypothesize
as possible that the next steps of this government are aimed at making
maternity obligatory, canceling the free and conscious motherhood that
we have all fought for. Now the traditional patriarchal model is back in
vogue which sees women through the sole social function of motherhood:
producing children and doing so within the exclusive family model
admitted by Church and State, which excludes, does not recognize,
children born to same-parent families. For the woman, her own ability to
generate her own meant being sure of divine blessing and that of the
homeland; on the contrary, the sterile woman was (and is) considered
cursed, a dead arm of the social body. We should hypothesize as possible
that the next steps of this government are aimed at making maternity
obligatory, canceling the free and conscious motherhood that we have all
fought for. produce children and do so within the exclusive family model
admitted by Church and State, which excludes and does not recognize
children born to same-parent families. For women, their ability to
generate meant being sure of divine blessing and that of their homeland;
on the contrary, the sterile woman was (and is) considered cursed, a
dead arm of the social body. We should hypothesize as possible that the
next steps of this government are aimed at making maternity obligatory,
canceling the free and conscious motherhood that we have all fought for.
produce children and do so within the exclusive family model admitted by
Church and State, which excludes and does not recognize children born to
same-parent families. For women, their ability to generate meant being
sure of divine blessing and that of their homeland; on the contrary, the
sterile woman was (and is) considered cursed, a dead arm of the social
body. We should hypothesize as possible that the next steps of this
government are aimed at making maternity obligatory, canceling the free
and conscious motherhood that we have all fought for. For women, their
ability to generate meant being sure of divine blessing and that of
their homeland; on the contrary, the sterile woman was (and is)
considered cursed, a dead arm of the social body. We should hypothesize
as possible that the next steps of this government are aimed at making
maternity obligatory, canceling the free and conscious motherhood that
we have all fought for. For women, their ability to generate meant being
sure of divine blessing and that of their homeland; on the contrary, the
sterile woman was (and is) considered cursed, a dead arm of the social
body. We should hypothesize as possible that the next steps of this
government are aimed at making maternity obligatory, canceling the free
and conscious motherhood that we have all fought for.

We know that since the times of Lady Sapiens people had control of their
bodies to avoid unwanted pregnancies; as the anthropologist Michèle
Coquet wrote: "Women... are able to control their own cycle and their
own fertility. They practice abstinence, in case they do not wish to
procreate." This makes us reflect on the fact that conscious birth
control (the birth rate) can be the result of moments, of precise eras
of humanity in which women become aware of the historical moment in
which they live and act accordingly.

In the early years of the 20th century another moment of birth decline
and depopulation occurred, but for completely different reasons than
what we are experiencing now. Eugenic thought stated: "The history of
nations is not determined on the battlefields, but in nurseries, and the
battalions that achieve lasting victory are the battalions of children.
The politics of the future will be family politics." Within this thought
there were thinkers who proposed the subjection of women as the price to
pay because their intellectual development damaged their reproductive
faculties. At this point we think:

Another point: the concern about national depopulation that disturbs the
aforementioned characters so much does not actually hide the completely
unfounded (but clever weapon of mass distraction) fear that if the
population does not grow there is the risk that it will be replaced by
others peoples, that is, from other "races", from which derives the
sacredness of motherhood as a duty and destiny of women to rebalance the
domination of the "white race".

These are two aspects that stimulate other reflections that we are
forced to make whether we like it or not. The tones and themes of the
debate concern the defense of fertility combined and connected with the
continuity of the human race, and let's say it, in particular of that
part of the more progressive, more mature, culturally richer human
population, which coincidentally is made to coincide with that Western
world, Europe and the United States in the lead, both threatened by
declining birth rates.

How is the free choice not to have children interpreted today? with
widespread alarmism that accuses every way of conceiving one's life in
society, based on self-determination, on choices and decisions that lead
to other, alternative, free reasoning on the family and motherhood.

Clerico-fascists think that we can grow infinitely, ignoring the already
quite irreversible consequences of the planet's overpopulation.

The theme raised as a flag over the years by the various feminist
movements, both those with reformist tendencies and those radical or
revolutionary, has been and continues to be that of birth control, of
"voluntary motherhood" (with various nuances depending on the groups to
which they belong ) who rebels against the role of procreator
necessarily imposed on women. Today, taking up this definition we can
give it a new meaning and talk about "voluntary motherhood" as
opposition to a birth strategy that reaffirms the function of women as
reproductive machines. Reconsider and therefore claim the birth rate as
a way of opposing a policy that contrasts the right to
self-determination, contraception, abortion, and which defends the
traditional patriarchal family as a unique model,

Letizia Giarratana

https://www.sicilialibertaria.it/
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