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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Tuesday paid a home visit to Emma Bonino, a veteran politician who successfully campaigned in the 1970s to legalize abortion in Italy, bringing her a bouquet of roses and chocolates.A photo posted by Bonino on social media showed them both sitting in wheelchairs on her sun-drenched terrace in Rome.Bonino, 76, was released from hospital last month after suffering from respiratory and heart problems.
Bonino was first elected to the Italian parliament in 1976 as a member of the anti-establishment Radical Party, which pushed passage of a law to legalize abortion in 1978, later confirmed by a national referendum in 1981.A human rights and social justice champion, she was also a member of the European Commission in the 1990s and served as foreign, trade and EU affairs minister in Italian centre-left governments of the 2000s and 2010s.
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