Emma Bonino, leader of abortion and divorce battles that changed Italy, dies aged 78, her party says

1. 1974
   Bonino, at 26, became pregnant and had an illegal abortion
2. 1975
   She co-founded the Information Center for Sterilization and Abortion
3. 1976
   She was elected to the Italian parliament for the Radical Party
4. 1978
   Abortion was legalized in Italy
5. 1995
   Berlusconi offered her a seat as European Commissioner
6. June 1999
   She headed Lista Bonino, winning 8.5% of the vote in European elections
7. January 2015
   She announced her lung cancer diagnosis on Radio Radicale
8. 2017
   She became leader of +Europa ahead of the 2018 Italian general election

“Her life was a long struggle against everything that denies freedom: against clandestine abortion, world hunger, the stranglehold of party politics, female genital mutilation, punitive justice, genocide, and every form of authoritarianism.”