Pope Leon XIV condemns abortion and surrogacy. He besides criticises the alleged "abortion tourism"

Pope Leon XIV powerfully condemned abortion and surrogacy, indicating that they were a serious violation of human dignity. He added that the allocation of public funds to support these practices is "deplorable". The Holy Father besides stressed his serious concern about the financing of the alleged "abortion tourism".

In his speech, the Pope stressed that life is simply a “valuable gift” that must be protected from conception and that the household is his “responsible guardian”.

"Life is in fact a priceless gift that develops within an engaged relation based on common devotion and service," said Pope Leon XIV. "In the light of this deep imagination of life as a gift to be valued and a household as its liable guardian, we categorically reject all practices that contradict or exploit the origin of life and its development," the Holy Father pointed out.

The Pope expressed peculiar concern about initiatives financing abroad travel in order to carry out abortions.

"In this regard, the Holy See expresses its deep concern at projects aimed at financing cross-border mobility in order to gain access to the alleged "right" for safe abortion," the Pope said.

Pope Leon XIV besides criticized programmes financing abortion from taxpayers' money, alternatively of handing them over to aid pregnant women.

In his speech, the pope explicitly said of "the suppression of life", which is financed by public funds, alternatively of being invested in support of mothers and families."

The speech besides addressed the issue of surrogacy, sometimes called "substitution." The Pope described them as a violation of human dignity.

"In transforming pregnancy into a negotiated service, the dignity of both the kid who has been reduced to a product and the parent utilizing her body and reproductive process, distorting the first establishment of the household to a relationship" he pointed out.

Source: lifenews.com

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