This Monday, Pope Francis described the practice of surrogacy as “deplorable” and called “for the international community to commit to universally prohibiting” this technique, which in Spain is illegal and which involves a woman carrying a child. a child for third parties. The Pontiff made these statements in the traditional speech at the beginning of the year before the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See.
“The path to peace requires respect for life, for all human life, starting with that of the unborn child, which cannot be suppressed or turned into a commercial product. In this sense, I consider the practice of so-called surrogacy to be deplorable,” he said. In his opinion, it not only “seriously offends the dignity of women and children,” but “is based on the exploitation of the mother's situation of material need.”
“A child is always a gift and never the object of a contract. For this reason, I call on the international community to commit to universally banning this practice,” he said. “At every moment of its existence, human life must be preserved and protected, although I note, with regret, especially in the West, the persistent spread of a culture of death that, in the name of false compassion, discards children, the elderly and the sick,” Francis insisted.
The Pontiff has also strongly criticized “gender theory”, which he considered “extremely dangerous”. “Unfortunately, the attempts that have occurred in recent decades to introduce new rights, not entirely compatible with those originally defined and not always acceptable, have given rise to ideological colonization,” he stated. And among them “gender theory occupies a central place, which is extremely dangerous because it erases the differences in its claim to make everyone equal. “Such ideological colonizations cause wounds and divisions between States, instead of favoring the construction of peace,” he noted.
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