The Pontifical Academy for Life said this Friday (24) that the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States to annul federal jurisprudence on abortion in the country is an issue that “interpels the entire world” and that there is a need to reopen a debate. on the protection of life in a society.
“The court’s decision shows how the abortion issue continues to provoke heated debate. The fact that a great country with a long democratic tradition has changed its position on this issue also challenges the entire world,” the Pontifical Academy said in a statement.
“The protection and defense of human life is not an issue that can be limited to the exercise of individual rights, but it is a matter of broad social significance,” he added.
After this decision, the world must “reopen a non-ideological debate about the place of the protection of life in a civil society”, in order to ask itself “what kind of coexistence and society” it wants to build.
“This also means ensuring adequate sex education, guaranteeing health care accessible to all, and preparing legislative measures to protect the family and motherhood, overcoming existing inequalities”, says the note.
The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Vincenzo Paglia, explained that “in the face of a Western society that is losing its passion for life, this event is a powerful invitation to reflect together on the serious and urgent question of human generativity and the conditions that make it possible.
“In choosing life, our responsibility for the future of humanity is at stake. It is time to heal wounds and mend social divisions, it is time for reasoned reflection and civil dialogue, and to come together to build a society and economy that supports marriages and families.”
The US Supreme Court on Friday overturned federal jurisprudence that had been in place in the United States since 1973, in a landmark decision that will allow each state to decide whether to uphold or prohibit the legality of abortion.
Kentucky, Louisiana and South Dakota already banned termination of pregnancy on Friday as soon as the decision was announced, while 23 other states may do the same in the short term.
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