Pope Francis compares abortion to “hiring a hitman” and he says it can never be condoned
By Julio
Severo
Pope Francis has compared abortion to
“hiring a hitman” during a pro-life conference at the Vatican.
He urged doctors to support families to
carry all pregnancies to term.
Francis claimed his opposition to abortion
was not for religious issues, but for human reasons.
He said: “Is it licit to throw away a life
to resolve a problem? Is it licit to hire a hitman to resolve a problem?”
Francis disagreed with abortions done on
grounds of prenatal testing which reveals problems with the unborn baby.
Francis
said that unborn babies should be looked after for as long as possible.
“Taking care of these children helps
parents to grieve and not only think of it as a loss, but as a step on a path
taken together,” Francis said.
The conference was organized by the
Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, and the “Heart in a Drop” Foundation,
which works to welcome “children born in conditions of extreme fragility.”
He told the crowd every child is “a gift
that changes the history of a family… and this child needs to be welcomed,
loved and cared for.”
He said often the “mere suspicion of
disease can change the experience of pregnancy,” and even risk “throwing women
and couples” into a “deep despair.”
But “the evolution of every disease is
always subjective and often not even doctors know how it will manifest itself
in the individual,” said the Pope.
Francis has spoken out strongly against
abortion. In June 2018 he likened abortion to Nazi eugenics — saying parents
should accept the children God gives them.
At a meeting of an Italian pro-family
association he told those gathered that as a child he was horrified to
hear stories from his teacher about children “thrown from the mountain” if they
were born with malformations.
“Today we do the same thing,” he said.
“Last century, the whole world was scandalized by what the Nazis did to purify
the race. Today, we do the same thing but with white gloves.”
In spite of the pope’s pro-life stances,
there is a fascist
esoteric movement led by Steve Bannon seeking to undermine him.
Portuguese version of this article: Papa Francisco compara o aborto a “contratar um assassino
profissional” e diz que nunca dá para se desculpar o aborto
Source: Last Days Watchman
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