He Pope Francisco today described surrogacy as “deplorable” and called “for the international community to commit to universally prohibiting this practice,” 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 become a Comercial product. In this sense, I consider the practice of so-called surrogacy to be deplorable,” he assured.
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In his opinion, not only “seriously offends the dignity of women and children”, but “it 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. Therefore, I make a call for the international community “commits to universally prohibiting this practice” said.
Francisco He insisted that “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.”
The pontiff also strongly criticized “gender theory”What do i consider “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 colonizations.“, said,
And between them “Gender theory occupies a central place, which is extremely dangerous because it erases differences in its claim to make everyone equal. Such ideological colonizations cause wounds and divisions between States, instead of promote the construction of peace”, he asserted.
