PEOPLES GAZETTE
Pope Francis has denounced abortions and the carrying of children by surrogate mothers as grave offences against human dignity.
In a declaration of principles published by the Vatican on Monday, the head of the Catholic Church also described gender reassignment and “gender theory’’ as offences against what he said was the God-given dignity of human beings.
“Any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception,” said Mr Francis.
A human being, whether unborn or not, is always something sacred and inviolable, according to the document.
The termination of a pregnancy means nothing other than denying human dignity to the “most defenceless’’ beings.
The Vatican’s latest declaration draws a parallel between abortion and surrogacy when , woman carries a child on behalf of someone else and then gives it to them after the birth.
In this way, the declaration says, a child becomes a “mere object’’ and the dignity of the woman is violated for reasons of profit.
