A top Vatican official has slammed a recent EU proposal to add abortion access to the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
The Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, has condemned a recent EU vote to make abortion a fundamental right as a “radical attack” on life.
“When life is attacked in such a radical way, you truly have to ask what kind of future we want to build,” said Cardinal Parolin with “great sadness in the depths of my heart…
“I feel extremely sad facing this way of approaching the situation. How can we think that abortion is a right? That it can assure a future to our society?”
“I don’t understand. I truly don’t understand.”
On 11 April, MEPs voted 336 to 163 in favour of a non-binding resolution calling for abortion to be made a human right. SPUC condemned the vote as “a shameless attack on innocent life”.
For abortion access to be added to the Charter of Fundamental Rights, all 27 member states, including pro-life Poland and Malta, must approve.
SPUC comment
A SPUC spokesperson said: “The European Union is being swept by a pro-abortion fervour seeking to impose total abortion across every nation at the behest of shameless, anti-democratic politicians.
“The Vatican is right to push back against the radical anti-life agenda that has taken over political institutions, not least the European Parliament that advances the lie that abortion is a human right – a gross upending of reality that insults the intelligence of all Europeans.
“It is vital that the European public is made aware of just how extreme their representatives are and how far they are willing to go to increase abortion everywhere.”
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