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Holy See Says Morning After Pill “Direct Attack” on the Unborn
zenit.org/en/articles/holy-see-says-morning-after-pill-direct-attack-on-the-unborn
*The so-called Morning After Pill, often called “emergency contraception” by the medical establishment, is not a “life-saving commodity,” the head of the Holy See delegation told the 66th World Health Assembly in Geneva this week. Such drugs are in reality “a direct attack” on the life of the unborn child.
In his address, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski responded to the World Health Organization’s Resolution EB132.R4, which urges member states to improve the quality, supply, and use of 13 “life-saving commodities.”
The list includes “emergency contraception.”
Archbishop Zimowski said the Holy See “strongly agrees with the need to achieve further reductions in the loss of life and prevention of illness through increased access to inexpensive interventions” but insisted that they must all be “respectful of the life and dignity of all mothers and children at all stages of life, from conception to natural death.”
While some of the WHO’s recommendations, he said, “are truly life-saving, that of ‘emergency contraception’ can hardly be labeled as such since it is well known that, when conception already has occurred, certain substances used in ‘emergency contraception’ produce an abortifacient effect.”
“For my delegation, it is totally unacceptable to refer to a medical product that constitutes a direct attack on the life of the child in utero as a ‘life-saving commodity’ and, much worse, to encourage ‘increasing use of such substances in all parts of the world,’” he said.*
Its good to see the Vatican start to speak out on this issue, as it has been in the Catholic arena quite a bit recently, with various bishops, etc. talking about it. While this is hardly magisterial in authority, it does perhaps give us some indication as to the direction that the Holy See is likely to go on this particular issue.
Hopefully, some clearer guidelines and direction of a more official nature will be forthcoming soon.
+Pax
zenit.org/en/articles/holy-see-says-morning-after-pill-direct-attack-on-the-unborn
*The so-called Morning After Pill, often called “emergency contraception” by the medical establishment, is not a “life-saving commodity,” the head of the Holy See delegation told the 66th World Health Assembly in Geneva this week. Such drugs are in reality “a direct attack” on the life of the unborn child.
In his address, Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski responded to the World Health Organization’s Resolution EB132.R4, which urges member states to improve the quality, supply, and use of 13 “life-saving commodities.”
The list includes “emergency contraception.”
Archbishop Zimowski said the Holy See “strongly agrees with the need to achieve further reductions in the loss of life and prevention of illness through increased access to inexpensive interventions” but insisted that they must all be “respectful of the life and dignity of all mothers and children at all stages of life, from conception to natural death.”
While some of the WHO’s recommendations, he said, “are truly life-saving, that of ‘emergency contraception’ can hardly be labeled as such since it is well known that, when conception already has occurred, certain substances used in ‘emergency contraception’ produce an abortifacient effect.”
“For my delegation, it is totally unacceptable to refer to a medical product that constitutes a direct attack on the life of the child in utero as a ‘life-saving commodity’ and, much worse, to encourage ‘increasing use of such substances in all parts of the world,’” he said.*
Its good to see the Vatican start to speak out on this issue, as it has been in the Catholic arena quite a bit recently, with various bishops, etc. talking about it. While this is hardly magisterial in authority, it does perhaps give us some indication as to the direction that the Holy See is likely to go on this particular issue.
Hopefully, some clearer guidelines and direction of a more official nature will be forthcoming soon.
+Pax
