POPE CALLS FOR SURROGACY BAN
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On Monday, Pope Francis demanded that surrogacy be outlawed worldwide, calling the practice of a woman bearing another person’s child “deplorable.”
The action of a woman having a baby for another woman who is unable to do so herself is said to be surrogacy, according to the Cambridge Dictionary.
The 87-year-old pope called it a “grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child” in a New Year’s address to diplomats at the Vatican.
“The path to peace calls for respect for life,” declared the head of the global Catholic Church in a speech that was mostly devoted to pleas for an end to hostilities around the globe.
This began “with the life of the unborn child in the mother’s womb, which cannot be suppressed or turned into an object of trafficking,” he said.
“In this regard, I deem deplorable the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood, which represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child based on the exploitation of situations of the mother’s material needs.
“A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract. Consequently, I express my hope for an effort by the international community to prohibit this practice universally.”
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