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Vatican City against abortion The country's editorial director said on Saturday that attention should be paid to other potentially life-threatening issues such as easy access to guns, poverty and rising childbirth mortality.
In a media editorial on the US Supreme Court's decision to terminate the constitutional right to abortion, Andrea Tornieri said that those who oppose abortion cannot choose and choose the issue of abortion. I did.
"For example, being a lifetime means worrying about increasing the mortality rate of women due to motherhood," he writes.
He quoted statistics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, stating that overall birth mortality increased, with black women mortality almost three times higher. rice field.
"Being for life always means asking how to help women welcome a new life," he wrote.
He also cites statistics from the Harvard Psychiatry Review, showing that the United States has a much lower percentage of paid parental leave compared to other rich countries.
"Being for life also means always protecting it from the threat of firearms. Firearms are unfortunately the leading cause of death for children and adolescents in the United States. "He wrote.
The Roman Catholic Church teaches that abortion is a murder because life begins at the moment of conception and ends with natural death.
Pope Francis compared abortion to "hiring a hitman" to eliminate the problematic.
However, he sought to steer the American Catholic Church so that abortion would not be seen as a single comprehensive life issue in the country's so-called cultural war.
He said the death penalty, gun control, family support, and immigration are also life issues.
The Vatican Life Academy praised the US Supreme Court's decision on Friday and called on the world to think about life issues, but social changes to help women keep their children. Also asked.
Lifelong Catholic US President Joe Biden condemned the ruling, calling it a "sad day" for the United States and labeling the court's conservatives as "extreme." (Report by Philip Pullella, edited by Mike Harrison)
