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Vatican City, Holy See | AFP | Pope Francis on Wednesday compared having an abortion to hiring a “contract killer”.
“Interrupting a pregnancy is like eliminating someone,” Francis said in an address to worshippers in the Vatican.
“Getting rid of a human being is like resorting to a contract killer to solve a problem,” he added.
“Is it just to resort to a contract killer to solve a problem?”
His comments departed from the prepared text for his homily delivered during his weekly audience on Saint Peter’s Square.
In his address, the Argentine pontiff complained of a “depreciation of human life”.
He cited wars, exploitation and what he called a culture of wastefulness, as well as abortion.
“How can an act that suppresses innocent life be therapeutic, civil or even human?” he asked.
Francis this year opposed a bill that would have legalized abortion in Argentina.
In August a lay campaign group said thousands of Argentine Catholics had renounced their membership of the church to protest against his opposition to the bill.
It is crazy to bring into this world human beings that we can not look after. It is a greater disservice to bring into the world people who will actually suffer. What happiness does it bring to people to see clearly unhappy people toiling to get by.
Abortion is a reality. A woman who does not want to bring forth a child will do any thing to stop the pregnancy. It is more dangerous to allow these women do it themselves without medical knowledge because you lose both the woman and the born.
That is why there are clinics that help to keep at least one alive.