“How is it possible juxtapose in the Magna Carta of a State the right that protects the individual and the one that legitimizes his death?” he asked. Massimiliano Menichettititle of Vatican Radio and Vatican News.
The Holy See has not yet done no official comment about the process taking place in France. For the moment, the article Menichetti represents a unofficial position taking from the Vatican, but it is also known that strongly opposes to abortion.
What is France’s initiative?
France, following a initiative of the centrist president Emmanuel Macron, What it aims to do is “protect access to abortion in the face of the setbacks registered in the world”, as happened in the United States.
At the end of January, the National Assembly French adopted by overwhelming majority reform the Constitution to register the right to abortion in Magna Carta.
But the modification must still be approved by the Senatecontrolled by the opposition right-wing, which has already expressed its reluctance to the term “guaranteed freedom.”
Polls indicate that eight out of ten French people support Macron’s proposal.
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The suspected position of Pope Francis on the matter
On his visit in September to Marseilles, In the south of France, Pope Francis deplored the destiny of “unborn childrenrejected in the name of a false right to progresswhich on the contrary is a regression of the person”.
“It was a powerful message of hope, light and commitment that Francis pronounced in France. However, at the end of January, the National Assembly in Paris approved the inclusion of the right to abortion in the Constitution,” he noted. Vatican News.
Citing the pope, the media denounced “the drama of rejection of human life, which takes different forms, from the rejected life of migrants to that of unborn children.
Source: Ambito
