“Your
baby doesn’t have any viability. It is only going to live while it is
in you, and in the meantime, you are very sick and need to get to the
hospital.”
|
In
an audience with members of an international Marian movement, Pope
Francis warned that the sacrament of marriage has been reduced to a mere
association, and urged participants to be witnesses in a secular world.
|
Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.