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Tuesday May 15, 2001
VATICAN REPEATEDLY DENOUNCES MORNING AFTER PILL AS ABORTIVE
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BARCELONA, Spain, May 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The Vatican has repeatedly warned about the abortifacient nature of the morning-after pill which is deceptively called "emergency contraception." Zenit News reported that the warning was made again recently at the 12th National Congress of Hospitals in Spain last week. Archbishop Javier Lozano Barragán, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Pastoral Care, said that scientific studies prove the abortive nature of the pill. "Anything else that attacks life is not licitly acceptable," he said.
As early as 1999, Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Director of the Holy See Press Office, made public a declaration last September in which he said, "the Holy See has opposed introduction of the promotion of so-called 'emergency contraception', because it considers such material an abortifacient." In October 2000 the Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life released a document saying, "it is clear that in fact the morning-after pill is nothing other than an abortion procured by chemical means." And this April, the Vatican's Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo, prefect of the Pontifical Council for the Family, warned against the deceptive language used to promote the pill falsely as a contraceptive.
For more on the most recent warning see Zenit at: http://zenit.org/english/archive/0105/ZE010511.htm#5528
For related LifeSite coverage see: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/sept/000907a.html http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/oct/001031.html http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/apr/010405.html
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