VATICAN CITY, Apr 5, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo, prefect of the Pontifical Council for the Family, spoke to media in Spain, Portugal and Chile about the abortifacient nature of the “morning after pill.” Zenit News reports the Cardinal as saying: “It is very grave that an attempt is being made to confuse public opinion with ambiguous terms. The process of human life does not begin with the embryo’s adherence to the maternal womb, but before, at the very moment of conception. Hence, to talk about ‘impeding implantation in the uterus’ is nothing but a euphemism in an attempt to disguise abortion.”
Speaking about the ‘morning-after’ pill he said “Scientific studies point out that the high anti-gestation efficacy of this substance is due to the fact that it impedes the implantation of the fertilized ovum.” He said that its use was thus ethically impermissible “because of the danger for the life of the new human being yet to be implanted in the uterus.” He concluded, “The ethical disorder of using the ‘morning-after’ pill is not just in contraception, but in its abortive character.”
For more see Zenit News at: https://zenit.org/english/archive/0104/ZE010404.htm#4301