Pope Benedict XVI: Abortion is never a solution

Abortion is not a solution. Thus repeated Pope Benedict XVI in his address to the Pontifical Academy for Life, at the end of their General Assembly, which examined post-abortion syndrome.
The Pope said the serious mental health problems frequently experienced by women who have had an abortion reveals the irrepressible voice of moral conscience, which suffers serious injury whenever human action betrays a person’s vocation to be truly human.
The Holy Father also said doctors must emphasize that abortion does not solve anything, but instead kills a child, and damages the mother, the father, and often entire families.
Speaking about the second central theme of the meeting - methods for retrieving stem cells from umbilical cord blood – Pope Benedict said that this is an issue with delicate ethical questions that must be addressed bearing in mind the priority to be given to the common good.
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