“But it does make evident a social reality that we must understand as pastors and attend to with due diligence,” they stated.
The prelates warned that society cannot “wash its hands by eliminating the weakest, the nascent person.” In addition, they called for “creating the best conditions to welcome life and not throw it away.”
For the CEM, induced abortion, when decriminalized, “normalizes the throwaway culture and leaves the authorities and society as a whole without responsibility for the care and protection of all human life.”
For the bishops, the “conception and birth of a new life represent a good whose value is infinite.” They therefore emphasized that “its care and protection is not a responsibility that concerns only the pregnant woman but society as a whole.”
“It would be deplorable to institutionalize violence against the weak with the permission of the law,” they stressed.
To counteract this, solidarity and subsidiary aid is required “to families, single mothers, orphaned and/or abandoned boys and girls; of comprehensive affective sex education and the search for responsible parenting exercises.”