Abortion Doesn’t Protect Women’s Human Rights, Vatican Official Says (Catholic News Services)
It is a contradiction to claim that promoting access to safe abortions is somehow protecting the human rights of women and girls, a Vatican representative said. “In fact, abortion denies the unborn child his or her most basic right — to life itself,” said Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, Vatican observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva.
Archbishop Jurkovic spoke May 25 at the World Health Assembly, a meeting of the member states of the World Health Organization to set W.H.O. policies and programs. He was addressing one of the agenda items of the May 21-26 meeting, specifically on the global strategy for the health of women, children and adolescents.
Carol Glatz, Catholic News Services, May 25, 2018.
