The Vatican has issued a stinging condemnation of the “deplorable” practice of human surrogacy, calling for its universal prohibition. | Faith
The Vatican has issued a stinging condemnation of the “deplorable” practice of human surrogacy, calling for its universal prohibition.
In its declaration titled Dignitas Infinita, released Monday, the Vatican’s doctrinal office (DDF) said that surrogacy reduces the child to the status of “a mere object.”
The text goes on to denounce “so-called surrogate motherhood,” which disrespects human life, turning the unborn child in the mother’s womb into “an object of trafficking.”
Surrogacy “represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child,” it asserts, and relies on “the exploitation of situations of the mother’s material needs.”
“A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract,” the declaration states, citing Pope Francis.
Every human child possesses an “intangible dignity” that is clearly expressed at every stage of his or her life, the DDF declares, from the very “moment of conception.
