The 20-page document also puts surrogacy on the same 'level' as abortion and euthanasia
The Vatican has declared sex change operations and surrogacy “grave threats” to human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that violate God’s plan for human life. The Vatican’s doctrine office issued Infinite Dignity, a 20-page declaration that has been in the works for five years, on Monday.
It distinguished between transitioning surgeries, which it rejected, and “genital abnormalities” that are present at birth or that develop later. Those abnormalities can be “resolved” with the help of health care professionals, it said. The new document denounces “as contrary to human dignity the fact that, in some places, not a few people are imprisoned, tortured, and even deprived of the good of life solely because of their sexual orientation”. The document is something of a repackaging of previously articulated Vatican positions.
“Considering this, the legitimate desire to have a child cannot be transformed into a ‘right to a child’ that fails to respect the dignity of that child as the recipient of the gift of life.”
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