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Celso Morga asks that the Abortion Law equalize the economic amount to the mother who decides to gestate and the one who aborts


Celso Morga, Archbishop of Mérida-Badajoz. / TODAY

The Archbishop of Mérida-Badajoz considers that the new text “is to be imposed in a country that is experiencing a true demographic winter, with the birth rate at historical lows”

The Archbishop of Mérida-Badajoz, Celso Morga, has defended the draft of the new Law on Abortion that the mother who decides to continue with the gestation of her daughter or son be given an economic amount “equivalent” to the one “ da» for the mother who decides to abort.

After wondering if such a request “would be asking too much”, he also defended that for Christians, “God is the Lord of life and has entrusted to men – as the Second Vatican Council teaches – the lofty mission of preserving life and protect it with the utmost care from conception to its natural term (cf. Vatican Council II, pastoral constitution Gaudium et Spes, n.51)».

This does not mean, as he points out, “social insensitivity” to the “drama” of women, “many of them young”, who find themselves in the “dilemma” of aborting for “the most diverse” reasons, some “very serious” .

“Those of us who have faith in God, Lord of life, suffer the same or more than all good men and women for the mother who finds herself in this very serious dilemma and for the child conceived and not yet born,” he snapped in an article in the diocesan magazine ‘Iglesia en camino’, collected by Europa Press.

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After these reflections, Celso Morga asks the new Law on Abortion, «at least, that these mothers be given the possibility of truly free choice, that is, that the mother who decides to continue with the gestation of her daughter be given or her child an economic amount equivalent to that given to the mother who decides to abort. Is that asking too much? he wonders.

In his article referring to the faithful of the Archbishopric of Mérida-Badajoz, the archbishop also cites some information provided by the president of the Madrid College of Physicians, Manuel Martínez Sellés, among others, referring to the draft of the new Law on Abortion, and published in the latest issue of the magazine Alpha and Omega (from May 19 to 25, 2022), “based on scientific evidence and laws and civil recommendations of the highest level.”

Thus, Celso Morga points out that Martínez Sellés points out that “human life begins with fertilization” and that “this scientific evidence has, also in Europe, legal support, since the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that it constitutes a human embryo every human ovum from the stage of fertilization.

The archbishop also adds that Martínez Sellés indicates that the Spanish Code of Medical Ethics in its article 52.1 establishes that “the human being is an end in itself in all phases of the biological cycle, from conception to death.”

To impose

«This new law is to be imposed in a country that is experiencing a true demographic winter, with the birth rate at historical lows. All gynecologists are perfectly aware of this scientific reality and many take refuge in conscientious objection. In its logic, the new abortion law also wants to regulate this right, imposing a registry of conscientious objectors with the obligation to register in advance and in writing, if they want to exercise this right of objection, “says the archbishop, paraphrasing Martínez Sellés.

However, he adds that Professor Martínez Sellés also points out that the European Charter of Human Rights and the Spanish Constitution “recognize this right, as well as the Bioethics Committee of Spain.” “The exercise of this right must be free and confidential,” he stresses.


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