Posted on 05/15/2019 7:02:55 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME, Italy, May 14, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― The former editor of the Vatican’s women’s magazine says she does not like abortion, but she wants to keep it legal.
Lucetta Scaraffia, 70, was permitted by Benedict XVI to found a women’s magazine for the Vatican’s principal newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano in 2012. But although she recently told a reporter for the UK Guardian that she believes abortion is bad, Scaraffia doesn’t believe it should be a crime.
“I’m against abortion because I think it’s bad, but I don’t think women should be criminalised for it,” she told interviewer Angela Giuffrida this month.
Scaraffia explained her position further in an interview with the UK’s Catholic Herald earlier this year.
“Doubtless abortion is a sin and, as such, it has to be condemned by the Catholic Church,” she said.
“But this does not mean it should be punished as a crime by the state. For women, before anything else, abortion is a wound, both physical and psychic, inflicted on themselves which they will pay for, consciously or unconsciously, during their whole life. This is already sufficient punishment, above all if one realises that the man who has made her pregnant has nothing to pay, though he has the same responsibility,” she continued.
“To punish the woman, and only her and not the man who shares the responsibility, is therefore a grave injustice. As a result, I am in favour of the decriminalisation of abortion.”
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No, its a crime. Just because they are women doesnt make it mot a crime. Its a murder for the most trivial of reasons, of personal inconvenience of anothe human being to you.
This whole exceptions for women because they are women crapola needs to end. Especially if they so desire to be treated as genuine equals.
It’s obscenely sexist to suppose that it means nothing to a man to have his child killed with or without his consent.
At age 70 this lady still lives a comic book life where all men are Lotharios? Late term abortions should be criminal acts and the law should support that unless there are special medical circumstances.
If the man pays for the abortion or facilitates it he would have legal responsibilities. The whole idea that it can’t be criminal because only the woman bears the cost is made up of whole cloth to justify an opinion.
I think there is a possibility that this is how the SCt will split the baby. The states cannot criminalize it but otherwise they can regulate abortion.
.........and giving communion to politicians who support and fund it.
She hits the nail
On the head. Been saying this for years
. “For women, before anything else, abortion is a wound, both physical and psychic, inflicted on themselves which they will pay for, consciously or unconsciously, during their whole life. This is already sufficient punishment, above all if one realises that the man who has made her pregnant has nothing to pay, though he has the same responsibility,” she continued.”
This is so very true. Known multitudes of women who 20 , 30 years later still grieve Light candles every year when baby would have been born etc
THIS needs to be told to counter the satanists who say the lies.
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