{"id":235732,"date":"2020-12-05T09:18:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T15:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=235732"},"modified":"2020-12-05T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T18:03:20","slug":"pope-francis-abortion-issue-addressed-scientifically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pope-francis-abortion-issue-addressed-scientifically\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Abortion is a ‘human problem’, not just a religious issue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to Crux<\/a>, Pope Francis wrote a letter to a priest who lives and works in the slums of Buenos Aires, in which he said that the issue of abortion is more about science than about religion, noting the debate should not be centered around opinion but scientific fact.<\/p>\n

“For me the deformation in the understanding of abortion is born mainly in considering it a religious issue,” Pope Francis said in the letter to Father Pepe Di Paola.\u00a0“The issue of abortion is not essentially religious. It is a human problem prior to any religious option. The abortion issue must be addressed scientifically.” He underlined the word “scientifically.”<\/p>\n

“Francis emphasizes this to me because he maintains that many believe that ‘no to abortion’ is rooted in an opinion and not science,” said Di Paola, who has been friends with Pope Francis for decades.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Science confirms that human life begins at fertilization<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n