{"id":276309,"date":"2022-09-18T15:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T20:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=276309"},"modified":"2022-09-16T19:12:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T00:12:43","slug":"pope-francis-abortion-sacrifices-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pope-francis-abortion-sacrifices-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Abortion sacrifices children on the &#8216;altar of profit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Pope Francis, a longtime advocate for the dignity of all life, has once again spoken out against abortion.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1569986572942024706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new tweet<\/a>, the pope condemned the culture of death as being driven solely by money. &#8220;Each day children, born and unborn, migrants and elderly persons, are discarded,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Many brothers and sisters die sacrificed on the altar of profit, amid indifference. Yet every human being is sacred. It is the task of religions to remind the world of this!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The warning comes on the heels of the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/2020-planned-parenthood-record-breaking-abortions-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annual report<\/a> from Planned Parenthood, the nation&#8217;s largest abortion chain. As in years past, Planned Parenthood recorded an increase in the number of abortions it committed &#8212; all while its legitimate health care services <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-womens-health-plummeting-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plummeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Each day children, born and unborn, migrants and elderly persons, are discarded. Many brothers and sisters die sacrificed on the altar of profit, amid indifference. Yet every human being is sacred. It is the task of religions to remind the world of this!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pope Francis (@Pontifex) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pontifex\/status\/1569986572942024706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pope-francis-catholic-biden-abortion-incoherence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Pope Francis: Catholic President Joe Biden\u2019s abortion support is \u2018incoherence\u2019<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood ends hundreds of thousands of lives each year and is swimming in money. It received $633.4 million in taxpayer dollars while enjoying $133.7 million in excess revenue over its expenses. Since the year 2000, it has received $9.3 billion in taxpayer dollars. In the same time period, it recorded over $1.7 billion in excess revenue over expenses. In 2020-2021, its net assets reached $2.5 billion, a 239% increase since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>But how much is Planned Parenthood receiving for committing abortions? According to its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/learn\/ask-experts\/how-much-does-an-abortion-cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>, &#8220;an abortion can cost up to $750, but it\u2019s often less.&#8221; Even assuming they are charging women <em>much<\/em> less for abortions &#8212; say, $250 &#8212; at 383,460 abortions committed in the year 2020, that nets them a whopping $95,865,000.<\/p>\n<p>Sacrificing children at the altar of profit, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis has never minced words on the topic of abortion, repeatedly condemning it. Last year, for example, he did not hesitate to make it clear during an interview that abortion is murder, every time it is committed. \u201cAbortion is more than a problem. Abortion is homicide. Abortion&#8230; without being ambiguous: whoever has an abortion kills,\u201d he said, and added, \u201cIt is a human life, period. And this human life must be respected. This principle is so clear, and to those who cannot understand, I would ask two questions: is it right to kill a human life to solve a problem? Scientifically, it is a human life. The second question: is it right to hire a hitman to solve a problem?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis, a longtime advocate for the dignity of all life, has once again spoken out against abortion. In a new tweet, the pope condemned the culture of death as being driven solely by money. &#8220;Each day children, born and unborn, migrants and elderly persons, are discarded,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Many brothers and sisters die sacrificed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":252710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,3473],"tags":[19,19012,386,913,14,3292],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pope Francis: Abortion sacrifices children on the &#039;altar of profit&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pope Francis condemns abortion: &#039;Many die sacrificed on the altar of profit...every human being is sacred. 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