Rome, Italy, Feb 25, 2009 / 21:09 pm
The president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, said this week a proposed reform of the abortion laws in Spain "attacks society itself" and goes "against the common good."
In an interview with Europa Press, the cardinal said the Church would always oppose any law that legalizes or decriminalizes abortion because it is nothing other than the "killing of a human being," regardless of when it takes place during pregnancy.
"The state has the obligation to preserve life. This is the vision that prevailed 15 or 20 years ago, while today the governments have become victims of ideology and of a misunderstood vision of freedom" that leads us "to chose what destroys us" and ends up simply becoming "license," Cardinal Lozano said.
He connected the tendency to expand abortion with the "sexual revolution" and the "trivialization of sex," which in addition to separating "procreation from the sexual act," turns sex into a "passing hobby whose ‘bad consequences’ must be avoided."