Madrid, Spain, Mar 31, 2008 / 14:23 pm
Bishop Juan Jose Asenjo Pelegrina has called for abortion to be eliminated “from all of our laws” because “human life has a sacred value that we all must recognize, respect and promote because it is a gift from God.”
In a reflection written for Pro-Life Day in Spain observed on March 31, Bishop Asenjo noted that there are many threats to human life, especially from abortion, which is “the voluntary and willful elimination of a human being at the request of his or her progenitors.”
This situation is part of the tragedy of the acceptance of abortion “without blinking by a group of our fellow citizens in the name of progress and women’s liberation,” he stressed, noting that its legality cannot be used as an excuse, “because not everything that is legal is moral.”
After warning that recent statistics show that social acceptance of euthanasia is spreading throughout Spain, Bishop Asenjo stressed the need to defend life “from its beginnings in fertilization until its natural end.”