“That then the law can, indeed must, be improved in the direction of more comprehensive protection of the unborn child is more than desirable, taking care to avoid the risk of aggravating the situation, as has unfortunately happened in some cases.”
In the past, the academy’s statement said, Paglia had spoken “about the protection and promotion of life at all stages of development (from conception to death) and in all situations,” such as “children, women, prisoners, people sentenced to death, migrants, the elderly.”
The Pontifical Academy for Life has recently courted controversy over a book and statements made on social media.
In late June, the academy’s official Twitter account began promoting a Vatican-published book synthesizing a 2021 seminar on ethics, in which a participant discussed “the possible legitimacy of contraception in certain cases.”
The pontifical academy said in an Aug. 8 press release that the seminar discussed “all the issues related to the ethics of…
Read the full article:
Open the full article on the www.catholicnewsagency.com site
