Abortion is crime against society, says Pope Benedict

Published: 2005-12-05

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Abortion is a crime of aggression not only against the unborn, but also against society, Pope Benedict XVI said. "Children have the right to be born and to grow in the midst of a family founded on matrimony, where the parents are the first educators of children in the faith and where they can grow to full human and spiritual maturity," the pope said Dec. 3. Meeting with the presidents of Latin American bishops' committees for the family and for life, the pope urged them to work together, sharing the programs and approaches that are most successful in their countries. "Children are the major richness and the most precious good of a family," he said. "For this reason, it is necessary to help all people to be aware that the intrinsic evil of the crime of abortion, which attacks human life at its beginning, is also an aggression against society itself," the pope said.

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