UN Committee Equates Church’s Prohibition of Abortion with Torture

C-FAM’s Stefano Gennarini has a new article at First Things discussing the recent meeting in Geneva between the representative of the Holy See and the UN Committee Against Torture.

During the meeting, the US  expert Felice Gaer opined that prohibiting abortion is a form of torture, to which Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Silvano Tomasi replied that abortion itself is torture.

Gennarini discusses how the committee were unable to grasp the concept of separation of Church and State – because in their worldview, only the State exists.

The committee will publish its official report by the end of the month – and Gennarini predicts it “won’t be good for the Holy See.”

View online at: https://c-fam.org/turtle_bay/un-committee-equates-churchs-prohibition-of-abortion-with-torture/

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