The European Parliament is expected to vote on a report calling on EU member states to ensure universal access to safe and legal abortions. <\/p>\n
The Matic report, as it's being called, comes in response to what it says was a disruption to \u201caccess to essential medical services such as contraception and abortion care\u201d due to the Covid-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n
Ahead of a vote, the Commission of the European Bishops' Conferences released a document to address the report's \u201cone-sided\u201d treatment of the issue of abortion, emphasizing that abortion is not a human right. <\/p>\n
FR. MANUEL BARRIOS PRIETO<\/strong> Fr. Manuel Barrios Prieto is the General Secretary of the Commission of European Bishops' Conferences. He says society must take a more holistic view of sexual health that doesn't solely hinge on abortion. <\/p>\n FR. MANUEL BARRIOS PRIETO<\/strong> Earlier this month, a delegation from the European Bishops' conferences travelled to Rome to meet with Pope Francis. <\/p>\n Although talks on abortion were not on their agenda, the statement from the European bishops shows it remains a topic of concern to the Church in Europe. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n JM<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" June 23, 2021. The Commission for the European Bishops' Conferences released a statement ahead of a controversial vote in the EU parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/C87Bc81wOVc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/beureporteng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/beureportint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGeneral Secretary, Commission of European Bishops' Conferences
\n\u201cThe main danger with this kind of resolution proposal is that it creates a certain mentality, or it tends to make people think that abortion is a human right, that it belongs to the right of human health.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n
\nGeneral Secretary, Commission of European Bishops' Conferences
\n\u201cWe have to try to improve sexual education and sexual health in a broad sense, but once this is narrowed or reduced to just the question of abortion, and allowing abortion, and seeing abortion as a human right, I think we go in a very unilateral direction, as we say in the statement we made.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n