Gender reassignment operations, abortion and surrogacy are violations of human dignity, the Church says

He Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith presented this Monday”Infinite dignity“a 20-page statement 5 years in the making, after considerable revision in recent months, in which the Church lists the issues it vehemently rejects: from abortion, to gender reassignment, to surrogacy and even digital violence.

The declaration was approved on March 25 by the Pope, who ordered its publication. There, the Church reiterated its rejection of gender theory: “God created man and woman (…) A person’s gender cannot change,” he says.

“Any sex change operation, as a general rule, risks violating the unique dignity that the person has received from the moment of conception,” the document indicates.

He also insisted on his rejection of abortion, which he described as deliberate murder.

Subrogation

In a position that it had not been formulated beforestates that surrogate motherhood it violates both the dignity of the pregnant woman and the child. Although much of the focus on this practice is focused on the possible exploitation of poor womenthe Vatican document is almost more focused in the resulting child.

“The child has the right (…) to have a fully human and not artificially induced origin and to receive the gift of a life which manifests, at the same time, the dignity of those who give it and those who receive it”, indicated the document. . “In this sense, the legitimate desire to have a child cannot become a ‘right to a child’ that does not respect the dignity of the child himself as the child’s recipient. free gift of life”.

Assisted suicide and death penalty

In other notable paragraphs, the document indicates that “the critically ill or terminally ill patient requests all appropriate and necessary efforts to alleviate his suffering through adequate palliative care and avoiding any therapeutic fury or disproportionate intervention. But this effort is “entirely different, distinct, too contrary to the decision to eliminate one’s life or that of others under the weight of suffering“.

“Human life, even in painful conditions, is the bearer of a dignity that must always be respected, which cannot be lost and whose respect remains unconditional.”

“Helping the suicidal person to take his own life is, therefore, an objective attack on the dignity of those who ask for it, even if his wish is granted: one must accompany death, but not provoke it or help it in any way.

The death penalty is also defined as “a violation of the inalienable dignity of every human person, regardless of any circumstance”.