Pope Francis: Abortion Is like ‘Hiring a Hit Man’ to ‘Take Out’ a Child

by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
Breitbart

ROME — Pope Francis used some of his strongest language to date to condemn abortion Wednesday, comparing it in a series of improvised remarks to hired murder.

Several times during his General Audience in Saint Peter’s Square, the pope added his own off-the-cuff reflections to his prepared text, likening abortion to “bumping someone off” when they get in our way.

Often the killing of human life in the womb is defended “in the name of safeguarding other rights,” the pope told crowds gathered in the square. “But how can an act that suppresses innocent and helpless life in its beginnings be therapeutic, civil, or even human?”

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