In his latest plane interview, Pope Francis has doubled down on previous rhetoric which compared abortion ‘doctors’ to ‘hitmen’, by reiterating that abortion is murder and those who avail of it or commit it are ‘killing’.
When asked about whether pro abortion politicians should be allowed to receive Communion, Francis linked abortion to Europe’s demographic decline:
Abortion: it's more than a problem, it's murder, whoever has an abortion kills, no half words. Take any book on embryology for medical students. The third week after conception, all the organs are already there, even the DNA... it is a human life, this human life must be respected, this principle is so clear! To those who cannot understand, I would ask this question: is it right to kill a human life to solve a problem? Is it right to hire a hitman to kill a human life? Scientifically it is a human life. Is it right to take it out to solve a problem? That is why the Church is so hard on this issue, because if it accepts this it would be like accepting daily murder. A Head of State told me that the demographic decline began because in those years there was such a strong law on abortion that six million abortions were performed and this left a drop in births in the society of that country.
