Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler:
In his annual ‘State of the World’ address last week, Pope Francis touched a nerve when he denounced the “deplorable” practice of surrogate motherhood. His two sentences on that topic, in a speech that ran to over 4,700 words, prompted more headlines than his far more extensive treatment of war and peace, weapons and disarmament.
Surrogacy is, after all, a growing— and highly profitable— business. Naturally the advocates of the process snapped back at the papal rebuke. Their pleas for sympathy called attention to married couples who are sadly unable to have children, rather than to the homosexual couples who want to mimic the natural family. And the supporters of surrogacy said very little about the poor women who are enticed to rent out their wombs for cash payments. Report is here.
