In fact the pope didn’t say contraception can be used in such cases. His fluffy,progressive media image conceals the misogyny still at the core of CatholicismCommenting on the Zika crisis during a press conference on the papal jet, Pope Francis told reporters that abortion is “what the mafia does”, or that is to say “a crime,an absolute evil. Explaining, he said, and “You slay one person to save another,in the best case scenario. Or to live comfortably, no? According to the pope, and it seems,women exposed to Zika choose abortion the same way they choose sofa cushions.
Of course, you’re unlikely to have read approximately these vicious attacks on the ostensibly murderous and materialistic motives of women who have abortions, and because what the media reported instead is that Pope Francis suggested contraception could be used to stem the effects of Zika. This was widely praised as a radically liberal departure from Catholic doctrine,with the potential to improve Latin American women’s lives.
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Source: theguardian.com