Vatican Tells France There’s No “Right” to Kill Babies in Abortions

As the French Parliament prepares for a final vote on making abortion a right, the Vatican issued a statement today confirming there is no right to kill babies in abortions.

As LifeNews has reported, President Emmanuel Macron of France wants to make killing babies in abortions a right under the French Constitution.

Last year, During his speech for the 65th anniversary of the French Constitution, Macron called for abortion to be included “as soon as possible” in the country’s Magna Carta.

Macron doesn’t want to adopt an entirely new constitution for the European country but he wants the current constitution amended to include a right to end the lives of unborn children. France first legalized abortions in 1975 and allows babies to be killed up to 14 weeks.

But today the Vatican said there is no right to take away the right to life of human beings.

“The Pontifical Academy for Life recalls that in the era of universal human rights, there can be no ‘right’ to take a human life,” the Vatican’s pro-life office said in a statement.

The group appealed to “all governments and all religious traditions to do their best so that, in this phase of history, the protection of life becomes an absolute priority”.

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“The particular life situations and difficult and tragic contexts of our time must be addressed on the basis of a law which seeks above all to protect the weakest and most vulnerable,” it added.

In France, making abortion a right could allow abortions up to birth for any reason since any limits would likely be interpreted by a court as contravening that so-called right.

Last November, the National Assembly approved making abortion a right but the Senate modified the measure to make abortion a “freedom,” when is less produced under French law.

Earlier this year, during the annual March for Life in Paris, about 20,000 people urged lawmakers to reject the pro-abortion change.

Nicolas Bauer, associate researcher at the European Centre for Law and Justice, said the proposed amendment is a radical move by pro-abortion leftists.

“By inserting it into the constitution, the left wants to make abortion sacred as if it were a value at the heart of the national ‘social contract,’” Bauer told the Catholic News Agency last year. “From being a crime, abortion has become a banal medical act, and the left now is seeking to make it a fundamental right, superior to every other right.”

According to the French Ministry of Health, there were 222,000 abortions in 2020 that ended the lives of babies before birth.

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