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Panelists called for “increased awareness and concrete steps at the U.N. level to abolish surrogacy and uphold human dignity.”
Dignity “belongs to the person… simply because he or she exists and is willed, created, and loved by God,” the document explains.
Pope Francis called surrogacy “deplorable” and called for a global ban on the exploitative practice of “so-called surrogate motherhood.”
A group of lawyers, doctors, psychologists, and others from five continents gathered in Casablanca, Morocco, on March 3 to call for the repeal of all laws allowing or tolerating surrogacy around the world.
Pope Francis also spoke about the challenges facing families today.