Even as Pope Francis has allowed all priests to absolve Catholics of the sin of abortion, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines said abortion “remains a serious wrong.” In a statement released Thursday, September 3, CBCP president and Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said the Church still considers abortion a mortal sin and that aborting a baby merits excommunication. In his statement, Villegas said, “Choosing to terminate innocent, unborn life is not among a woman’s options, because her right to privacy and to make decisions about herself do not extend to the life in her womb, over which she enjoys no dominion at all.”
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