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# Vatican Calls Gender-Affirming Surgery, Surrogacy a Threat to Human Dignity in New Document

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_Published 2024-04-08. The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave threats to human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that violate God’s plan for human life._


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## Transcript

Vatican document on human dignity covers a lot of territory, but the two points that are getting the most attention are on call the calls of gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy are grave violations of human dignity on par with things like abortion and euthanasia. This is not a new position for the Vatican Pope Francis himself has said this before on several occasions, but it was still saddening to the trans Community who called it a outdated and harmful declaration from the very authoritative Vatican Doctrine office. Pope Francis has made reaching out to the lgbtq community really a Hallmark of his papacy and has a real problem with what he calls gender ideology.

And so this document now puts that on paper and in a very authoritative way. Turn off is presented this document today at a press conference after. A previous document which called for the allowance of blessings for same-sex Union. So he acknowledged that there were two different messages coming out of the Vatican, but he said they're consistent. They are both consistent with Pope francis's message of welcome. But his belief that that men and women are born that way. I'm not coming together when there is sex involved it is to put a pair of procreation creation of New Life.

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