Stupid things religious people say

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Women didn't even know that their dignity was being trampled until this guy, who doesn't have a girlfriend or a wife, told them.

Archbishop Caccia at UN: Surrogacy violates rights, dignity of women, children

Archbishop Gabriele G. Caccia — the Holy See’s permanent observer to the U.N., and recently named as papal nuncio to the U.S. — shared his thoughts during a March 12 side event amid the multinational forum’s 70th commission on the status of women.

The side event, “Protecting Women and Children: Combating Violence and Exploitation in Surrogacy,” was organized by the Holy See and the nation of Italy, in partnership with Turkey, Paraguay and the U.N. Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls.

Catholic teaching, expressed in the 1987 instruction “Donum Vitae,” holds that surrogacy is contrary to both the unity of marriage and the dignity of human procreation, depriving the child of fundamental rights to be born and raised by biological parents, while objectifying women and eroding familial ties.

Archbishop Caccia described the issue of surrogacy as “urgent,” noting that “technology and practice” have “run laps around the law and ethics.”

In 2024, the global surrogacy market — including fertility clinics, hospitals and health care professionals — totaled an estimated $22.4 billion, with growth projected to reach just under $202 billion by 2034, according to the independent market research firm Global Market Insights.

Archbishop Caccia also stressed that surrogacy is a “quite sensitive” issue, with many viewing it as a “compassionate solution for those wishing to be parents.”

But he cautioned “the whole context must be taken into account in assessing whether this practice is compatible with respect for the dignity and rights of women and children.”

Where the practice is legal, “potential surrogates may find themselves in a perverse competition for commissioning parents,” he said. But in many cases where it is prohibited, he said, “reasonable compensation for costs or ‘gifts’ (could) disguise payments.”

https://catholicreview.org/archbishop-ca...-children/

$202 billion by 2034! Sounds more like the church is seeing a lucrative business and they want a cut. Like maybe surrogacy firms pay annually to be "blessed" by the church and hold employed clergy on their boards.