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"Philippine Bishops Back Pope's Remarks On Zika Contraception"
abcnews.go.com
"Despite their staunch opposition to contraceptives, Philippine Roman Catholic bishops expressed their full support Saturday to Pope Francis' remarks suggesting artificial contraception can be used by women threatened by the Zika virus.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines also backed the pope's uncompromising position against abortion, even in cases when a pregnant woman carries an unborn child afflicted with a deformity.
'We, your bishops, reiterate church teaching: no matter that the child in the womb may be afflicted with some infirmity or deformity, it can never be moral to bring a deliberate end to human life,' Archbishop Socrates Villegas, president of the bishops conference, said in a statement.
'It is never for us to judge who should live or die!' he said.
Francis, however, raised the view 'that the evil of contraception was not of the same magnitude as the evil of abortion,' Villegas said. 'Clearly, this was sound moral reasoning. The evil of stealing a few pesos cannot be compared with the evil of plunder.'"
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