Vatican City • Pope Francis denounced abortion Saturday as the “white glove” equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families to accept the children that God gives them.
Francis spoke off the cuff to a meeting of an Italian family association. The Vatican didn’t immediately provide a transcript of his remarks, but the ANSA news agency and the SIR agency of the Italian bishops’ conference quoted him as denouncing the prenatal tests that can result in parents choosing to terminate a pregnancy if the fetus is malformed or suffering other problems.
“Last century, the whole world was scandalized by what the Nazis did to purify the race.