Pope Leo Pays Tribute to Jérôme Lejeune, Defender of Human Dignity
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Pope Leo XIV has warned this Monday of the risk of a drift towards 'chromosomal racism', when babies likely to have genetic diseases or Down syndrome are aborted. "A doctor should never allow himself, based on laboratory algorithms, to decide on the life of such an embryo or such an older person," he explained during a meeting in Rome with representatives of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation, on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of this Fre…
"The value of a person does not depend on what he realizes or produces. (ANSA)
Pope Leo warns no doctor should ever 'decide on the life of an embryo'
Pope Leo XIV defended the dignity of human life at every stage and warned about the risks of a medicine subordinated to technical or utilitarian criteria at the Vatican on Monday.“No doctor should ever allow himself, on the basis of laboratory algorithms, to decide on the life of an embryo or of an elderly person,” the pope said June 22 during an audience with members of the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation.“Medicine must never become a servant of prog…
Received at the Vatican for the centenary of the birth of the French geneticist Jérôme Lejeune, the members of the foundation that bears his name heard Leo XIV support, Monday, June 22, 2026, their interventions "to the public authorities". A meaningful speech at three months from his arrival in France, where the debate on aid to die is not decided.
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