Pope Francis viewed abortion as the use of a contract killer, questioning whether the killing was legal.
The Pope strongly condemned abortion, comparing it to “hiring a professional killer”, asking the question: “Is it legal, is it right to take a human life to solve a problem?”
Speaking about the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the right to abortion, the Pope stressed that he respects this decision, but does not have enough information to speak about it from a legal point of view.
And his view of the debate in the United States on the exclusion of communion from Catholic politicians who reject abortion but support the right to choose others, referring in particular to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose Archbishop of San Francisco refuses to receive communion but receives it in In one of the parishes of Washington, the Pope said: “When the church loses its pastoral nature, when the bishop loses his pastoral nature, this leads to a political problem. That’s all I can say”.
Source: Vatican website.