"I consider despicable the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood, which represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child, based on the exploitation of situations of the mother's material needs," he said.
Saying a child is a gift and 'never the basis of a commercial contract,' he called for a global ban on surrogacy 'to prohibit this practice universally.'
In his geopolitical roundup, Francis singled out Russia by name in noting that 'large-scale war waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine' had ground on.
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