In an interview, Francis said he finds it “curious” that countries with strict child-protection allow parents to kill the unborn. But the anti-abortion line didn’t make the published version in the local paper. Hence it also wasn’t picked up on the official Vatican Radio web site.

Francis’s bold, but hidden, pro-life remark
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