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You are always at the service of human life - the Pope told hospital pharmacists -. And this can in certain cases involve conscientious objection
, which is not infidelity, but on the contrary fidelity to your profession, if validly motivated. And it is also a denunciation of the injustices committed against innocent and defenseless life ".
In particular,
on abortion "I am very clear: it is a murder and it is not permissible to become accomplices"
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And "our duty is closeness: to be close to situations, especially women, so that we do not come to think of the abortion solution, because in reality it is not the solution".
"Today there is a bit of a fashion to think that it would be a good way to remove conscientious objection - the Pontiff observed 'off the cuff' -. But note that this is the ethical intimacy of every health professional, and this should never be negotiated, never ".
"It is precisely the ultimate responsibility of health professionals," he added.
