EU Condemnation of Surrogacy: Naturalistic Omissions Mask Deeper Apostasy
Catholic News Agency reports on a November 2025 European Parliament meeting discussing surrogacy harms following a UN report and EU resolution condemning the practice. The article cites UN Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem’s findings of exploitation, forced abortions, and human trafficking in surrogacy arrangements. EU Parliament member Paolo Inselvini calls for recognizing surrogacy as a “universal crime,” while Alliance Defending Freedom’s Carmen Correas describes it as treating women and children as “commodities.” The report documents coerced selective reductions and abortions of disabled children, framing surrogacy through secular human rights violations rather than Catholic moral theology.
Reduction of Moral Evils to Mere Social Engineering
The article’s exclusive focus on “human rights violations” commits the naturalistic fallacy of reducing intrinsic moral evils to sociological problems. While correctly identifying surrogacy’s exploitative nature, it ignores the lex aeterna (eternal law) governing human procreation. Pius XI’s Casti Connubii (1930) condemns “any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life” (§54), establishing that reproduction outside sacramental marriage constitutes grave sin regardless of circumstances. The European Parliament’s resolution echoes pagan Stoic ethics rather than Catholic truth, reducing moral theology to utilitarian calculus about “harms” rather than affirming the divine constitution of marriage.
Omission of Divine Law and Sacramental Reality
“Surrogacy treats women and children as commodities”
This statement by Correas, while superficially aligned with Catholic teaching, dangerously implies the primary evil is economic exploitation rather than violation of the sacramentum tantum (sacramental bond) of marriage. The Council of Trent’s Tametsi decree (1563) defines marriage as “a perpetual and indissoluble bond” between one man and one woman ordered toward procreation. Surrogacy intrinsically fractures this bond by introducing third-party gestation, making it objectively sacrilegious regardless of participants’ intentions. The article’s silence on this sacramental dimension exposes the modernist tendency to replace supernatural truths with secular anthropology.
Selective Outrage Over Abortion While Ignoring Contraceptive Mentality
While rightly condemning coerced abortions in surrogacy arrangements, the report ignores how surrogacy itself flows from the contraceptive mentality condemned in Casti Connubii (§53-57). Pius XII’s 1949 address to midwives clarifies that “the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of children” and cannot be licitly separated from procreation. By focusing only on extreme cases like selective reductions, the article implicitly accepts the underlying premise that reproduction may be technologically manipulated provided coercion is minimized. This reflects the conciliar sect’s embrace of Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae §17 compromises regarding “responsible parenthood.”
UN as False Moral Arbiter
The article’s uncritical citation of UN authority reveals post-conciliar Catholicism’s subservience to globalist powers. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error #80). The UN’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrined religious indifferentism and false ecumenism, making it incapable of rendering true moral judgments. That Catholic News Agency treats Alsalem—promoter of gender ideology—as a credible voice demonstrates how the conciliar sect elevates natural law above revealed truth.
Theological Minimalism and Failure to Invoke Church Authority
Nowhere does the article reference canonical penalties for surrogacy participants. The 1917 Code of Canon Law mandates excommunication for abortionists (Canon 2350), while Canon 1063 prohibits marriage for those incapable of natural procreation. The silence on ecclesiastical discipline reflects the neo-church’s abandonment of its judicial role. As Leo XIII declared in Immortale Dei (1885), “The Church must not only be the teacher of faith, but also the guardian and interpreter of the moral law” (§6). By reducing surrogacy to a policy debate rather than a matter of eternal salvation, the report exemplifies the conciliar sect’s spiritual bankruptcy.
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European Parliament discusses harms of surrogacy after EU condemns the practice (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.11.2025