Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, apostolic nuncio to the U.S. and permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations (UN), issued a statement calling for the complete eradication of surrogacy, a practice that Catholic teaching deems incompatible with “respect for the dignity and rights of women and children.”
He lamented that “many women who become surrogates cite economic need as their primary reason for doing so” and posed the question of “whether the surrogacy industry could survive if poverty were eradicated.”
The statement also pointed out that surrogacy entails the commodification of children and declared this to be “at odds with a flourishing and just society in which children can thrive.” Archbishop Caccia finished by quoting the words of Pope Leo XIV: “By transforming gestation into a negotiable service, [surrogacy] violates the dignity both of the child, who is reduced to a ‘product,’ and of the mother, exploiting her body and the generative process, and distorting the original relational calling of the family.”
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