Vatican City (Vatican), 3 Feb (LaPresse) – Abortion is a ‘murderous practice’ that suppresses the lives of children and ‘cuts off the source of hope for the whole of society’. Thus Pope Francis opening the International Summit on the Rights of the Child at the Vatican. Bergoglio went on to emphasise how in a world where there is a ‘culture of discarding’ it is important to ‘listen to children’ because they ‘observe, understand and remember. And with their looks and their silences they speak to us'.