Pope Francis said: "... the Lord's most powerful message: mercy." Pope Francis also said that abortion, even to save a woman’s life, is a “horrendous crime,” an “unspeakable crime,” “horrific” and “what the Mafia does – throw someone away to save another.” He has stated that abortion is the product of  “the egoism of a culture that does not love life,”  the “alleged right to one’s own body” and a “widespread mentality of profit, the ‘throwaway culture’, which has today enslaved the hearts and minds of so many.”