DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Boston Woman Suing Abortion Practitioner and Planned Parenthood for Failing to Kill Daughter

By Hilary White

SUFFOLK, Massachusetts, March 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Boston Globe reports that a Charlestown woman is suing Planned Parenthood and one of their abortionists for child support after the latter failed to kill her daughter in 2004.

Jennifer Raper, 45, is including a second doctor in the suit who, she says, failed to inform her that she was still pregnant after the attempted abortion. The suit was filed Thursday in Suffolk Superior Court and is awaiting screening before being allowed to go to trial.

The suit alleges that Dr. Allison Bryant did not "properly" abort the child, who is now two, "causing the plaintiff to remain pregnant."

Since the nearly universal introduction of legalized abortion around the world starting in the 1960's, the phenomenon of so-called "wrongful life" or "wrongful birth" lawsuits has grown, highlighting the contradictions involved with legal abortion.

In 2003, a British Columbia doctor was ordered to pay $325,000 to two separated parents whose child he failed to diagnose with Down's syndrome before birth, and therefore in time to have her killed by abortion. The mother of the child said her daughter's condition "totally disrupted our plans," and resulted in the breakdown of the marriage.

An Italian court ruled in July 2006 that such suits were invalid in Italy, saying there could be no such thing as a "right not to be born."

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

B.C. Doctor Ordered to Pay $325,000 for 'Wrongful Birth'
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2003/jan/03013005.html

No Such Thing as "Right Not to be Born": Italian Court
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jul/06071903.html

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"In Cordibus Jesu et Mariae"

LIFE IS SACRED

An example of the traditional magisterial teaching which indicates that it is never morally licit to intentionally kill a child through abortion in order to “save the life of its mother” comes from the teaching of Pope Pius XII:

“Every human being, even the infant in the mother's womb, has the right to life immediately from God, not from the parent or any human society or authority. Therefore, there is no man, no human authority, no science, no medical, eugenic, social, economic or moral ‘indication’ that can show or give valid juridical title for direct deliberate disposition concerning an innocent human life-which is to say, a disposition that aims at its destruction either as an end in itself or as the means of attaining another end that is perhaps in no way illicit itself. Thus, for example, to save the life of the mother is a most noble end, but the direct killing of the child as a means to this end is not licit.”