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.

Saturday, July 28, 2007

News from the Trenches

Saturday, July 21, 2007 -- Family Planning Associates, San Diego, 6:55 a.m.-11:20 a.m.

The 12-year-old took the Rosary and booklet I offered him. The woman shouted, “No! No! That’s abortion stuff. Give it back.” She took the Rosary and booklet out of the boy’s hand and gave them back to me. I told her it was just a harmless Rosary. She just shook her head as she led the boys to a parade where they would witness men fondling and kissing each other.

Read the rest of the story here: California Catholic Daily

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.”