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.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

ABORTION IS DANGEROUS

Here's a News Clip that caught my eye. Well, guess what! Abortion kills the baby 100% of the time, unless it is botched! When are we going to stop murdering babies and killing their mother's too?

Deacon John

AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA -

Abortion is dangerous, mortal for many African women

Rome (Agenzia Fides) -

In Africa 4.2 million dangerous abortions are carried out every year and in 30,000 cases the mother dies. Abortion can kill when it is performed by non qualified personnel and/or in non hygienic conditions. Moreover it can often leave the mother infertile.In South Africa, according to the national health department every year about 50,000 South African women undergo legal abortion. Health services vary from province to province, depending on levels of development and poverty. All these centres need to be better equipped with personnel and means. In many of the poorest rural areas of South Africa sexual questions and problems are not even discussed.

(AP) (21/3/2007 Agenzia Fides; Righe:17; Parole:184)

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.”