DEACON FOR LIFE: Catholic League Encourages Participation in Canadian National March for Life

Friday, April 20, 2007

Catholic League Encourages Participation in Canadian National March for Life - May 10

OTTAWA, April 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Catholic Civil Rights League has announced that it is once again co-sponsoring the annual March for Life, to take place in Ottawa May 9 to 11. The 10th annual event will include a Mass, candlelight vigil and the Rose Dinner as well as the march to Parliament Hill the afternoon of March 10.

The League has worked hard on such civil rights issues as the definition of marriage, freedom of religion and freedom of expression. The right to life from conception to natural death is the most fundamental of civil rights. In a press release, the League described this week's US Supreme Court decision, in support of legislation to limit partial birth abortions, as "an encouraging sign that small steps can be made toward restoring respect for the dignity of all human life at every stage."

"Canada stands alone in the Western world in having no abortion law whatsoever. The League hopes that events such as March for Life will help draw attention to the need to establish protection for the unborn," concluded the release.

See the official March for Life webpage here:
http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/events/Marchforlife/2007/

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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.”