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.

Friday, July 6, 2007

Pro-Life Youth Group Demonstrates Outside Clinton Offices in Los Angeles

By Peter J. Smith

LOS ANGELES, July 6, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A pro-life youth organization held a sit-in demonstration today outside the campaign offices of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, not only to protest her radical support for abortion, but to train future leaders of the pro-life movement.

"Hillary has a radical pro-abortion agenda. Our generation has seen enough women hurt and enough children killed, and we are not going to support a candidate who stands for the killing of unborn children and the scarring of women and families," Kortney Blythe, spokeswoman for Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, told LifeSiteNews.com.

The Survivors, a Christian pro-life organization that educates high school and college age youth in pro-life activism, held the 1 PM protest in front of Clinton's campaign offices at 600 Lafayette Park Rd. in downtown Los Angeles.

"It's not just Senator Clinton, it's any pro-abortion candidate whether Democrat or Republican or whatever," said Blythe. "If they support abortion, we want to be there to show what they support."

Over 40 youth ages 14 - 30 from all over the United States participated in the sit-in protest as part of learning the ins and outs of pro-life activism from the June 27-July 8 Survivors annual leadership training camp in southern California.

Blythe said the new pro-life leaders will have experience defending the pro-life position, running events, and knowing their rights as activists after leaving the camp. Participants gained knowledge and experience by discussing the pro-life position, side-walk counseling, viewing the "Show the Truth" display, assisting at a maternity home and by participating in various demonstrations.

Survivors will plan more demonstrations for the future, Blythe says, but the real effect of Friday's protest will be felt when these 40 youth return as pro-life leaders for their hometowns.

"We have people from our camp from all over the United States, and they'll be going out back to their home bases. We've taught them how to run an event, so they'll be putting on their own events when politicians or pro-abortion leaders show up in their town."

The main issue for the Survivors is that Senator Clinton and other pro-abortion politicians state that they want to protect women and children, but "fail to represent the 50 million that have been violently killed by abortion and the ones that will continue to be killed by legal abortion."

"We hope to let them know that they're not going to get the support of a generation that has seen the effect of abortion," Blythe firmly stated. "That's seen 1/3 of their generation killed by abortion and seen their friends and family hurt because of abortion. We're not going to support them, not going to vote for them, and not going to let them pretend like they care for women."

Those who wish to learn more about the Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust may visit their website here: http://www.survivors.la/

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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.”