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.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

ALL Pro-Life Today: Taxpayer-Funded Crimes Against Humanity

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

COMMENTARY

Taxpayer-Funded Crimes Against Humanity

Judie Brown When I see a photo of Planned Parenthood Federation of America's president, Cecile Richards, with the president of the United States, Barack Obama, my stomach begins to churn. What follows are heartburn and a nagging sensation inviting me to lose my lunch. Read today's commentary to learn why.

[ Read the full commentary here. ]

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HEADLINES

ALL: Investigation reveals sterilizations through Catholic Healthcare West

American Life League issued a report linking one of the nation's leading Catholic hospital chains with sterilization. Catholic Healthcare West (CHW) is the parent company of St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, where an abortion took place in late 2009. ALL's findings include:

CHW institutions have provided referrals for tubal ligations and vasectomies
Health care coverage at CHW institutions include provisions for contraception
CHW institutions have provided grants to organizations that promote abortion, homosexuality, and contraception

"At least one CHW member hospital promotes the nation's largest abortion chain, Planned Parenthood, on its web site, and another lists the provision of contraceptives as a service," the report states. "Twelve CHW members (as of 2001) performed tubal ligations," and "20 members currently refer for vasectomies by staff physicians on their web sites."

[Read the full report here.]

A beautiful thing: Dr. Carlo Bellieni's mission to the unborn
EWTN
Dr. Carlo Bellieni, a neonatal doctor in Siena, Italy, is working tirelessly to change the way the world looks at unborn children. That a fetus is alive and has human DNA give the child membership in the human species "and therefore give them the right to be a human being," said the neonatologist, refuting such claims. He explained his case in simple terms. "There is no reasonable person who can say that 'I was never an embryo'. It's clear that I was once an embryo, just as I am a human being. There was never a moment in which I was not me, but some say that certain states of the human being are worth less than others." Knowing that the fetus is also a human being is not a question of religion, he said, but of science and biology.

Woman sues for 'exit guide' in suicide
One News Now
A Georgia woman has filed suit in federal court for the right to assisted suicide. The New Jersey-based Final Exit Network, which is alleged to have helped people commit suicide, stopped its activities in Georgia when four members were arrested in connection with a June 2008 suicide. The four are charged with violating Georgia law in the death of John Delmer, 58, of Cumming, who died of asphyxiation after inhaling helium in the presence of two of them.

Lineman steps out of the trenches to save a stranger's life
NY Times

In November 2009, Warren Sallach, a road maintenance worker from Brenham, Tex., received a blood stem cell transplant to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in San Antonio. He has since learned that the anonymous donor was Matt Hoffman, a senior defensive end at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J. Hoffman had given up the final football game of his junior season to undergo the donation procedure in Philadelphia.

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