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.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Schiavo's Legacy: The Value of Life in a Nation That Cheapens It

Schiavo's Legacy: The Value of Life in a Nation That Cheapens It
By Alan Sears

November 28, 2011 (Townhall.com) - Terri Schiavo would have been 48 this December 3 … not a major mile-marker among we, the living, but a cause for reflection for those who loved her, and for all those who fought so valiantly to save her, in those terrible years and months and days before she was starved to death, by court order, inMarch, 2005.

A cause for reflection because, as so many observed and warned us at the time, her death—court mandated, despite the express wishes of her parents and siblings and the best efforts of the President and Congress of the United States—marked a crucial turning point in our nation’s cultural attitude toward life.

Perhaps no judicial action since Roe v. Wade has done more to convince ordinary Americans that individual lives are expendable to those pushing for an increasingly callous medical establishment.

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