Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Heroic News: “Not defective, but dignified” plus 4 more




 
Posted: 07 May 2013 12:25 PM PDT
A pro-life association in Costa Rica has launched a campaign to raise awareness about the plight of babies with anencephaly, who are often used to justify calls for the legalization of abortion in Latin America.
 
Posted: 07 May 2013 12:20 PM PDT
Pro-life Utah Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee, along with 10 co-sponsors, introduced an as yet unnumbered resolution calling for Congress to “investigate and correct abusive, unsanitary, and illegal abortion practices.”
 
Posted: 07 May 2013 06:05 AM PDT
We are becoming a society in which “choice” and self-defined identities trump once-common values and traditional beliefs. But contrary to the rhetoric of its defenders, this shift is not a simple advance for freedom. The privileging of “choice” above all else in fact requires re-engineering the human person and society as a whole, and this will inevitably involve a great deal of coercion.
 
Posted: 07 May 2013 05:37 AM PDT
Williams had paid her $1,200 and was prepared for her abortion. She was given two pills to dilate her cervix and instructed to wait for her abortionist, Pierre Renelique, to arrive. The abortionist, however, was running late. Williams sat for hours, in increasing pain. She ended up delivering a living, breathing premature baby. As the newborn baby girl, who had black hair and brown eyes and weighed approximately 1 to 2 pounds, lay on the floor kicking amid the ensuing commotion, one of the owners of the clinic, Belkis Gonzalez, picked her up and threw her into a red plastic biohazard bag, where she eventually died.
 
Posted: 07 May 2013 03:13 AM PDT
While the fight to preserve life is often centered on abortion and capital punishment, the future Pope Francis also warned against a more subtle form of disregard for human dignity: what he called "covert euthanasia."