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, May 19, 2017

LifeNews Report: Pope Francis: No Research Justifies Killing Human Embryos

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Friday, May 19, 2017

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Top Stories• Pope Francis: No Research Justifies Killing Human Embryos, Unborn Babies “Precious in the Eyes of God”
• Abortion Advocates Say “Women and Children Will Die” Because Trump Defunded Intl Planned Parenthood
• Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Closes Two Clinics in Colorado
• Raped 10-Year-Old Girl Who Aborted Her 20-Week-Old Baby Now Undergoing Counseling

More Pro-Life News• Fertility Doctor Used His Own Sperm to Get Patients Pregnant
• Liberal Village Voice Falsely Claims “The Bible Doesn’t Prohibit Abortion”
• Planned Parenthood Just Told Girls To “Slay” In a Sick Show of Irony
• 10 Most Ironic Things Abortion Activists Have Said or Done
• Woman Has an Abortion Because She Wants to Party and Go Sailing
• Former Abortion Clinic Staffer: Here’s How We De-Emphasized Adoption to Sell Abortions
• Congressman Gives Eye-Popping Lecture on the Problems With Legalizing Assisted Suicide
• The Real “War on Women” is Christian Women Who are Tortured for Their Faith, Not Laws to Stop Abortion
• Gloria Steinem Brags About Her Abortion, But She Won’t Let You Call Her “Pro-Abortion”
• Media Pushes Commercial Surrogacy: “Carrying Someone Else’s Child Should be Celebrated, and Paid”
• Inmate Who Sued Prison for $1.5 Million Because She Couldn’t Abort Her Baby Loses Her Case
• Alaska Legislator Introduces Bill to Define Unborn Baby as a Person and Ban Abortions
• Canadian Doctors Will Leave if Forced to Participate in Assisted Suicides

Pope Francis: No Research Justifies Killing Human Embryos, Unborn Babies “Precious in the Eyes of God”
With so many unborn babies being aborted every year, it can be easy to forget that countless others are being destroyed while they still are embryos.
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Abortion Advocates Say “Women and Children Will Die” Because Trump Defunded Intl Planned Parenthood
Earlier this week, the Trump administration released an executive order expanding the Mexico City policy.
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Planned Parenthood Abortion Business Closes Two Clinics in Colorado
Two more Planned Parenthood facilities announced plans Friday to close their doors, this time in Colorado.
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Raped 10-Year-Old Girl Who Aborted Her 20-Week-Old Baby Now Undergoing Counseling
The 10-year-old Indian girl who had a 20-week abortion after being raped is undergoing counseling at a local hospital.
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Fertility Doctor Used His Own Sperm to Get Patients Pregnant
Dr Jan Karbaat was a leading fertility doctor in The Netherlands in the 1980s.

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Liberal Village Voice Falsely Claims “The Bible Doesn’t Prohibit Abortion”
An abortion advocacy group made up of Judaeo-Christian religious leaders wants the public to believe that the Bible supports their pro-abortion position.
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Planned Parenthood Just Told Girls To “Slay” In a Sick Show of IronyAh, word choice. That tiny detail, that ruiner of political careers, those Fruedian slips that often cause us to reveal our innermost feelings despite our best efforts to hide them.

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10 Most Ironic Things Abortion Activists Have Said or Done
The pro-choice movement is often illogical. Here are ten examples of the irony that abounds among its proponents.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

Woman Has an Abortion Because She Wants to Party and Go Sailing

Former Abortion Clinic Staffer: Here’s How We De-Emphasized Adoption to Sell Abortions

Congressman Gives Eye-Popping Lecture on the Problems With Legalizing Assisted Suicide

The Real “War on Women” is Christian Women Who are Tortured for Their Faith, Not Laws to Stop Abortion

Gloria Steinem Brags About Her Abortion, But She Won’t Let You Call Her “Pro-Abortion”

Media Pushes Commercial Surrogacy: “Carrying Someone Else’s Child Should be Celebrated, and Paid”
Inmate Who Sued Prison for $1.5 Million Because She Couldn’t Abort Her Baby Loses Her Case

Alaska Legislator Introduces Bill to Define Unborn Baby as a Person and Ban Abortions

Canadian Doctors Will Leave if Forced to Participate in Assisted Suicides

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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.”