DEACON FOR LIFE: LifeNews: Court Rejects Parents’ Appeal, Allows Hospital to Shut Off Alfie Evans’ Life Support Over Their Objections

Monday, April 16, 2018

LifeNews: Court Rejects Parents’ Appeal, Allows Hospital to Shut Off Alfie Evans’ Life Support Over Their Objections

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Monday, April 16, 2018

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• Court Rejects Parents’ Appeal, Allows Hospital to Shut Off Alfie Evans’ Life Support Over Their Objections
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. Alfie Evans’ Mother Kicked Out of His Hospital Room After Children’s Hospital Prohibits Her From Spending the Night
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A British court has rejected the final appeal from the parents of little Alfie Evans, whose life support will be shut off soon by a children’s hospital despite their objections.Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

After a British court ruled today that Alfie Evans’ parents are not able to take him to Italy for additional care and treatment that a children’s hospital in the UK will not provide, Alfie’s father Tom Evans said the legal battle to protect his son is “not over.”
Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

Alfie Evans’ parents are headed back to court today in their desperate attempt to save his life and stop a children’s hospital from yanking his life support over their objections.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

Two-Day-Old Girl Found After Her Own Parents Flushed Her Down the Toilet

Police in India are investigating an infanticide after a plumber found a newborn baby girl’s body clogging a toilet Friday in Kerala.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com

Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards to Ivanka Trump: “For God’s Sake” Support Abortion

The president of America’s largest abortion provider is taking advantage of her book tour to target the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com

Judge Rules Trump Admin Must Tell All Illegal Immigrants They Can Get Abortions

An Obama-appointed judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration must tell illegal immigrant minors that they can get abortions and direct them to the pro-abortion American Civil Liberties Union.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

Pope Francis Calls for Prayers for Alfie Evans as His Parents Head to Court to Save Him

For the second time, Pope Francis has weighed in on the battle to save little Alfie Evans.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

WATCH: Pro-Abortion Students Caught on Camera Vandalizing Pro-Life Display

Pro-life students at The College of New Jersey said they watched abortion activists try to destroy their pro-life display six times in just one day last week on campus.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com

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Supreme Court Lets City Shut Down Pro-Life Pastor Who Yelled So Loudly He Disrupted Abortions

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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.”