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.

Thursday, May 10, 2018

LifeNews: 104-Year-Old Man Kills Himself in Assisted Suicide

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Thursday, May 10, 2018

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Top Stories
• 104-Year-Old Man Kills Himself in Assisted Suicide at Swiss Euthanasia Clinic
• Alfie Evans Will be Buried Next Week in Private Funeral, Died After Hospital Yanked His Life Support Without Consent
• Abortionists Robert Rho and Kermit Gosnell Killed Women in Botched Abortions, That’s Not All They Have in Common
• Father Who Raped His 11-Year-Old Daughter, Took Her for Abortion, May Finally Go to Prison
More Pro-Life News
• Bill Nye the Abortion Guy Pushes Population Control at Planned Parenthood Event
• Billboards Call Abortion “Systemic Racism,” Highlight How Abortions Target Black Babies
• “Handmaid’s Tale” Tries to Shame Pro-Lifers By Literally Keeping Woman Chained Barefoot and Pregnant
• Grandmother Painfully Remembers Her Aborted Grandchild: “My Granddaughter Would Have Been Six By Now”
• Google Ban on Pro-Life Ads Ahead of Ireland Vote is “Attempt to Rig Election” Pro-Lifers Say
• Premature Baby Was Accidentally Decapitated Inside His Mother’s Womb
• Abortion Activist Rachel Maddow Only Cares About Babies If They’re Children of Illegal Immigrants
• More Than Half of Babies With Down Syndrome are Already Killed in Abortions in Ireland
• I’m Pro-Life But I Have a Lot in Common With Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards
• Government Policies Against Pain Medications for Patients are Promoting Assisted Suicide
• Minnesota House Approves Bill Allowing Women to See Ultrasound Of Their Baby Before Abortion

104-Year-Old Man Kills Himself in Assisted Suicide at Swiss Euthanasia Clinic

The 104-year-old man who planned to take his life in an assisted suicide in Switzerland at a euthanasia clinic has reportedly killed himself. Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

Alfie Evans Will be Buried Next Week in Private Funeral, Died After Hospital Yanked His Life Support Without Consent

The family of Alfie Evans has announced today that his parents will hold a private funeral next week for their son, who was killed after a children’s hospital removed his life support without their permission.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

Abortionists Robert Rho and Kermit Gosnell Killed Women in Botched Abortions, That’s Not All They Have in Common

Robert Rho and Kermit Gosnell were both little-known abortionists who ran abortion facilities that operated under the radar of regulators as well as the general public until their arrests and ensuing trials thrust them into the public spotlight.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

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Father Who Raped His 11-Year-Old Daughter, Took Her for Abortion, May Finally Go to Prison

A father of an 11-year-old girl in West Virginia who was arrested and ultimately indicted after arranging for an abortion following a case of pregnancy following incest may head to prison — but not for the initial crime.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com

Bill Nye the Abortion Guy Pushes Population Control at Planned Parenthood Event

Bill Nye “the Science Guy,” once the beloved figure of the popular PBS children’s show, fundraised and gave a talk for Planned Parenthood of South Texas Tuesday in which he renewed calls for population control in response to climate change.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com

Billboards Call Abortion “Systemic Racism,” Highlight How Abortions Target Black Babies

When a Cleveland abortion facility began posting billboards in minority neighborhoods earlier this year, pro-life advocates knew they had to respond.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

“Handmaid’s Tale” Tries to Shame Pro-Lifers By Literally Keeping Woman Chained Barefoot and Pregnant

Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale prides itself on painting a dark image for women in Trump’s America, even though the show has absolutely nothing in common with Trump’s actual America.
Click to Read at LifeNews.com

Grandmother Painfully Remembers Her Aborted Grandchild: “My Granddaughter Would Have Been Six By Now”

Now that my wife and I have grandkids we realize that grandparents rarely get talked about in the abortion context

Click to Read at LifeNews.com

Google Ban on Pro-Life Ads Ahead of Ireland Vote is “Attempt to Rig Election” Pro-Lifers Say

Premature Baby Was Accidentally Decapitated Inside His Mother’s Womb

Abortion Activist Rachel Maddow Only Cares About Babies If They’re Children of Illegal Immigrants

More Than Half of Babies With Down Syndrome are Already Killed in Abortions in Ireland

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I’m Pro-Life But I Have a Lot in Common With Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards

Government Policies Against Pain Medications for Patients are Promoting Assisted Suicide

Minnesota House Approves Bill Allowing Women to See Ultrasound Of Their Baby Before Abortion

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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.”