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 17, 2018

LifeNews: Abortion Activist Cecile Richards Receives Human Rights Award - Woman Flying Home to Ireland to Vote Against Abortion Because the “Most Fundamental Human Right is Right to Life”

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Thursday, May 17, 2018

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Top Stories
• Abortion Activist Cecile Richards Receives Human Rights Award
• WNBA Partners With Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz for “Women’s Empowerment” Event
• Priest Says Abandoned Baby With Down Syndrome is a “Gift From God”
• Support for Legalizing Abortion in Ireland Collapses, Less Than Half Want to Overturn 8th Amendment

More Pro-Life News
• Unborn Babies With Down Syndrome Can be Aborted Up to 24 Weeks, This Must be Stopped
• 26 Psychiatrists Admit 97% of Abortions are Done for False “Mental Health” Reasons
• Woman Flying Home to Ireland to Vote Against Abortion Because the “Most Fundamental Human Right is Right to Life”
• President Donald Trump Can Defund Planned Parenthood Even More, Here’s How
• This City of Over 324,000 People is the Largest Abortion Free City in the U.S.
• A Public School Smears a Pro-Life Guest Speaker, Then Admits It Lied
• World Health Organization Has Long Promoted Abortion, Even Issuing Manuals on How to Kill Unborn Babies
• Nazi Scientists’ Calls for Euthanasia and Sterilizations Laid the Foundation for the Holocaust
• Teen Vogue Says Woman Wouldn’t Have Died in Botched Abortion if She Killed Her Baby Sooner
• Bizarre: Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz CEO Holds “Fun” Pie-Baking Contests
• Let’s Stop Treating Injured and Sick People Like “Vegetables”
• “Handmaid’s Tale” Tries to Make It Look Like Pro-Life Christians Support Child Brides
• Toledo Ohio Was Abortion Free, Now Clinic That Broke Law Will Resume Killing Babies
• Pro-Life Victories Recorded in Pennsylvania During Tuesday’s Primary Election

The former CEO of the Planned Parenthood abortion business Cecile Richards has received a top human rights award.Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

Women’s basketball is teaming up with Planned Parenthood in the name of “women” – even though millions of women are missing today because of the abortion giant.

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Father Omar Sanchez Portillo was celebrating his birthday on May 5 when a little baby boy with Down syndrome arrived at his Catholic children’s home in Peru.
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Support for Legalizing Abortion in Ireland Collapses, Less Than Half Want to Overturn 8th Amendment

Hope remains for unborn babies and the pro-lifers who are fighting for their lives in Ireland.
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Unborn Babies With Down Syndrome Can be Aborted Up to 24 Weeks, This Must be Stopped

Children with Down syndrome would experience new protection, under bills being considered in the Pennsylvania legislature.

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26 Psychiatrists Admit 97% of Abortions are Done for False “Mental Health” Reasons

A group of psychiatrists have said in an open letter that they do not want to see spurious appeals to ‘mental health’ being used to justify abortion.

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Woman Flying Home to Ireland to Vote Against Abortion Because the “Most Fundamental Human Right is Right to Life”

A young Irish woman plans to travel home from college early this year to vote in favor of rights for unborn babies.
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President Donald Trump Can Defund Planned Parenthood Even More, Here’s How

In 1970, Congress enacted Title X of the Public Health Service Act that provides federal tax dollars for family planning services.

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This City of Over 324,000 People is the Largest Abortion Free City in the U.S.

A Public School Smears a Pro-Life Guest Speaker, Then Admits It Lied

World Health Organization Has Long Promoted Abortion, Even Issuing Manuals on How to Kill Unborn Babies

Nazi Scientists’ Calls for Euthanasia and Sterilizations Laid the Foundation for the Holocaust

Teen Vogue Says Woman Wouldn’t Have Died in Botched Abortion if She Killed Her Baby Sooner

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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.”