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.

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

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• Judge Overturns California Law Legalizing Assisted Suicide
• These 27 Major American Cities are Abortion Free, With No Clinics Killing Babies in Abortions
• Abortion Business CEO Retires After 23 Years of Killing Babies: “I’m Proud of What We Accomplished”
• Man Who Raped 12-Year-Old Girl and Used Device to Abort Her Baby Sentenced to 60 Years in Prison

More Pro-Life News
• Abortion Activists Complain There’s Not Enough Clinics Killing Babies in Abortions
• MSNBC Says Democrat Candidate is “Too Conservative” Because He’s Pro-Life
• Twitter Censors Pro-Life Groups But Defends Allowing Terrorist Group Hamas to Have Account
• Planned Parenthood Sues to Overturn Iowa Law Banning All Abortions After an Unborn Baby’s Heartbeat Begins
• She Immediately Regretted Her Abortion When the “The Doctor Counted All The Baby Parts” Afterwards
• Ireland Prime Minister: Putting Kids With Down Syndrome on Posters is “Wrong,” But Aborting Them is Not
• Newly-Elected University of Notre Dame Trustee Donated $10,000 to Pro-Abortion Group
• Former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton: Vote No on Overturning Pro-Life 8th Amendment
• The Impact of Aborting My Baby Didn’t Hit Me Until I Saw Something That Shook Me to the Core
• South Bend City Council Prohibits Pregnancy Center From Opening Next to Abortion Clinic
• Finland Parliament Rejects Legalizing Euthanasia

A California judge has overturned the state’s law legalizing assisted suicide, ruling it unconstitutional.Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

Abortion activists coined the term “abortion desert” several years ago to complain about how fewer unborn babies are being aborted in America.

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Vicki Saporta is retiring after 23 years as a CEO and is proud of her work.
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Man Who Raped 12-Year-Old Girl and Used Device to Abort Her Baby Sentenced to 60 Years in Prison

A Wisconsin man charged with raping multiple children and attempting a “crude” abortion on one of them after she became pregnant is headed to prison.
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Abortion Activists Complain There’s Not Enough Clinics Killing Babies in Abortions

Give pro-abortionists credit for catchy phrases. In the latest of an endless stream of “research” publicized this time in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, pro-abortionists now talk about “abortion deserts.”

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MSNBC Says Democrat Candidate is “Too Conservative” Because He’s Pro-Life

Soboroff immediately began interrogating him for not being sufficiently liberal.

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Twitter Censors Pro-Life Groups But Defends Allowing Terrorist Group Hamas to Have Account

Twitter has come under fire recently from pro-life advocates and conservatives who say the social media giant is censoring their message
Click to Read at LifeNews.com

Planned Parenthood Sues to Overturn Iowa Law Banning All Abortions After an Unborn Baby’s Heartbeat Begins

It looks like Planned Parenthood will be taking Iowa to court this week over its efforts to protect unborn babies from abortion.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com

She Immediately Regretted Her Abortion When the “The Doctor Counted All The Baby Parts” Afterwards

Ireland Prime Minister: Putting Kids With Down Syndrome on Posters is “Wrong,” But Aborting Them is Not

Newly-Elected University of Notre Dame Trustee Donated $10,000 to Pro-Abortion Group

Former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton: Vote No on Overturning Pro-Life 8th Amendment

The Impact of Aborting My Baby Didn’t Hit Me Until I Saw Something That Shook Me to the Core

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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.”