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.

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

LifeNews: Obama HHS Abortion Mandate Suffers Another Defeat

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018

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• Obama HHS Abortion Mandate Suffers Another Defeat, Can’t Force Christian Universities to Fund Abortions
• Hillary Clinton: “Let Women Decide” if They Want to Kill Their Baby in an Abortion
• Planned Parenthood’s Campaign to Censor More Videos Exposing Its Aborted Baby Part Sales Wins Again
• 20 States Want to Force Taxpayers to Fund the Planned Parenthood Abortion Business

More Pro-Life News
• Doctors Said This 6-Year-Old Girl Was “Brain Dead” After a Car Wreck, Now She’s Walking Again
• Abortions in Michigan Have Dropped 45.6% Since 1987 as More Babies Saved From Abortion
• Obstetrician of the Year Urges Ireland to Vote No on Legalizing Abortion
• Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton Vetoes Bill Allowing Women to See Ultrasound of Baby Before Abortion
• Louisiana House Passes Pro-Life Bill Banning Abortions After 15 Weeks
• Iowa Attorney General Refuses to Defend Law Banning Abortions on Babies With Beating Hearts
• Abortionist Killed 40,000 Babies in Abortions, Then He Killed This Woman
• Abortionist Who’s So Bad He’s Had 13 Malpractice Suits Sets Up Shop in California
• Planned Parenthood: Abortions Must Remain Legal Because Killing Babies is Part of Basic “Health Care”
• California Used Dirty Tricks to Legalize Assisted Suicide, Now a Judge is Holding It Accountable
• Irish Americans Urge Ireland to Vote No on Referendum to Legalize Abortion
• aFDA Tells Scientist to Stop Making Three-Parent Unborn Babies

A federal district court issued an order Tuesday that permanently prevents the federal government from enforcing the Obamacare abortion-pill mandate against four Christian universities in Oklahoma represented by Alliance Defending Freedom.Click to Read at LifeNews.com.

In her book What Happened, Hillary Clinton recycles a decades-old slogan in defense of abortion.

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The 9^th Circuit Court of Appeals handed another victory to the abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
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20 States Want to Force Taxpayers to Fund the Planned Parenthood Abortion Business

Twenty pro-abortion attorneys general publicly opposed the Trump administration’s new sexual risk avoidance priorities in a brief filed Tuesday.
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Doctors Said This 6-Year-Old Girl Was “Brain Dead” After a Car Wreck, Now She’s Walking Again

Mackinlee Anderson nearly died of severe brain injuries last September after her family was involved in a multiple-vehicle accident.

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Abortions in Michigan Have Dropped 45.6% Since 1987 as More Babies Saved From Abortion

Last week the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services (MDHHS) released their latest abortion statistics report for the state of Michigan.

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Obstetrician of the Year Urges Ireland to Vote No on Legalizing Abortion

A highly-acclaimed Irish obstetrician cautioned voters to be wary of “untrue” information being pushed by abortion activists ahead of the May 25 vote on abortion in Ireland.
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Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton Vetoes Bill Allowing Women to See Ultrasound of Baby Before Abortion

Gov. Mark Dayton today vetoed the mainstream pro-life measure that would ensure pregnant women access to their ultrasounds prior to an abortion.

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Louisiana House Passes Pro-Life Bill Banning Abortions After 15 Weeks

Iowa Attorney General Refuses to Defend Law Banning Abortions on Babies With Beating Hearts

Abortionist Killed 40,000 Babies in Abortions, Then He Killed This Woman

Abortionist Who’s So Bad He’s Had 13 Malpractice Suits Sets Up Shop in California

Planned Parenthood: Abortions Must Remain Legal Because Killing Babies is Part of Basic “Health Care”

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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.”