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, February 6, 2019

New York Gov. Cuomo's office got a surprise visit from LifeSite today!

Our pro-life reporting is being attacked. So is the truth. We can’t back down in the fight against abortion!

LifeSite doesn’t only report the news. With your support, we MAKE news!

Just today, we made a surprise visit to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office in Albany, New York!

We delivered over 137,600 of YOUR signatures to Gov. Cuomo, telling him to apologize for lighting the One World Trade Center to celebrate the passage of New York’s appalling, abortion-till-birth law.

Before making the delivery, LifeSite’s petitions manager Scott Schittl [pictured above] led a prayer vigil outside the governor’s office.

The prayer vigil was attended by about a dozen local LifeSite supporters. Collectively, they prayed for all of the unborn babies and women involved in abortion.

They also prayed for an end to abortion and for the conversion of Gov. Cuomo and all pro-abortion politicians.

And, of course, they did not forget to pray for those who died as a result of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers, a memory desecrated by Andrew Cuomo.

Scott delivered the petition to the Governor’s office, where he asked the secretary to personally convey our request to Cuomo: Apologize for signing this atrocious bill and for making light of taking human life!

And Governor Cuomo got your message, LOUD and CLEAR!

I want to thank you for taking part in this petition – in whatever way you could. Your help made a huge difference!

Indeed, in this era of fake news, even doing something as simple as sharing our stories and petitions on social media makes a huge difference.

We at LifeSite strongly believe we are helping our world by spreading the truth – about life, about family, and about faith!

But, we know that only you, our readers, can help magnify that effect – by sharing our stories and petitions with your like-minded friends, family, and colleagues.

We are not in this for our own glory. We are not in this for money. And, we are not in this to have power.

We simply want to help spread the truth about life, family, and faith.

Will you help us? All you have to do is share or ‘like’ our stories, petitions, and Facebook and Twitter pages.

Thank you for your help in spreading the truth. God bless!

John-Henry Westen
Editor-in-Chief, LifeSiteNews

Our mailing address is:
LifeSiteNews.com104 Bond St, Third FloorToronto, Ontario M5B1X9Canada

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.”