DEACON FOR LIFE: ALL's Pro-Life This Week 5/24/2020

Sunday, May 24, 2020

ALL's Pro-Life This Week 5/24/2020

                                        Featured Commentary
                                    

Dumb and Dumber

A wave of inane media comments crossed through my e-mail this week. It is enough to make one wonder if the pandemic has created massive brain malfunctions among certain of the citizenry.

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                                        Week in Review
                                    

There are two major concerns that arose in the pro-life movement this week. We take the time today to examine each one and to provide information to you so you will be ready to act during the next two weeks.

                                        ALL in the News
                                    

Planned Parenthood was recently discovered to have received $80 million in federal stimulus money. ALL VP, Hugh Brown, was quick to react with a press statement that is making its round in the news.

                                        Pro-Life Social Media
                                    

Why disgraced CBS News anchor and grandfather of fake news, Dan Rather, uses Twitter is anyone’s guess. His opinions carry as much weight as head lice. This week, Rather weighed in on the pro-life label.

                                        Video of the Week
                                    

As a person who fully respects human life, you will want to ensure that your actual end-of-life wishes are understood and carried out. Therefore, you will need a truly pro-life advance directive.

                                        Action Item of the Week
                                    

There are times for quiet prayer, research, and discernment. There are also times when it becomes necessary to loudly proclaim the truth so that the innocent are not lulled into inaction. Today is a time to shout from the rooftops...

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.”