DEACON FOR LIFE: ALL's Pro-Life This Week July 17, 2020

Friday, July 17, 2020

ALL's Pro-Life This Week July 17, 2020

                                        Featured Commentary
                                    

Murder by Mail

In the long march to pilfer fertility from women with deadly chemicals and devices, the latest twist comes from a judge who has ruled that in this pandemic era the abortion pill should be available by mail!

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                                        Week in Review
                                    

Incredibly, Planned Parenthood is still getting new government funding and pro-abortion groups continue to vow to get the Little Sisters of the Poor to pay for contraceptives despite SCOTUS victory.

                                        ALL in the News
                                    

Even as the summer unfolds, American Life League staff continue to raise critical issues, to speak out on breaking news, and to bring the pro-life voice to the Internet, radio, television, and magazines.

                                        Pro-Life Social Media
                                    

Last week it was discovered that almost all Planned Parenthood affiliates received federal aid totaling between $66 million and $151 million. Imagine how much $151 million could have done for real businesses had Planned Parenthood not stolen it?

                                        Video of the Week
                                    

We examined 20 press releases from pro-life organizations that used the terms “baby” and “mother” when referring to the Court's decision. We were shocked by the results.

                                        Action Item of the Week
                                    

Ripped from the headlines: Companies report they will be starting human trials on COVID-19 vaccines in the near future. Is that a good or bad thing?

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.”