DEACON FOR LIFE: ALL's Pro-Life This Week 8/1/2020

Saturday, August 1, 2020

ALL's Pro-Life This Week 8/1/2020

                                        Featured Commentary
                                    

The Trouble with Truth

The truth—according to the magisterium of the Catholic Church—is that the body and blood of Christ are actually present in the sacrament of the Eucharist. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states:

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                                        Week in Review
                                    

Another active pro-life week is ending. We bring you reactions to the Planned Parenthood–Sanger controversy as well as looks at international and domestic policies coming from the White House.

                                        ALL in the News
                                    

Last week, Jim Sedlak’s statement regarding the recent discovery that Planned Parenthood received up to $151 million in PPP money was featured in a Colorado-based news outlet. This article was reprinted almost a dozen times.

                                        Pro-Life Social Media
                                    

These cute, Instagram babies show us how they keep cool during these hot, summer days.

                                        Video of the Week
                                    

On Alan Keyes’ online program, ALL president Judie Brown describes the spiritual benefit to being forced into isolation.

                                        Action Item of the Week
                                    

We complain about politicians. We complain about governors during the pandemic. We complain about Congress. But, what do we do about it? Today we tell you what you can do right now to begin to make changes.

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.”