DEACON FOR LIFE: ALL's Pro-Life This Week 2/5/2021

Friday, February 5, 2021

ALL's Pro-Life This Week 2/5/2021

                                        Featured Commentary
                                    

Ask Catholic Bishops to Protect Christ from Sacrilege

Shortly after it was announced that Joseph R. Biden had been elected the president of the United States, Archbishop Jose Gomez—president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops—announced that the USCCB would form a working group “to address any ‘confusion’ about a faithful response to a Catholic politician backing public policy that goes against church teachings, such as abortion and same-sex marriage.”

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                                        Week in Review
                                    

Hundreds of “pro-life” bills are being introduced across the country. Polls are being taken to measure the attitude of our citizens. For 48 years, we have been struggling to end abortion. How are we doing?

                                        ALL in the News
                                    

American Life League executive director, Jim Sedlak, was interviewed regarding last week’s STOPP Report. The report released data showing Planned Parenthood took home $1.6 billion in taxpayer funding over the last few years.

                                        Pro-Life Social Media
                                    

Following the Capitol Hill riot on January 6, Twitter began wiping conservative and pro-life users off of its platform. Fortunately, American Life League was not included in the purge, but thousands of our followers were. In one month, our followers have been reduced by almost 25%!

                                        Video of the Week
                                    

Two pro-life polls were published recently, and both polls illustrate the state of the pro-life movement and its attitudes toward banning abortion.

                                        Action Item of the Week
                                    

The battle is on for control of our nation. New leaders are taking over, second-level officials are being put into office, and our various political parties are staking out their turf. One thing is being forgotten . . .

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.”