DEACON FOR LIFE: ALL's Pro-Life This Week 5/7/2021

Friday, May 7, 2021

ALL's Pro-Life This Week 5/7/2021

                                        Featured Commentary
                                    

Family Is Not Just a Word

In the words of St. John Paul II, the family is “the first and fundamental school of social living: as a community of love, it finds in self-giving the law that guides it and makes it grow.”

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                                        Week in Review
                                    

What a great week for children in states across the nation. Lubbock (TX) voters turned out in force to pass a local ordinance prohibiting abortion. Arkansas and North Dakota took steps to end school sex ed, and more...

                                        ALL in the News
                                    

This week, Judie Brown was interviewed by One News Now on San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone condemning abortion and pro-abortion politicians who receive Communion. Meanwhile, Hugh Brown was quoted in a Townhall article on the USCCB’s conversation concerning Biden and the Eucharist.

                                        Pro-Life Social Media
                                    

This is becoming a weekly habit. The demonic “Catholics for Choice” posts a tweet raising eyebrows to galactic levels.

                                        Video of the Week
                                    

Is there any good news come out of all the information surrounding COVID-19? Researchers at the Franciscan University of Steubenville are studying herd immunity among its students, and American Life League is privileged to be helping underwrite this important project.

                                        Action Item of the Week
                                    

In the United States, Mother’s Day takes place this weekend. It is a time we are asked to pause and remember the woman who cooperated with God in giving us life. We know you will like this cardinal’s reflection on mothers.

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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.”