DEACON FOR LIFE: ALL's Pro-Life This Week 6/17/2022

Friday, June 17, 2022

ALL's Pro-Life This Week 6/17/2022

                                        Featured Commentary
                                    

Servants Under Attack

One of the most incredible ministries in pro-life work today is that accomplished by the men and women of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers—a ministry exemplified by the worldwide network known as Heartbeat International.

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                                        Week in Review
                                    

This week, the Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, released updated abortion statistics. In 2020, one in five preborn children was killed by abortion violence.

                                        ALL in the News
                                    

This week, the bimonthly STOPP Report was sent out and included an article by interim director Rita Diller.

                                        Pro-Life Social Media
                                    

Despite secular headlines, June is the month devoted to the Sacred Heart. In the middle of this month is the feast of Corpus Christi, a celebration of the body and blood of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. Some churches observe the solemnity with Eucharistic processions, bringing Christ to the community that so desperately needs His presence.

                                        Video of the Week
                                    

Critics accuse US bishops who enforce Canon 915 of “weaponizing the Eucharist.” That is because they put political favorability over protecting human souls. What is the point of the canon if priests are not supposed to enforce it?

                                        Action Item of the Week
                                    

Planned Parenthood and abortion violence supporters will stop at nothing to murder pre-born children. But we knew this already. So, what can we do?

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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.”