DEACON FOR LIFE: ALL's Pro-Life This Week 7/23/2022

Saturday, July 23, 2022

ALL's Pro-Life This Week 7/23/2022

                                        Featured Commentary
                                    

The Valley of the Fallen

Some years ago my beloved husband Paul and I were in Spain and visited the Valley of the Fallen. We had gone there as part of a tour we took throughout that nation, but at that monument we were overwhelmed with awe and could not help but reflect on the grief and suffering represented at this memorial to Spain’s Civil War dead. It is also the burial place of controversial dictator General Francisco Franco.

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                                        Week in Review
                                    

In Liverpool, England, a 76-year-old grandmother has been cleared of charges brought against her after she was arrested for praying the Rosary in front of an abortion facility.

                                        ALL in the News
                                    

This week, Katie Brown, director of ALL’s Marian Blue Wave program was a guest on The Catholic Current radio show. Katie and the show’s host, Fr. Robert, discussed the importance of prayer in the fight to end abortion, as well as the future of the pro-life movement after Roe.

                                        Pro-Life Social Media
                                    

Here are five prayers and devotions you could add to your Smartphone’s photo gallery.

                                        Video of the Week
                                    

Is treating an ectopic pregnancy considered abortion? You might have heard influential pro-life advocates claim that it’s not, but it isn’t that black and white.

                                        Action Item of the Week
                                    

In a post-Roe world, we need life-affirming education now more than ever. That’s where the Culture of Life Studies Program—or CLSP, as we like to call it—comes in.

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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.”