DEACON FOR LIFE: Pro-Life This Week

Friday, September 22, 2023

Pro-Life This Week - September 22, 2023

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The Progeny of Violence
In Matthew 26:52 Christ instructs His disciples: “All who draw the sword will die by the sword.”

Today the selection of swords can be a challenging task for those who strike out against Truth and His wisdom, as the following examples will illustrate. For those who are faint of heart, this commentary could raise your blood pressure.

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Action Item of the Week CLSP’s annual Pro-Life Essay Contest is back for 2023!

Week in Review In Wisconsin, abortions have resumed following a ruling from a judge that deemed an 1849 abortion ban invalid.

Pro-Life Social Media A federal regulation to limit the killing of preborn children to 15 weeks is back in the political news again. President Donald Trump was asked his opinion on Florida’s inactive 6-week ban, signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis earlier this year.

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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.”