DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes

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Texas Bill would pay women to pick adoption, not abortion
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA032307.08...

Scientists create a sheep that's 15% human
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.htm...

Bishops urge Nicaraguan Supreme Court to maintain pro-life laws
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8956

Russian Orthodox priest subsidizes women for not having abortion
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=2792

Jesus, the woman, and the family
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=105074

South Carolina Bill Requires Women See Ultrasound Before Abortion
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive...

Homosexual Practice Trumps Religious Belief
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070320/26421.htm

Reaction to general illustrates culture war
http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200703...

What about the Morality of Homosexual Behavior?
http://www.cwfa.org/articles/12601/BLI/dotcommentary/index.h...

Clinics Recruit Surrogates to Provide Kids for Gay Couples
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004169.cfm

Polish public split on pro-life amendment, poll finds
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=49985

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"In Cordibus Jesu et Mariae"

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.”