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.

Monday, August 11, 2008

News from the Trenches

"Flagrant miscarriage of justice"

Judge orders pro-lifer to stay away from Oakland abortion clinic after he's arrested for allegedly violating city's new "bubble law"

Walter Hoye, the Baptist pastor from Berkeley who led an unsuccessful fight against Oakland's "bubble law," has become the first person arrested in violation of the ordinance.

On May 13, Hoye was arrested and cited outside the Family Planning Specialists Medical Group clinic on Webster Street after being accused of coming within 8 feet of patients and patient escorts. The ordinance prohibits approaching anyone closer than 8 feet for the purposes of "counseling, harassing or interfering" with someone without the person's consent.

Read this story here: California Catholic Daily