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.

Thursday, September 28, 2017

UNITED NATIONS PETITION ON THE RIGHT TO LIFE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

Your Support Helps HLI Defend Life & Family Around the World!

Dear Friends,

The United Nations Human Rights Committee, despite its name, regularly attacks nations with pro-life laws. Now the Committee had gone a terrible step further; its latest ambition is to deny the Unborn the Right to Life. Currently, The United Nations' International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) reads in Article 6: "Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life."

To stop the Committee from making abortion a "right", which would open the door to abortion in all its terrible forms, Human Life International has joined with C-FAM, the Center for Family and Human Rights, and six other groups in sponsoring a crucial petition on the Right to Life in international law. This petition will be delivered in by October and insist that the United Nations must not be allowed to redefine natural law.

Friends, we ask that you sign this petition. The goal? Over 100,000 signatories. Please click on this email link to sign the petition and support us and our other partners in this effort: the Susan B. Anthony List, The Family Research Council, United Families International, United Families International, Americans United for Life, The American Principles Project and Concerned Women for America. And pray, that our enemies may be confounded. For "blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord" (Psalm 39).

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Fr. Shenan J. Boquet

President, Human Life International

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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.”