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.

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

From CMMB: "I saw her slipping away"

72-year-old Mulewa with her 5-year-old granddaughter Mwikali.

It was past midnight when Mulewa was woken up. Her daughter, Ngiria, was in labor and desperately needed her.

The labor lasted hours. Ngiria lost a lot of blood and was in and out of consciousness. With tears in her eyes, Mulewa recalls what happened next:

"I remember holding my newborn grandson in my arms. He wasn't breathing. He had no heartbeat. And then I looked at Ngiria, my daughter. I could see she was slipping away. But no matter what I tried, I couldn't stop the bleeding. And then, just like that, she was gone."

What should have been a time of joy and celebration quickly turned into deep sorrow. Not only did Mulewa lose her daughter and grandson, but six children had lost their mother and a husband, his wife.

Mwende (12), Muli (10), Ndungee (7), and Mulewa (13) no longer have a mother.

"We needed a hospital. We needed a doctor. If there was a hospital, if my wife had a doctor's care, maybe she would be alive today and my children would have their mother." - Negi, father in Kenya

Ngiria and her baby boy should be alive. Their deaths - like that of so many women and babies in impoverished countries - were preventable. If only they lived closer to the hospital, if only they had a doctor's skilled care, if only...

Your gift can help save precious lives, like Ngiria and her baby boy, by ensuring pregnant women have access to prenatal care, emergency transportation, a health facility with trained medical professionals, and critical medicines, so they can deliver their babies safely. Your help can bring the light of hope.

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With gratitude,

President and CEO
CMMB/Healthier Lives Worldwide
PS: The distance to the nearest health facility can mean the difference between life and death for pregnant women and their unborn babies. Your gift can help ensure access to emergency transportation and critical care that saves lives.

Healthier Lives Worldwide

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.”