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, August 5, 2020

From CMMB: Our Experience With COVID-19

Nurse Kathleen Hartmann with a patient and colleague in Eswatini

We hope this message finds you and your family safe and healthy. We are Al and Kathleen Hartmann, a husband and wife, doctor and nurse team from New York City who have volunteered in Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, since 2001.

Together with a team of incredible Swazi healthcare workers, we bring home-based care to people living in some of the most impoverished conditions.

Dr. Al Hartmann with a “gogo” during a home visit last year in Eswatini

Over the years, generosity from people like you has allowed us to provide medicine, care, and food packages to thousands of patients. We are so grateful.

We are reaching out because COVID-19 cases in the developing world are growing rapidly and patients like ours need support more now than ever before. Due to the nature of our work, providing care to people who are critically ill or dying, we intimately know the people who would be most devastated if they get COVID-19. We feel called to do as much as we can to protect them from this terrible disease and provide comfort, dignity, and love always.

We cannot describe the gratitude on a woman’s face as she receives pain medication for her dying father. Or the relief of a grandmother who falls to the ground, weeping, at receiving an emergency food pack. Or the wonder of a child who learns about how washing his hands will help keep him from getting sick. These are the moments you make possible through your donation. Thank you for your support.

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Thank you,

Kathleen & Al Hartmann
Volunteers with CMMB - Healthier Lives Worldwide

PS: We are Al and Kathleen Hartmann, a husband and wife, doctor and nurse team from New York City who have volunteered in Eswatini, formerly Swaziland since 2001. Your generosity allows us to provide medicine, care, and food packages to thousands of patients. We are in a more dire situation as COVID-19 cases are growing rapidly and patients need support now more than ever before. Please give today.

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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.”