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dexter
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Uganda
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 Posted - 04/29/2008 : 14:33:25
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well, Genesis1:28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
for one guess people having the babies "laid" then think about aborting them are insane if God feeds the birds of the air that neither sow nor harvest hey! the baby has come thats God's creation not you and her and you go ahead and abort the poor thing no thats not right
he says "fill the earth" i really don't support abortion nor the thought of it known of some and the thought just drove me crazy.
suicide and those that do it deserve death ever look at art lets take sculpturing ..... this artist has spent time modeling out a piece of art then you while you are walking through the gallery trip over the art work and the sculpture breaks what is the artist going to do to you .....hmmmm think about it!!?
that's just like God and his creation "let it flow"
here:
exodus21:22 “Now suppose two men are fighting, and in the process they accidentally strike a pregnant woman so she gives birth prematurely.[c] If no further injury results, the man who struck the woman must pay the amount of compensation the woman’s husband demands and the judges approve. 23 But if there is further injury, the punishment must match the injury: a life for a life, 24 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot, 25 a burn for a burn, a wound for a wound, a bruise for a bruise.
hosea9:1410 The Lord says, “O Israel, when I first found you,
it was like finding fresh grapes in the desert.
When I saw your ancestors,
it was like seeing the first ripe figs of the season.
But then they deserted me for Baal-peor,
giving themselves to that shameful idol.
Soon they became vile,
as vile as the god they worshiped.
11 The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird,
for your children will not be born or grow in the womb or even be conceived.12 Even if you do have children who grow up, I will take them from you.
It will be a terrible day when I turn away
and leave you alone.13 I have watched Israel become as beautiful as Tyre.But now Israel will bring out her children for slaughter.”14 O Lord, what should I request for your people?
I will ask for wombs that don’t give birth and breasts that give no milk.
psalms29:8 The voice of the Lord makes the barren wilderness quake;
the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of the Lord twists mighty oaks[c]
and strips the forests bare.
In his Temple everyone shouts, “Glory!”
10 The Lord rules over the floodwaters.
The Lord reigns as king forever.
11 The Lord gives his people strength.
The Lord blesses them with peace.
psalms 127,......
honor is so sublime perfection and so refinde;that when God was alone and creatureless at first,himselfe had none: but as of the elements,these which we tread produce all things with which we are joyed or fed and, those are barren birth above our head
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spaxx
Junior Member
205 Posts |
 Posted - 05/09/2008 : 10:17:26
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And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth....And Cain said to the Lord: My iniquity is greater than that I may deserve pardon.....and I shall be a vagabond and a fugitive on the earth: every one, therefore, that findeth me, shall kill me. (Gen 4:10)
Innocent Blood cries out loudly to the Lord; not only Abel's blood, but also the blood of all who are killed for the Lord. This cry is witness to the faith and to the glow of love, for whose sake it is spilled. The cry of blood rises up to the heavens. For like Abel, though witnesses are killed in remote places, their death is precious in the eyes of the Lord. But justice requires that all who are unjustly murdered attain the glorious crown and that those who unjustly pursue and murder are condemned.
The Catholic Church has always condemned abortion as a grave evil. Christian writers from the first-century author of the Didache maintain that the Bible forbids abortion, just as it forbids murder.
Incomprehensibly the blood of the Unborn, the smallest and most vulnerable members of society, is spilled daily in abortion clinics world-wide, in the wombs of their mothers. This brings an avalanche of accusations, which also scream for justice before the throne of the Living God. Even though the unborn are not witnesses to faith, their spilled blood is witness to our injustices and hardheartedness. In this case, the prosecutor is the blood, which modern man spills in direct defiance of God's commandment. The present generation has blindly fallen into hellish darkness and Godlessness. Modern man, in rebellion against God, has lifted and placed himself on the pedestal reserved for God. Man worships himself as God.
SPILLING THE BLOOD OF THE UNBORN DIRECTLY OCCURS THROUGH ABORTION. IT INDIRECTLY OCCURS THROUGH PLANNED PARENTHOOD, FAMILY PLANNING, BIRTH CONTROL PROMOTION OF WOMENS RIGHTS.
Modern man has forgotten the violent systems he has created, and is foolishly running headlong towards chaos and eternal damnation.
Here are some examples of the consistent teachings against abortion from the writings of the Fathers of the Church.
Concerning women who commit fornication, and destroy that which they have conceived, or who are employed in making drugs for abortion, a former decree excluded them until the hour of death, and to this some have assented. Nevertheless, being desirous to use somewhat greater lenity, we have ordained that they fulfill ten years of penance, according to the prescribed degrees(Council of Ancyra - canon 21 [A.D. 314]).
Let her that procures abortion undergo ten years’ penance, whether the embryo were perfectly formed, or not (Basil the Great - First Canonical Letter, canon 2 [A.D. 374]).
And near that place I saw another strait place....and there sat women....And over against them many children who were born to them out of due time sat crying. And there came forth from them rays of fire and smote the women in the eyes. And these were the accursed who conceived and caused abortion (The Apocalypse of Peter 25 [A.D. 137]).
...When we say that those women who use drugs to bring on abortion commit murder, and will have to give an account to God for the abortion, on what principle should we commit murder? For it does not belong to the same person to regard the very fetus in the womb as a created being, and therefore an object of God’s care, and when it has passed into life, to kill it; and not to expose an infant, because those who expose them are chargeable with child-murder, and on the other hand, when it has been reared to destroy it (Athenagoras - A Plea for the Christians 35 [A.D. 177]).
Wherefore I beseech you, flee fornication... Why sow where the ground makes it its care to destroy the fruit? — where there are many efforts at abortion? — where there is murder before the birth? For even the harlot you do not let continue a mere harlot, but make her a murderess also. You see how drunkenness leads to prostitution, prostitution to adultery, adultery to murder; or rather to a something even worse than murder. For I have no name to give it, since it does not take off the thing born, but prevents its being born. Why then do thou abuse the gift of God, and fight with his laws, and follow after what is a curse as if a blessing, and make the chamber of procreation a chamber for murder, and arm the woman that was given for child bearing unto slaughter? For with a view to drawing more money by being agreeable and an object of longing to her lovers, even this she is not backward to do, so heaping upon thy head a great pile of fire. For even if the daring deed be hers, yet the causing of it is thine (John Chrysostom - Homilies on Romans 24 [A.D. 391]).
I cannot bring myself to speak of the many virgins who daily fall and are lost to the bosom of the Church, their mother. . . . Some go so far as to take potions, that they may insure barrenness, and thus murder human beings almost before their conception. Some, when they find themselves with child through their sin, use drugs to procure abortion, and when, as often happens, they die with their offspring, they enter the lower world laden with the guilt not only of adultery against Christ but also of suicide and child murder (Jerome - Letters 22:13 [A.D. 396]).
...Thou shall not slay thy child by causing abortion, nor kill that which is begotten... [If it be slain, [it] shall be avenged, as being unjustly destroyed (Apostolic Constitutions 7:3 [A.D. 400]).
Make no mistake about it. If you have had anything to do with the abominable sin of abortion, be it in an active role such as procuring an abortion or a passively role such as verbal advice to a pregnant woman to abort or failing to advise against abortion, then you will not see eternal life unless you confess and do penance.
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spaxx
Junior Member
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Posted - 07/09/2008 : 05:01:53
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It is well known that unscriptural views of the marriage relation are becoming prevalent in the world, so that its obligations are disregarded by many, and separation of husband and wife, and divorces for slight and unwarrantable reasons, are becoming more frequent every year. The horrible crime of infanticide is also on the increase, and the evils which these errors and crimes have already brought upon the world, and the worse evils which they threaten in the future, make it imperative that the whole power of the ministry and Church of Jesus Christ should be put forth in maintenance of truth and virtue in regard to these things.
From the moment of conception a new life commences, a new individual exists, another child is added to the family. The mother who deliberately sets about to destroy this life, either by want of care, or by taking drugs, or using instruments, commits as great a crime, is just as guilty, as if she strangled her new-born infant, or as if she snatched from her own breast her six months' darling, and dashed out its brains against the wall. Its blood is upon her head, and, as sure as there is a God and a judgment, that blood will be required of her. The crime she commits is murder, child-murder. This crime is common. It is fearfully prevalent. Millions of persons in the world are devoted to its perpetration. It is their trade. Those who submit to their treatment are not generally unmarried women who have lost their virtue, but the mothers of families, respectable, Christian matrons, members of church, and walking in the better class of society. Better, far better, to bear a child every year for twenty years than to resort to such a wicked and injurious step ; better to die, if needs be, in the pangs of childbirth, than to live with such a weight of sin on the conscience.
From the moment of conception a new life commences, that he who takes that life, whether under the forms of medical or civil law, or the stimulus of greed or benevolence, violates a higher law, and, as sure as there is a God and a judgment, that blood will be required of him. Until both science and the civil code recognize this fact there will be but poor success in the endeavor to suppress abortion.
If we examine the history of abortion, we find that this crime, now so commonly practiced as to demand the attention it is receiving from moralists, is of extremely ancient origin, having existed
among pagan nations from the earliest times: that the influence of Christianity has ever been to banish the practice, and that in proportion as Christianity becomes weakened or destroyed, the fearful evil in question re-appears and extends.
The Roman women did not scruple to dis embarrass themselves of a pregnancy which might interfere with their convenience or pleasure, until Ulpian repressed the practice by attaching to it the most severe penalties. Plato and Aristotle advocated it for the avowed purpose of preventing excessive population (forerunners of UN-sponsored family planning), and taught that the child only acquires a soul at the moment of mature birth; hence, that the embryo not possessing animation, its sacrifice is not murder. This monstrous heresy against religion, science, and common sense is not without its imitators in our own time. Modern sophists pretend that before a certain period of intra-uterine existence, which they term "animation," the embryo has neither life nor soul ; that, consequently, its destruction before that period is an evil, perhaps, but in certain cases, is lawful.
The dangers incidental to abortion are numerous, and to one who knows them, frightful.
First, flooding. She may flood to death before your very eyes, and many cases do occur altogether beyond the control of the most skillful practitioners.
Second, inflammations. Escaping the dangers of flooding, inflammation may attack the womb, or its appendages, or the surrounding organs, and she may die in horrid delirium.
Third, insanity. By reflex action the brain not infrequently takes on disease, and in place of a prattling baby, you may be saddled for the remainder of your life with a madwoman.
Fourth, barrenness a most common result. 'Circumstances' may change; it may seem the most desirable thing in the world that your family should increase,' but violated Nature defies you. Pregnancy occurs often enough, but the womb gives up its contents at precisely the same term as you forced it to do before, and no art can come to your relief.
Fifth, female weakness. The long train of sad and tedious phenomena indicated by this popular term, is absolutely multifarious congestions, ulceration, and prolapsus uteri, diseases of the bladder, urethra, and rectum, incontinence of urine, spinal irritation, sciatica, and other things, of which the greatest misfortune is that they do not kill, but simply render life insupportable.
It is a noble and worthwhile act to inform everybody about the evil of abortion for two reasons ; first, to save the life of a human being, and, second, to rescue husband, but above all excellent wives, from the commission of a sin of damnation.
The destruction by parents of their own offspring before birth is a crime against God and against nature. There are very many influences at work, in public and in secret, to corrupt the minds of the people, until the frequency of such murder is not longer sought to be concealed. But make no mistake about it, those who are guilty of these crimes are warned that they cannot inherit eternal life. This includes the mother, the doctor, all those who condone abortion, and even the person who knows that an abortion is being planned and does not do everything in his/her power to advise against it, will be damned on account of being an accessory. Yes, Divine Justice is strict and rigorous, and will not tolerate indifference. This is how it shall be on that terrible day of reckoning.
It is vile hypocrisy for murderers of the unborn, the most innocent and vulnerable members of society, to remain in connection with the visible Church of Christ. Therefore, those who have been called to preach the Gospel, and all those who love purity and the truth, and who would arrest the just judgment of Almighty God from the state and nation, are exhorted not to remain silent any longer or be tolerant of these things, but take a bold stand, that the thought of impurity and cruelty may be stayed. |
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spaxx
Junior Member
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Posted - 07/14/2008 : 11:00:01
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We came to the Fifth Commandment, the Lord showed me I was a horrible assassin and that I had committed the worst and most abominable in front of his eyes: an abortion. Money empowered me to pay for several abortions because I claimed women had a right to choose when they wanted to become pregnant or not. I saw in the book of life and it hurt me deeply when I saw a fourteen-year old girl aborting because I had taught her. When one is poisoned nothing good remains. Everything that comes close to you is also spoiled.
There were these girls, three of them my nieces and the other one, my nephew#8217;s girlfriend. Their parents would let them come to my house because I had money and talked to them about fashion, glamour, how to show their bodies, and so on. My sister would send them to me. I corrupted them. I corrupted minors that were a horrible sin, compounding abortion. I would tell them not to be innocent. #8220;Your mothers talk to you about virginity and chastity because they#8217;re outdated. They talk about a 2000 year old Bible but priests have refused to come to terms with the modern world. Your mothers talk about what the Pope says, but the Pope is outdated.#8221;
Imagine how poisonous! I taught these girls they had to enjoy their bodies but that they had to contraceptive. I taught them the #8220;perfect woman#8221; method. That 14 year old, my nephew#8217;s girlfriend came to my office one day (I saw this in the book of life) and in tears told me #8220;Gloria, I#8217;m just a baby and I#8217;m pregnant!#8221; I scolded her and told her #8220;didn#8217;t I teach you about contraception?#8221; She replied #8220;yes, but it didn#8217;t work!#8221; Then I saw how the Lord had put that girl there so she wouldn#8217;t sink in the abyss, so she wouldn#8217;t abort. Abortion is a heavy chain that drags and tramples, it is a hurt that never ends. It#8217;s the emptiness of being a murderer. It#8217;s the worst thing one can do to a child.
As to that girl, instead of talking to her about the Lord, I gave her money to have an abortion at a #8216;good#8217; place so she wouldn#8217;t have any complications later on in life. Just like that one, I sponsored several abortions. Each time the blood of a baby is spilled, it#8217;s like a holocaust to Satan. It is a holocaust which hurts and shakes the Lord. In the book of life I saw how our soul is formed the moment the sperm and the egg touch. A beautiful spark is formed, a light beaming from the sun of God the Father. As soon as the womb of a mother is impregnated, it lights up with the brightness of that soul. When there is an abortion, that soul screams and moans in pain even if it has no eyes or flesh. When it is being murdered, that cry is heard and heaven shakes and an equally strong cry is heard in hell, but this time of joy. Immediately after that happens, some seals break loose in hell and larvae come out to continue prowling around humankind, keeping it enslaved to the flesh and to all those bad things we see and the worse that will come.
Because, how many babies are killed on a daily basis? And it is a victory for him. The price of innocent blood releases one more demon each time. I got washed in that blood and my clean soul became absolutely dark. After those abortions, I had no more sense of sinfulness. For me, everything was okay. It was sad to see how all those debts I owed the devil included as well all those babies I had killed myself because I had a copper-T intrauterine device. I painfully saw how many little babies had been created and those suns had burst, with the cry of that baby being torn away from the hands of his Father God. No wonder I was always sour and ill-tempered, with a grim face, frustrated with everyone and very depressed. I had become a baby-killing machine!
And that sank me deeper into the abyss. How could I say I hadn#8217;t killed? How about every person I disliked, hated, or simply couldn#8217;t put up with? I was being a murderer there too, because people don#8217;t only die from a gunshot. It#8217;s enough to hate them, to do bad things to them, to be envious of them. You kill with that. (Taken From Gloria Polo#8217;s Return from Death, Colombia, South America)
The following quotations from authors of the early Church also serve to drive this point home.
THE DIDACHE APOSTOLORUM (90 A.D.):
"You shall not kill by abortion the fruit of the womb and you shall not murder the infant already born."
TERTULLIAN (150 - 240 AD):
"To prevent birth is anticipated murder; it makes little difference whether one destroys a life already born or does away with it in its nascent stage. The one who will be a man is already one."
Apostolic Constitutions 7:3 [A.D. 400]:
"Thou shall not slay thy child by causing abortion, nor kill that which is begotten; for "everything that is shaped, and has received a soul from God, if it be slain, shall be avenged, as being unjustly destroyed."
How, then, can one say that abortion is not great evil ? Perhaps, to such a person, sin appears to you to be a small evil. Is it a small evil to turn one's back on God, and to lose His friendship ?
Go now, and say that abortion is but small evil. At the hour of death you shall not say so. For every sin of that kind shall then appear to you a monster of Hell. Much less, shall you say so before the Divine Judge, Who will tell you what the Apostle has already told you, "No fornicator, or unclean . . . hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God" (Ephesians 5:5).
Deluded and impious folks think that they who take part in the murder of the unborn shall get away with it. That will NEVER happen as long as God is God. For, He is a just God, and the murder of the unborn, the most defenseless, is the most heinous, abominable, and unjust crime that ever existed. And to whom do these victims turn to for justice, if it ain't God. |
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spaxx
Junior Member
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Posted - 07/18/2008 : 07:17:01
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Regarding the hard cases that people bring up to "legitimize" the slaughter of the unborn, Judie Brown's American Life League talk provides us with the answers.
Rape and incest
"incest often is coupled with rape in discussions of abortion, only to arouse in people an emotion of revulsion which proponents of abortion seek to divert from parties who are guilty to individuals who are innocent - in this case the unborn child."
Permitting pre-born capital punishment for cases of rape or incest punishes the innocent child more severely than the guilty culprit. Abortion makes the unborn suffer a greater sentence than the perpetrator of the crime.
Permitting abortion, in cases of rape or incest, effectively blames the unborn for another's (i.e. the father) crime. Killing the unborn because his/her father is a rapist is no more justifiable than killing the rapist's mother or father (perhaps even less so, in that, plausibly, a parent could have in some way influenced, caused or contributed to the son's actions. The unborn child has not yet been created; no causal influence, and therefore culpability, is possible). The perpetrator alone should be punished; punishing the unborn makes him or her a scapegoat and the second victim.
The unborn baby has a right to life regardless of the circumstances under which he or she was conceived.
If we were to consider two infants, one conceived through marital intercourse, the other through forcible rape, would we say that one person was "more human" than the other?
Two wrongs do not make a right. A second wrong makes a bad situation worse. Regardless of the father's identity, the woman is still the mother. The baby is still her child.
The "hard cases" probably represent only 1 percent of all abortions. Yet we hear about them all the time. To be equitable, there are no doubt "easy cases" which can be brought up against the pro-abortionist. What about abortion performed for sex selection, or under duress, or without full disclosure of fact, or without parental consent or notification ? Or abortion for birth control? Or abortion in the last month of pregnancy? Or how about abortions performed on the basis of coin flips, tea leaves, horoscopes, etc...? As upsetting or outlandish as some of these scenarios sound, all are possible. All are legally permissible. And such "easy cases" are no doubt much more prevalent than the oft cited "hard cases."
If a rape/incest exception were allowed: How would we differentiate between the rape victim and an abortion-minded liar? Making a woman "prove" she was raped, not to convict her attacker, but to get an abortion, would be disastrous. Surely some women desiring an abortion would feign rape (the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, Norma McCorvey, admitted to lying about being raped). This would cause great damage to the true victims of rape who already risk character assassination by the judicial system.
Rape or incest engenders sympathy, and rightly so, for the victim. However, sympathy and concern should be confined to helping and healing the victim; caring for her and the innocent life within her. Caring for the victim cannot justify killing innocent life whether or not the woman - now a mother - desires an abortion. Murder is not a solution, even if the mother at such a distraught time believes it is.
While abortion may seem to some like the best course of action for a mother after being assaulted, it harms the victim physically, psychologically and spiritually in the long term.
In rape or incest, promotion of "therapeutic abortion" is derived from an assumption one could refer to as "murder-as-therapy." However, even if an abortion could provide the assault victim temporary relief there is no evidence to support the tenet that abortion provides long term benefits. The unfortunate woman and her sexuality is instead victimized twice. Any negative effects- physical, psychological or spiritual-arising from the abortion can only compound pre-existing problems. Also, destroyed are the potentially positive benefits for the mother which may arise from unselfishly preserving the life of her child. And, of course, one cannot forget the tragedy and injustice of abortion in regard to the preborn child.
Our abhorrence towards incest (or rape) engenders sympathy for the victim, and rightly so. However, our sympathy and concern for the victim should not cloud our judgment on what is right or wrong. Also, the preborn baby equally deserves our sympathy and concern, especially under such unfortunate circumstances.
We must deal with a tragedy in an appropriate manner. A negative event should be handled with a positive response. Killing a preborn baby is not, and never can be, a positive response to any situation. Also, we must be clear as to what is negative in the case of an incest victim becoming pregnant; obviously, the act (or acts) of incest is what is to be deplored. In contrast, conception, regardless of the precursory circumstances, is not negative: it is the creation of a new, unique and precious human being. Otherwise, God would ordain that such conceptions never succeed in happning.
Life of the Mother
In the event that the mother's life is threatened, we must remember that there are two patients involved. Every possible effort must be made to save both.
There are virtually no conditions that threaten the mother's life in which abortion is a medically recognized treatment. In some conditions (e.g., an ectopic pregnancy or a cancerous uterus) a treatment may be required which indirectly kills the preborn. But in such cases, the treatment does not legally or morally qualify as an abortion. When removing a cancerous uterus, the intent is to save the mother; every effort to save the child should still be made. Thus even if the child dies, the treatment is still fully justified. The death of the child was never INTENDED. In contrast, for an abortion the intent is always the same: to kill the preborn child.
Quote from Dr. Alan Guttmacher, pro-abortionist and former head of Planned Parenthood, in 1967: "Today it is possible for almost any patient to be brought through pregnancy alive, unless she suffers from a fatal illness such as cancer or leukemia, and if so, abortion would be unlikely to prolong, much less save life." |
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spaxx
Junior Member
205 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2008 : 06:39:24
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Perhaps a simply enumeration of what abortion does will put it in perspective. First, abortion destroys the innocent life of an unbaptized infant, a little person for whose salvation Our Savior groaned. (We naturally hope that the tiny victim is safely in the hands of God; but a disturbing thought is that God has given us a hand in seeing to the safety and the salvation of our neighbors, and we are failing these little neighbors by the millions.) The person of the-child was created not by the parents' lust, but by the Father's love, and to treat this mighty and individual creative act contemptuously must surely tear at the very bowels of creation.
Secondly, abortion turns the mother into a murderess. We may presume various degrees of guiltlessness among those who obtain abortions, but as one who counsels many unexpectedly pregnant girls and women, I can affirm positively that vast numbers who seek abortion know exactly what they are doing. "I know it's a little baby," they say, "but I just can't handle it right now." When a woman is willing to kill her baby, what will she not do?
Abortion either makes the father into an accomplice in his child's murder (often he is the driving force), or his rights of fatherhood are violated in the worst way imaginable. There is a corresponding involvement of grandparents, uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters— for all these kin have a sort of claim upon the child, as he has a birthright to their love. Thus other members of the families are involved, often as agents and always as victims, in spilling their own blood and violating the bonds among themselves.
Finally, the medical people connected with an abortion bear a terrible burden of guilt. (We speak again not of the psychological state of remorse but of the objective fact of guilt) And sometimes those whose connection with an abortion is materially remote are nevertheless intimately united with it: politicians, bureaucrats, manufacturers of medicine and equipment, and especially that army of activists and profiteers that crusades for abortion. Each of the 40,000,000 to 50,000,000 abortions in the world every year entails the most foul moral corruption of scores of people. And once again we see the trivialization of sexuality and of human beings themselves. Procreation becomes not a divine gift but a human error. US presidential candidate Obama, in justifying his pro-abortion stance, said, "If my daughter made a mistake, I wouldn't want her to be punished by a pregnancy". The act of procreation, the formation of a new life by a Divine Decree, has now been classified as a punishment. Its issue in God's image is discarded in a plastic garbage bag, without so much as a tear (yet when a pet dies, it is not unusual to see floods of tears and even a fully fledged funeral for the deceased pet). Family bonds of the most sacred kind are violated. All of this to avoid embarrassment or inconvenience. |
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spaxx
Junior Member
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Posted - 09/30/2008 : 11:30:11
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One of the evils crying out to Almighty God for justice is the abortion. Yet there is a little known evil, rarely talked about, that is practiced daily by almost all women of child bearing age in the western world. The evil of contraception.
Both contraception and abortion violate the same principle of the natural law, moral law; namely, It is never lawful to exercise an act and reject the end for which the act is designed.[4]
The conjugal act (sex) is designed for the generation of new human life. Anything that frustrates that end is against both the natural moral law and the Divine Law. Both contraception and abortion frustrate the end of the marriage act, thus both contraception and abortion are grievously immoral for the exact same reason.
We have no difficulty grasping this principle when it comes to eating. We do not take a bite of food, chew it to savor the flavor and then spit it out. Such an act would be contrary to reason, as it is against the purpose of eating, which is the nourishment of the body.
Most people are rightly disgusted by the (perhaps fabled) account of ancient Romans gorging themselves with food, only to trot to the so-called vomitorium and spew it all so that they could return to the feast to consume more food.
We see that in both of these unnatural acts, the principle is the same: it is never lawful to exercise an act and reject the end for which the act is designed. The purpose of eating is the ingestion of food for the nourishment of the body. The above-mentioned acts are contrary to nature and therefore against reason.
The spitting of the food can be compared to contraception; the self-induced vomiting of food can be likened to abortion, though contraception and abortion are far more heinous. Yet many of the same people who would denounce these eating habits as grotesque would nonetheless favor both contraception and abortion. Such a viewpoint demonstrates a mind that is not formed on principles, but on sentiment, on the imagination, and on the whim of human will.
The principle is best illustrated in the alleged controversy surrounding St. Thomas Aquinas and abortion. Democratic Senator Joe Biden recently made a prize fool of himself attempting to quote Aquinas on this point. Biden focused on the argument “when human life begins”, and quoted St. Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica, who said that human life does not occur until about 40 days after conception. Biden referred to this as a controversy in the Church.
In fact, there is no controversy, and no confusion in St. Thomas’ mind regarding abortion.
St. Thomas was following the biologists of his time who believed that the child in the womb goes through three stages of gestation: vegetative, animal and finally human. This understanding of biology has proven to be inaccurate. We now know that the fetus is human from the moment of conception.
Yet, as the eminent philosopher Dr. Raphael Waters points out, even though St. Thomas Aquinas may have been mistaken on biology, he never approved of abortion. Aquinas specifically condemned abortion in his doctoral thesis in which he said, Although the child in the womb may not be human, nevertheless it is a very great evil to abort it.[6]
Dr. Waters explains that St. Thomas adhered to the true principle that must be followed. Aquinas argued from the end – from the purpose — of the conjugal act. Aquinas did not argue from the humanity of the fetus. He was on the surer principle that abortion is evil whether the fetus is “human or not”, because the end – the purpose -- of the conjugal act is discarded. It is never lawful to exercise an act and reject the end for which the act is designed.
Once we understand this principle, we better grasp the intrinsic immorality of contraception. And we see this same principle applies against sterilization, homosexual acts, etc. We better comprehend why the ethician Father Thomas Higgins wrote, Positive contraception is a hideous crime against nature.
Higgins explained this statement by invoking the same principle we’ve already enunciated: The ultimate purpose of the sex faculty is a tremendously important good [new human life]; and precisely because this ultimate perfective good is not so much a good of the individual as it is good of the human race, nature has attached the most vehement of all sense pleasures. Therefore to set this faculty in motion, to cull the pleasure and then positively and deliberately to prevent conception, to destroy the ultimate good for which alone the faculty exists, is a foul perversion, and intrinsically disordered use of the faculty, a frustration of nature in the matter of the utmost moment.
In other words, to the conjugal act – as to eating – nature has attached pleasure as an inducement to the act, but it is not lawful to act strictly for pleasure alone and discard the very purpose of the act.
The celebrated philosopher Romano Amerio concisely explains, Contraception means a disassociation between what nature intends and what the human will intends, or to put it in the terms of an old but proper distinction, between the finis operas [the goal of the work] and the finis operantis [the goal of the one who performs the act.]
This demonstrates that contraception is not a specifically Catholic issue, but rather an issue of the natural moral law to which all individuals are bound. Morality does not flow from the will of man but from the nature of man. Morality does not even flow from the will of God, but from the nature of God. It is blasphemous to believe that God could one day make one set of Commandments that forbid adultery and murder, and the next day make another set of Commandments that approves of adultery and murder. Morality does not flow from His will, but from His nature of infinite, perfect goodness.
In a similar manner, the natural moral law flows from the nature of man, not his will. This is one of the reasons that the practice of modern democracy, which decides morality based on a conglomeration of human wills (i.e, leaving individuals to vote whether or not to “legalize” abortion, whether or not to redefine marriage to allow “homosexual-marriage”), is likewise against the natural moral law.
Thus, the main principle against abortion and contraception is one and the same: It is never lawful to exercise an act and reject the end for which the act is designed.
Sarah Palin, as with many in the pro-life movement, does not understand this principle, or perhaps has never had it sufficiently explained to her. Millions of Americans will cast their vote against the rabidly pro-abortion, pro-homosexual Obama, and rightly so. In this instance, as in all instances, each individual must act according to a true christian conscience. For, the existence of the unborn child is hanging on who is voted into office, come November.
Dear Christian, how are you going to explain to the Divine and Strict Judge, why you cast a vote for a presidential candidate who, like Lucifer, is a murderer from the beginning, and has vowed to murder humans before they are even born, by passing unjust laws that will see babies aborted on a scale hitherto unforeseen?
Dear Christian, how are you going to explain, to the Divine and Rigorous Judge, to whom no thought can be hidden, your decision to vote candidates who pass laws legalizing the evil of homosexuality, thus blatantly defying God's Will ?
Dear Christian, had you been present during the revolt, prior to the fall of the bad angels, would you have sided with God or with Lucifer?
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Posted - 11/26/2008 : 02:41:36
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Obama Selecting the Most Anti-Life, Anti-Family Radicals He Can Find for Administration
President-elect unveils plans to dismantle federal legal protection for marriage
By Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In light of further actual and rumored appointments, Obama's future presidential administration is steadily emerging as a regime ominously packed with Obama insiders who promise to help roll out the carpet for the President-elect's radical anti-life and anti-family agenda.
Media outlets recently named Arizona governor Janet Napolitano as Obama's probable choice for secretary of Homeland Security.
An early Obama supporter and campaigner, Napolitano firmly established herself as an extreme abortion supporter by vetoing the partial birth abortion ban, and in one month she vetoed four anti-abortion bills. In 2005 NARAL warmly praised the governor for vetoing a bill that would have allowed Arizona pharmacies not to distribute the abortifacient morning-after pill due to a moral or religious objection.
Tom Dashcle has recently been named as the likely candidate for the next Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), an appointment Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said gives pro-lifers a "frightening glimpse" into the new Cabinet.
The former Democratic Senate majority leader gained notoriety for his liberal views on abortion when he opposed the partial-birth abortion ban, endorsed taxpayer-funded military abortions, and supported taxpayer funding to provide morning-after pills to young public school girls. Perkins also lamented that Daschle, a man with no experience in public health, is on track to become the ultimate authority on federal health issues.
One of the national co-chairs for Obama's presidential campaign, Daschle warmed early on to Obama and in 2007 gushed that the Illinois senator "personifies the future of Democratic leadership in our country."
Another likely future HHS member is Dr. Robin Alta Charo, a highly liberal professor of law and bioethics and former member of Clinton's Bioethics Advisory Commission, who was appointed to Obama's transition team Friday. Charo had been a member of Obama's pre-election team, where she managed science and health policy matters.
Bioethicist Wesley J. Smith took Charo's appointment as a further sign that the Obama administration "is going to push full speed ahead" with destructive embryonic stem-cell research. Charo once called Smith, who is a prominent pro-life advocate in the world of bioethics, a leader of "the endarkenment."
"We are entering very dark days," said Smith on the appointment.
Pro-abortion juggernaut Sen. Hillary Clinton, whose liberal views on just about every possible social issue are no secret, has also emerged as Obama's favored choice for Secretary of State.
Meanwhile, Mr. Obama is quickly establishing his public solidarity with the homosexual movement.
Obama recently laid out on his website a "civil rights agenda" that includes, to the satisfaction of homosexual lobbyists, the dismantling of legal protections for marriage. He intends to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, the act that protects natural marriage that is currently enshrined in federal law, and accordingly opposes a federal Constitutional amendment to protect marriage.
Obama has also promised to expand "hate crime" enforcement and legislation by enacting the Matthew Shepard Act, which would allow a perceived bias against homosexuality to be prosecuted. Obama will also enforce non-discrimination in businesses regarding homosexuality, which could force business owners to hire a certain quota of homosexuals.
Finally, Obama's website confirms that the president-elect will push to open adoption to homosexual couples, and make military service more available to homosexuals.
According to gay news outlets, officials in the president-elect's transition team have so far assigned 7 openly homosexual individuals to transition review panels, 3 of which were high-ranking Clinton administration officials. Reports also say Obama is considering deputy campaign strategist and open homosexual Steve Hildebrand as the next Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, replacing Howard Dean.
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Posted - 12/29/2008 : 09:14:01
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Christmas Pastoral Letter of Archbishop Hayes
Editor’s note: In this beautiful and hard-hitting 1921 pastoral, New York’s Archbishop Hayes (later he became a Cardinal in 1924) treats of Christmas; the Holy Family; Christian Family life; and the evils of contraception and divorce. Oh for the days when an American Bishop would speak like this.
Dearly Beloved of the Clergy and Laity:
Christmas comes again to bless us with heavenly grace and brighten with eternal hope our journey through this vale of tears. The vale, in many respects, was never gloomier, and the tears seldom less bitter. The world's material progress, rich in power and promise a few years ago, has lamentably failed, in the supreme hour of need, to stand the strain of the terrible affliction of war. We have been groping for the wall, as Isaias the prophet says, --and "like the blind we have groped as if we had no eyes, we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness" (Is. 59:10). Divine light and strength have been ever at our side; but man would have none of it. Being a law and guide to himself he has been groping in vain for peace and the solution of the world's appalling problems. Though God has visited the children of men with a scourge of their own making, He still loves us with infinite love and would comfort us with an all-forgiving and all-healing compassion.
Over the ashes of war, over the sufferings of mankind, over the distress of nations there appears on the world's horizon, with His exalted Mother and His humble Foster Father, the Divine Child of the ages of prophecy and fulfillment--"the Key of David and Scepter of the House of Israel; that openeth and no man shutteth; and shutteth and no man openeth; coming to lead out of bondage man sitting in darkeness and the shadow of death." Jesus, Mary, Joseph bring Bethlehem,--starry sky and sleeping hills; the shepherds and the sheep; the patient watches and the awing silence of the night; the darkness of the earth and the light of Heaven; the song of the Angels and the star of the Magi; the warm, cheery inn and the forbidding, bleak stable; the ox and the donkey; the straw of the manger and the bare, cold ground of the cave; and the gold, frankincense and myrrh from Saba with the dromedaries of Madian and Epha.
In the entire panorama of Bethlehem thus unfolded the only thing made by human hand, and not by God, was the inn that refused a roof to the Child. The stable-cave has been held in blessed honor ever since; the inn in everlasting condemnation. No one knows the site of the inn nor the name of its inhospitable keeper. Still on that heavenly night it was the many who walked the path to the inn for bodily comfort and passing pleasure; only the few, led by Angels and inspired by grace, sought the stable, and beheld the wondrous revelation of Emmanuel, God with us, the Lord of Lords, the Prince of Peace, the Savior of mankind.
There is nothing wrong with God's beautiful world--the universe formed and fashioned by His hand. Only the world of pride, lust and self, created by man and alien to God, has been judged and found wanting both by Heaven and earth. To redeem us from the bondage of sin Our Heavenly Father sends not the plagues of Egypt to afflict us, but His own Beloved Son, the Babe of Bethlehem, "for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be contradicted" (St. Luke, II, 34).
On that holy night in Bethlehem a new spiritual and sublime standard of life, thought and action was given to men until the end of time. The Holy Family became the ideal, the law and the copy of childhood, womanhood, parental duty, home-making and the dignity of labor. Innocence of children, purity of woman, chastity of man, poverty, honest toil, humble station, obedience and patience were embraced, sanctified and taught by God Himself as precious and essential for our welfare here and hereafter. Riches, worldly honor, exalted position, great learning, and success,--laudable though they be when sought, reached and used within right reason--all are secondary, unnecessary, and often dangerous, in God's plan, for the following of Christ and the salvation of our immortal souls.
Let us first consider the Child. Christ, the Son of God, coming into the world as a babe has given to human birth a sacredness that compels the Angels to reverence. In Heaven He had His Eternal Father but no mother; on earth He would have a mother but no father in the flesh. The Christ Child did not stay His own entrance into this mortal life, because His mother was poor, roofless, and without provision for the morrow. He knew that His Heavenly Father, who cared for the lilies of the fields and the birds of the air, loved the children of men more than these. Children troop down from Heaven because God wills it. He alone has the right to stay their coming while he blesses at will some homes with many, others with but a few or with none at all. They come in the one way ordained by His wisdom. Woe to those who degrade, pervert, or do violence to the law of nature as fixed by the eternal decree of God Himself! Even though some little angels in the flesh, through the moral, mental or physical deformity of parents, may appear to human eyes hideous, misshapen, a blot on civilized society, we must not lose sight of this Christian thought that under and within such visible malformation there lives an immortal soul to be saved and glorified for all eternity among the Blessed of Heaven.
Heinous is the sin committed against the creative act of God, Who through the marriage contract invites man and woman to cooperate with Him in the propagation of the human family. To take life after its inception is a horrible crime; but to prevent human life that the Creator is about to bring into being, is satanic. In the first instance, the body is killed, while the soul lives on; in the latter, not only a body but an immortal soul is denied existence in time and in eternity. It has been reserved to our day to see advocated shamelessly the legalizing of such a diabolical thing.
In the name of the Babe of Bethlehem, Whose law you Christian fathers and mothers love and obey, stop your ears to that pagan philosophy, worthy of a Herod, which ignoring revelation and even human wisdom sets itself above the law and the prophets of the Old and the New Dispensation, of which the Christ Child is the beginning, the bond and end. Keep far from the sanctuary of your Christian homes, as you would an evil spirit, the literature of this unclean abomination. Sin not against children who, after all, are the noblest stimulus and protection to marital affection, fidelity and continency.
The Babe of Bethlehem comes also to restore reverence for parents--as much needed today as reverence for childhood. If parental authority is fast becoming a byword, it is because parents have failed in their reverence and guidance of childhood according to spiritual standards. Their own children have turned to punish them. God is the supreme sanction of all authority. Neglecting God's law by irreligious or indulgent lives parents have lost, to an alarming degree, their God-given authority over their offspring, who in nursery and school, in sport and society, in literature and art, see, hear, talk of, and, too often, live a freedom of thought and action that knows neither the conventions nor the moral restraint of Christian society. Parents to rule wisely should obey reverently the higher law of God and by example and precept teach their children how elementary in life is the duty to obey authority, Divine and human, domestic and civil. Not the Church alone, but thoughtful men and women, leaders in many spheres of life, are lamenting the deplorable and rebellious spirit of our youth against the restraints of home and family life. It is not within the power of human fear or selfish interest to secure obedience, except it be a servility that cannot be trusted in the building of character. The one lofty motive to inspire the young to reverence and obedience is Christ's own obedience to Mary and Joseph; to them, the creatures of His own hand, the Creator and Lord of the universe was willingly subject in Bethlehem and Nazareth.
Many of humanity's gravest problems would cease to be, if the leadership of Christ, as the Little Child leading, were more fully recognized and followed in the care and training of children and in the upbuilding of the Christian home.
Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XV, in the Motu proprio on St. Joseph, sounds a solemn note: "The sanctity of conjugal fidelity and respect for paternal authority have been grievously transgressed by many during the war; the remoteness of one spouse served to relax the bond of duty in the other, and the absence of a watchful eye gave rise to freer and more indulgent conduct, more particularly amongst the younger members of the female sex." Christmas is a Divine call to woman. The Virgin Mother is placed by God before all womanhood as an example of purity, devotion, and duty. Her whole being is consecrated to the exalted office of motherhood. Christ not only would be a child, but He would have a mother--and an immaculate one, that man might know the mind of God with regard to woman's place in the world. Providence ordained that God's own Mother, deprived of wealth, fame and social prestige, should have no distractions in her motherhood, except the temple and the home. The sublime simplicity of woman's mission seems no longer fashionable. The eternal commonplaces of building the home by rocking the cradle, spinning the wheel, preparing the meal, making the fireside cheery, teaching the children to pray reverently and live justly are more vital to the permanent good of society and the nation than the wisest legislation conceivable to offset the dangers lying in woman's new freedom and uncertain adventure that may leave in their wake empty cradles and homeless communities.
Another Christian lesson the world needs to learn is God's law against divorce. The Gospel tells of Mary's severe trial when "Joseph, her husband, being a just man, was minded to put her away privately. But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep" (Matt. I, 19-20) and prevented him doing so. Divorce has become a national curse; and the evil is spreading. Verily it is a deadly disease in our body politic, not to speak of the moral and spiritual harm born of broken homes, broken hearts, seared souls, abandoned children and unholy alliances.
Disastrous beyond possibility of description to society is the condition when women measure their lives, not by the number of their offspring but by the number of their husbands. Pagan Rome, at the height of its imperial power, with a conquered world paying tribute to the Caesars, sealed slowly but surely its own doom. No foe without proved as terrible an enemy as corruption within. Widespread divorce desecrated the sanctuary of the family with the consequent degradation of woman. The constructive forces of the empire were weakened by the deadly moral poisons that Roman society absorbed into its very vitals and took no means to throw off. When this happens in the human body, death follows.
Let us thank our Heavenly Father for the valiant women we all know--and their name is legion--who with the highest ideals of wifehood and motherhood carry on heroically the honor of the family. Neither height nor depth, nor sorrow nor pain, nor sin of husband nor ingratitude of children, nor privation nor loss, nor opportunity of comfort nor lure of pleasure can tempt such noble women to shirk their duty or break up their home. Silently, patiently, cheerfully and holily they spend themselves and are spent for the spiritual and temporal welfare of their own flesh and blood in their children. Mary, the Mother of Christ, strengthens with the grace and fortitude of Heaven such wonderful mothers, who are one of the most sacred benedictions on this earth.
Since Our Savior, the only begotten Son of the Eternal Father, deigned to be called the "Son of the Carpenter," and since Mary, the Mother of Christ, rejoiced to be known as the "Spouse of the Carpenter," we may readily understand the dignity of the person and office of Joseph in the Holy Family. God evidently would teach through St. Joseph that the supreme dignity of man rests not on a temporal or human foundation but essentially on our relation to Christ, the God-man. The Incarnation elevated human nature to the supernatural order, in which man must live, move and have his being, if our human nature is to reach its highest and noblest expression and purpose in conformity with the Divine Will.
St. Joseph, a poor and obscure workingman in the eyes of the world, was raised in the sight of God and the Angels, to a dignity with which none of earthly origin can be compared. Yet Joseph was nothing more than the faithful head of Holy Family, neither prophet nor priest, nor apostle nor teacher. Nor did he present the heroic figures of Joseph of old in Egypt, or of David, the Shepherd King of Israel. By the labor of his hands, he cared in poverty for Jesus and Mary. He led them amid most harassing circumstances to Bethlehem, Nazareth and across the sands of the desert to Egypt and back. The humble home and little family were his universe of love and service. In comparison with the Babe and the Mother, through whom God manifested His infinite love and mercy, the imperial glory of the Caesars, the jeweled palace of Herod, the gorgeous gardens of the Pharaohs and the undying fame symbolized by the Pyramids were but dead sea fruit to Joseph's mind. His example fixes the real values of human life. Father and husband, ruler and subject, employer and employee, rich and poor--all should pattern their lives and perform their duties in the spirit of this "just man." This justice means reverence for religion; obedience to lawful authority; fair dealing on the part of capital; honest work on the part of labor; purification of wealth; sanctification of poverty.
This Christmas pastoral I place most humbly in the hands of St. Joseph, whom the clergy, the religious and the faithful are honoring in our churches and chapels this day, at the very hour I am writing the final words of this message to my beloved children in Christ.
Praying the Infant Savior to bless most abundantly with every Christmas grace the entire flock, I am, Faithfully your Shepherd,
PATRICK JOSEPH,
Archbishop of New York.
In Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the
Proclamation of St. Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church.
December 14, 1921.
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spaxx
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Posted - 06/04/2009 : 13:20:11
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Obama's Elite Agenda: Black Abortion for Profit
by Richard Evans (Senior Correspondent, HM.com)
In a 1934 letter, Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, wrote to her financial sponsor, Clarence Gamble (the Proctor & Gamble heir):
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Speaking before Rockefeller sponsored Planned Parenthood's 'Action fund' banquet July 17th 2007, candidate Barack Obama made his public announcement that his 'first act as President' would be signing FOCA ("Freedom of Choice Act").
The "Freedom of Choice" act amounts to de-regulation of the abortion industry and provides free federally funded abortions on demand. Obama is that 'colored minister with social-service background and engaging personality' Sanger envisioned.
Planned Parenthood's slogan last year -- "why should I be punished with a baby?" -- was featured in television commercial campaigns.
Obama mouthed this very slogan at a campaign speech in Johnstown PA:"I have two daughters. If they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby".
PLANNED PARENTHOOD TARGETS BLACK ABORTIONS
PLANNED PARENTHOOD operates the largest chain of abortion clinics in the US. It has more than 850 "Health Centers" (abortion centers), 80% are in minority neighborhoods. The organization performed 22 percent of all abortions in 2005 (260,000 out of 1.2 million abortions.)
According to a Fox TV story, "Blacks do, indeed, have much higher rates of abortions than whites or other minority groups. In 2000, while blacks made up 17 percent of live births, they made up more than twice that share of abortions (36 percent). If those aborted children had been born, the number of blacks born would have been slightly over 50 percent greater than it was.
The comparison with whites and other minorities is striking. Whites made up 78 percent of live births, but only 57 percent of abortions. Non-black minorities had 7 percent of live births and 5 percent of abortions. Data from 1973 on indicate that black women's share of abortions has consistently been at least twice their share of live births."
According to "Klan Parenthood," A black baby is three times more likely to be
murdered in the womb than a white baby. Since 1973, abortion has reduced the black population by over 25 percent. Twice as many African-Americans have died from abortion than have died from AIDS, accidents, violent crimes, cancer, and heart disease combined. Every three days, more African-Americans are killed by abortion than have been killed by the Ku Klux Klan in its entire history. About 13 percent of American women are black, but they submit to over 35 percent of the abortions."
THE ABORTION INDUSTRY
Bernard Nathanson, M.D., co-founder of pro-abortion "National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws" recalled creating the slogans for 'pro-choice' public relations with Betty Friedan back in 1968. Such slogans included, "Women must have control over their own bodies." , and "Freedom of choice - a basic American right."
"I remember laughing when we made those slogans up. We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical."
It was a racket. Promote the breakdown of marriage while simultaneously promoting promiscuous sex behavior, with abortion as handy backup birth control. The only thing better would be if the federal government covered the abortion cost for impoverished teens - the very demographic targeted by Sanger's eugenics agenda.
Nathanson and other former abortionists and clinic personnel have come clean after becoming revulsed by the rampant profiteering of abortion providers. Nathanson says all abortion doctors and staff are well aware they're in the business of terminating live human beings. After performing thousands of procedures, literally butchering the unborn, all rationalizations break down.
Thousands of young women die annually from botched legal abortions performed at a rate of 120 procedures per urban clinic per day, 8 am to midnight shifts, seven days a week. Nathanson himself estimates he's performed 75,000 abortions during his career as an abortionist. The average cost to the patient for an abortion is around $480.00.
Doctors and staff who do the dirty work are expendable and replaceable. Abortion clinics now are operated as large franchises with profits going to their boards and shareholders. Only so much profit can be had from the abortion market alone, which with Obama's signing of FOCA will reach saturation shortly. Tax payer funded abortion will increase the numbers to the maximum, but the corporate owners and investors of this industry want more profit.
Human baby corpses --stem cells and tissue-- are worth money. What's left of the ban on wholesale harvesting of aborted human cell tissue has cost investors billions of dollars a year.
Margaret Sanger and Heinrich Himmler probably never dreamed that exterminating 'undersirables' could be so profitable. Sanger merely wanted to rid American society of 'weeds'. Himmler dreamed of his Aryan supermen perpetuating the thousand year Fourth Reich. |
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spaxx
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Posted - 09/15/2009 : 07:37:19
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The Catholic Church:
The Divinely Ordained Protector of Human Life
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
The future of the pro-life movement throughout the world depends on the Roman Catholic Church. To know this is to begin to understand the real issues underlying the wanton murder of over fifty million unborn children every year. To believe this is also to see some hope of stemming the tide that has made the 20th century the most homicidal century in human history.
We begin by reminding ourselves that, except for Christianity, we would not have a true understanding of the sanctity of human life. Until Christianity came into the world, there was only a rampant paganism in the Roman Empire. As early as the year 80 AD, the Christian document, The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, told the faithful, "You shall not procure an abortion; you shall not destroy unborn human life."
Before the year 130 AD, the letter to Barnabas was equally clear. It identified abortion as a crime committed by those who walk the way of darkness. Christians were told, "There are two ways of instruction, there are two powers: that of Light and that of Darkness, and there is a great difference between these two ways. The one is controlled by the devil, who is the ruler of those who profess to believe in eternal life."
In the last two millennia, the Catholic Church has remained faithful to these revealed convictions. And it is the Catholic Church who remains today as the Mother and Teacher of the nations, teaching them that human life is not only a precious possession of man but is sacred because it belongs to God. The Catholic Church stands alone in the world today, against the twin evils of abortion and homosexuality that are threatening to swamp the world.
Abortion is not only injustice against an unborn human being, it is the desecration of something holy. Those in the pro-life movement who are Christians believe they are defending not only the equity of a human person. They are defending the sanctity of human life and the majesty of living God.
The Meaning of Sacred
Sanctity and sacred are simply the noun and adjective which somehow pertain to God. So we should speak of the sanctity of human life because it is God-like. Thus we may distinguish two kinds of reality, one that we call profane and the other we call sacred. How do they differ?
- The sacred is eternal; the profane is temporal
- The sacred comes directly from God; the profane, though ultimately from God, comes from creatures
- The sacred is spiritual; the profane is material
- The sacred is heavenly; the profane is terrestrial
- The sacred is made to the image of God because, like Him, it can know and love; the profane is incapable of knowledge and love
- The sacred is the purpose of our existence, and the goal of our destiny; the profane is only the road on the way to our destiny and the means of achieving the purpose of our creation
How is Human Life Sacred?
Human life is sacred on all the premises of revealed Christianity. The sanctity of human life is the foundation of the Christian religion.
It is sacred because when God made the universe, He first made the inanimate world of sun, moon and stars, and then the non-rational world of plants and animals. Finally, He made man, as we are told, in His own likeness.
This means that He made man to share in His own divine powers of perceiving with an intellect patterned after the intellect of God; of choosing with a freedom modeled after the freedom of God; and of loving others in a human society similar to the eternal love of the divine community of the Holy Trinity.
But this was only the beginning of how human life is sacred. Ever since the origin of the parents of the human race, every time a human being is conceived, God directly and immediately creates a human soul. The parents provide the body; but only God can create i.e. make out of nothing, the soul which is to animate the body and make it a human person.
Regardless of how it is conceived, human life is sacred because each human being is personally willed by God in order to know, love and serve Him, and thereby reach its heavenly home in the Beatific Vision of the Holy Trinity. It does not matter if the child is conceived within the framework of marriage, or is the outcome of adultery, fornication, or rape.
Human life is sacred because, unlike the rest of the visible world, we are free to choose to love and serve God. Indeed, the rest of the world was made to help us glorify God by our faith in Him our hope in Him, and our love for Him.
Human life is sacred because God became man in order to redeem us from sin and teach us by word and example how we are to become more and more like Him, who is our Savior and Lord.
Human life is sacred because at Baptism we receive a share in God’s own life. In us dwells the Holy Trinity, and by His grace we are able to do what God in His goodness gives us the power of performing such as:
- loving others with selfless charity
- practicing chastity after the example of Jesus and Mary
- enduring suffering patiently
- seeing in everything in our lives, in every person, every want, every situation, in every pleasure and every pain, the loving presence of God who sustains the world in existence and is thus leading us through time to a blessed eternity.
Human life is sacred because, by the grace of God, we can understand by faith that there are no problems in life. What we call problems are all acts of Divine Providence. Either we do not know what God wants, and so we are tempted to call it a problem. But we believe that, if we pray, He will show us what He wants us to do; or we do know what is God’s will, but we are afraid or feel helpless to do it.
Again we believe that, if we pray for the strength, He enables us to conform to His loving but very demanding divine will.
The Rights of God
We correctly speak of the rights of the unborn children to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Even the American Supreme Court Justices who legalized abortion all admitted that if the unborn fetus were a human person, then its right to life would be guaranteed and protected by the civil law. It was only by incredibly denying personhood to the unborn child that the Supreme Court dared to legalize the murder of pre-born human beings.
Most of the defense of unborn human life is therefore, and understandably, a defense of the rights of the innocent children in their mothers’ wombs.
But our stress here is on abortion as a criminal violation of the rights of God.
All that we have seen about the sanctity of human life is the foundation of what we are saying here.
Because human life is sacred from the moment of conception, it belongs to God. Any violation of this sacred human life is consequently a violation of the rights of God. Once that is realized, many conclusions follow.
Abortion thus becomes not only an offense against human dignity, but a crime against the Divinity.
Abortion thus comes to be seen as rooted not so much in a selfish insistence on a woman’s right to take human life. It is a denial of the claims of the God who made that woman and her child.
In one country after another, the abortionists are now speaking of choice. The only choice that a woman has is to do what God wants her to do. That is why she has a free will.
The root cause of abortion is the same as the cause of what took place on Good Friday. God had become man, and for thirty years He lived in obscurity. Then He began to preach the doctrine that no prophet of the Old Law had ever proclaimed. He told His contemporaries, "the Father and I are one." He taught that those who believe in Him are to love one another as He, who is God, has loved them. Those who did not believe that Jesus was telling the truth, killed Him. Remember what Peter told the people after He had cured the paralytic at the gate of the temple? He told them, "you have killed the Author of life." The crucifixion was attempted deicide.
In its own way, abortion is a form of deicide. It is an attack on God by trying to destroy what belongs to God.
Since the root cause of abortion is attempted deicide, the death of God philosophy put into practice, supernatural means must be used to even control, let alone cure, this deadly virus that now plagues the human race.
God permits no evil in the world without a proportionate reason. Given the magnitude of this practical atheism in the modern world, we should be confident that God will mysteriously draw immense good from the evil of abortion.
The practical implications of this truth are numerous. They can be summarized in two terms, grace and free will.
- Without a superabundance of God’s grace, abortion cannot be overcome
- Without the free cooperation of human beings with God’s grace, abortion will not only be overcome, but will spawn a host of other evils in its train
Sources of Grace
There are three main sources of grace available to us from the mercy of God. They are prayer, the sacraments and the practice of virtue. If we use these means, the graces will be given and sanity can be restored in a world that is giving to Caesar what belongs to God.
The Power of Prayer. If there is one theme that runs through the teaching of Christ, it is the power of prayer.
Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that asks, it shall be opened (Matthew 7:7-8).
All things whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive (Matthew 21:22).
Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, that I will do; that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask me anything in my name, that I will do (John 14:13-14).
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you (John 15:7).
The efficacy of our prayer, however, depends on our faith. Christ promised to work miracles if we ask Him, provided we believe He is almighty God.
As we reread the Gospels, it is both inspiring and sobering to see what wonders Christ performed in favor of those who earnestly begged Him and had faith in His power to do the humanly impossible.
To stem the tide of abortion will require a series of moral miracles. By definition a moral miracle is a visible effect produced by God which exceeds the native powers of the human will. We may be sure that Christ wants to work these miracles. When He rebuked the disciples, and told them to “let the little children come unto me,” He was speaking to all of us. He wants the children conceived to be born, to reach maturity, and glorify Him by their loving service. But Christ demands that we pray in faith and trust in His divine power to change hearts of stone into hearts of selfless love for the unborn.
The Efficacy of the Sacraments. There are two sacraments that especially provide the grace necessary to conquer abortion. They are the Eucharist and Confession. And they should be seen together.
We correctly associate the Eucharist with the Mass and Holy Communion. What we may not realize is that the early Christians attended Mass and received the Eucharist every day. They were taught by the Holy Spirit that the legalized abortion and infanticide of pagan Rome could be overcome by their daily participation in the renewal of the Sacrifice of Calvary and daily reception of the Eucharistic Christ.
But we know that the Eucharist is not limited to Mass and Communion. Jesus Christ is really present in the Blessed Sacrament, whether reserved in our churches and chapels or exposed on the altar for veneration and intercession by the faithful. It is the same Jesus, now glorified, who stilled the storm at sea and raised the dead Lazarus back to life. It is the same Jesus who performed wonders during His visible stay in Palestine. He wants to do the same in our day, again provided we have the faith. To convert selfish wills to stop murdering children may be a greater miracle than calling Lazarus from the tomb. But Christ can do it, if only we ask Him, now on earth in the Eucharist, to perform this sign of His omnipotence.
The Sacrament of Penance as the Sacrament of Confession, should be received at least twice a month. The Church tells us as much when she prescribes confession and Holy Communion within eight days in order to gain a plenary indulgence. Of course, there need be no grave sins to confess. That is the whole purpose of what are “confessions of devotion.” They are potent channels of grace for the massive conversion of sinners if ever the mania of abortion is to cease.
The Practice of Virtue. We merit grace by cooperating with the graces we receive. This practice of virtue benefits not only the person who performs a good work, but also obtains grace for others.
Who would doubt that abortionists and their clients need divine grace to see the horror of their crimes and to have the courage to desist? Where can they obtain this grace? From God, of course. But in His ordinary providence, God uses persons who are in His friendship to merit for sinners—here the agents of abortion—the spiritual light and strength to return to the God from whom they have strayed.
The measure of the graces needed for this cosmic repentance tells us something about the degree of virtue that the friends of God are expected to practice. Nothing less than heroic patience in suffering, united with the Passion of Christ. Nothing less than heroic faith in believing, united with Mary as she stood on Calvary. Nothing less than heroic chastity in resisting the allurements of a world intoxicated with sexual immorality. Nothing less than heroic charity in loving those who ignore us or oppose us or deride our loyalty to Christ as psychosis, can obtain the ocean of divine mercy that alone can restore the rights of God over the human life which begins at conception and is destined to continue into eternity.
Cooperation with the Grace of God
Human beings have a free will. They can either cooperate with the graces that God gives them, or they can resist these graces and commit sin.
All that we have said so far is simply fundamental Catholic doctrine. When Christ at the Last Supper said, “Without me you can do nothing,”, He meant that without His grace we CANNOT reach heaven. And the proponents and practitioners of abortion will not reach heaven unless they are converted from their evil ways. To be converted, they must receive an abundance of divine grace that we can obtain for them by our prayers, receiving the sacraments, and the practice, if need be, of heroic virtue.
But the graces received must be responded to. God does not coerce anyone to do His will.
It is here that the Catholic Church’s teaching on the sixth and ninth commandments is so basic to the pro-life movement. Unless these two commandments are observed, the fifth commandment will inevitably be violated.
This deserves closer scrutiny, and needs to be understood with perfect clarity.
The sixth commandment forbids all external sins against chastity.
- It forbids fornication or sexual relations between an unmarried man and woman
- It forbids adultery, or sexual relations between a man and woman, where either one or both are already married
- It forbids homosexuality, or sexual relations between persons of the same gender
- It forbids masturbation, or the deliberate arousal of sex pleasure in one’s own body
The ninth commandment forbids all internal sins against chastity. It obliges us to control our sexual thoughts and desires. It forbids us to indulge these interior movements contrary to the will of God.
But then we ask, how is the observance of the sixth and ninth commandments of God, prescribing chastity, necessary to keep the fifth commandment, which forbids the killing of innocent unborn human beings. It is a necessity of cause and effect. As the history of the human race has shown, unless the imperious sexual drive is kept under control, a society loses its respect for unborn human life.
The closer we examine this cause and effect relationship, the more obvious it becomes.
The divinely ordained purpose of sexual desires is for the procreation and education of children in a stable, monogamous family life. Even the corresponding purpose of fostering the mutual love of husband and wife, presumes a lifelong commitment in a faithful marriage between the two spouses.
As soon as this sacred purpose of sexual pleasure is ignored, a number of things happen.
- The focus of venereal pleasure becomes self-gratifying instead of what it should be, self-giving
- The purpose of venereal pleasure becomes egotistical instead of what it should be, altruistic
- Instead of enjoying sexual pleasure on divine terms, it becomes indulging this pleasure on one’s own terms, independent of the will of God
- Ignoring the will of God by sinful indulgence of sex pleasure darkens the mind and obscures the intellect. Otherwise intelligent people become stupefied and make themselves incapable of seeing God’s will in the most elemental precepts of the divine law
- Sexually preoccupied people are selfish people. Whether married or not, they either try to avoid having children all together, or limit the number of children to a minimum. Contraception is the hallmark of a sexually perverse society
- The primacy of sex pleasure makes conception of children a burden. Even when a child is conceived, the child is secondary in the scale of values
- So predominant can sexual pleasure become in a society, that if a child is conceived, its continued existence is secondary to the whims of the father or the mother or of both. What they want is what they want. The continued life of the child is unimportant
- When civil authority approves this kind of mentality, the legalizing of abortion becomes inevitable. This was true in the pre-Christian Roman Empire. It is true in the post-Christian countries of the modern world
In the light of the foregoing, what does cooperation with the grace of God mean? It means submitting one’s own desires, for sex pleasure, to the wise providence of God. His plan for the human race reaches beyond this earth to heaven. When He creates a human soul at a child’s conception, He does not want the unborn child to be killed and thus be deprived of the joy of serving its Creator here in time as a prelude to possessing Him in a glorious eternity.
Our task, as believers, is to gain all the graces we can for those engaged in the abortion trade and for their tragic victims. Our hope is that they will respond to the graces they are receiving. |
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