CHOOSE LIFE
“I have today set before you, life and good, death and evil. If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I am giving you today…you will live and grow numerous, and the LORD, your God, will bless you…If, however, your heart turns away and you do not obey…and bow down to other gods and serve them, I tell you today that you will certainly perish…
I have set before you, life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life that you and your descendants may live.” DEUTERONOMY 30:15
BACKGROUND
October is Respect Life Month, a time for Catholics to reflect more deeply on the God-given dignity of all human life. All lives are Sacred and gift from our Creator. I repeat, ALL LIVES!
CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person – among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.
2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law.
COMMENTARY
When is abortion permitted? NEVER! Not when a child is inconvenient…. not when the child in the womb is the wrong sex….not when child created by God is a result of rape or incest…not when child in womb may be born with some handicap….DELIBERATE ABORTION IS NEVER PERMITTED. The end never justifies an immoral means. KILLING INNOCENT LIFE IS NEVER PERMISSABLE!
NOTE: In an attempt to save a mother’s life, the life of the child in her womb may be lost in unintended consequences of saving the mother’s life.
Today, those who support abortion on demand use words to draw sympathy and support. There are many euphemisms. Some will call it Women’s Reproductive Rights. Where does the right come from? I know it isn’t God. Nor is women’s right to an Abortion in the Constitution of the United States. A person does not have a right to something just because they think they do. Think about that one and the chaos in the world that would follow.
Calling Abortion, a woman’s health issue is like calling euthanasia, death with dignity or calling same-sex marriage, marriage equality. All of it is shameful marketing to develop sympathy for deeply flawed practices.
Women claim it is their body and free to do what they want. Nonsense, the slogan, “My Body, My Choice,” betrays a tragic misunderstanding of what is taking place inside the womb.
Check out on internet the growth of the baby in the womb. By 12 weeks the baby has eyes, ears, hands, feet, toes, functioning brain and other organs apart from their mother’s.
At no point in pregnancy is the developing embryo or fetus simply a part of the mother’s body. Every cell of the baby in the womb is genetically distinct from every cell in the mother’s body. Human embryos did not originate only from the woman. The baby would not exist without the man’s seed.
Often the blood type of the baby is different from the mother’s and half the children are born male, a different sex than their mother. If a pregnant woman is killed, the murderer is charged with two homicides. It is illegal to execute a pregnant woman on death row because the fetus living inside her is a distinct human being who cannot be executed for the crimes of the mother.
Today, many consider pregnancy a disease to be preemptively attacked like a flu vaccine. Some politicians aggressively defend the right to abortion.
Just because it is legal does not make it RIGHT! Today, like so many things, just because you say it over and over again, doesn’t make it true.
The Holocaust of Germany authorized by the Nazi Government in power was a horrific ethnic cleaning of more than 6 million Jews. Over 60 million unborn babies in the US, alone, since Roe V Wade have been slaughtered due to Legal abortion of the United States Government
If a government, on its own authority, can authorize citizens to take the life of a child legally, all sorts of excesses are possible. Who has the right to live?
Stay tuned as those who favor thinning out the masses come up with new ideas for thinning the herd and who shall live and who shall die!
PRAYER CELEBRATING SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE
God, you are the Lord and Creator of Life. You have blessed men and women with the privilege of bringing new life into the world.
You have imparted in our hearts the desire to nurture and protect life at all its stages. I accept these gifts as a sacred trust.
Through the power of the Holy Spirit, Grant me the wisdom and courage to speak out and defend human life, made in Your image and likeness from conception to natural death. Amen
Thank you, Tom, for your explanation of how wrong it is to support abortion. The message cannot be stated more clearly. So, I must speak out with that message at all the opportunities that I get.
I pray the Holy Spirit gives me and us all, the grace to speak it. Amen