On Our Civic Responsibility for the Common Good

 See the letter by clicking here.

As a result of the Papal encyclical, Humanae Vitae, most Catholics know that all forms of artificial birth control are forbidden by the Catholic Church. However, many Catholics are not aware of the vast and crucially important distinction between CONTRACEPTIVE birth control, which involves the use of contraceptives only which prevent new life being formed, and ABORTIFACIENT birth control, which involves the use of abortifacients, which destroy new life after its formation.

Contraceptives prevent the male sperm from fertilising the female egg. This fertilisation is known as ‘conception’, which, according to irrefutable scientific and medical evidence, results in the immediate commencement of the new human life. Contraceptives include sterilisation and also the so-called ‘barrier’ methods: the condom, the diaphragm, and the cervical cap; and the anti-sperm methods such as the sponge, jellies, foams and creams.

Abortifacients, however, actually cause early abortions, and to put it bluntly, all kill pre-born children. They prevent the continued existence in the womb of the fertilised egg, the new human life, and thereby cause little sons and daughters to die.

 Abortifacients include: the Pill, which has both contraceptive and abortifacient functions: the I.U.D, (intra-uterine device), an abortifacient only: Norplant, a series of capsules implanted under the skin, which has both contraceptive and abortifacient functions: Depo Provera, an injection received at three-monthly intervals, which also has both contraceptive and abortifacient functions: and the RU 486 drug, an abortifacient only, and aptly termed a ‘human pesticide’.

However, ‘THE PILL’, the collective term for all the birth control drugs, is probably the most insidious abortifacient as its users usually intend contraception only, and are unaware of its (unpredictable and undetectable) abortive potential, soon after (accidental) conception.

Thus, while contraceptives prevent the actual creation of the new human life in the womb, abortifacients in fact destroy this new life after its creation, and very few forms of artificial birth control are only contraceptive, and not also abortifacient in nature.

This brief summary does NOT attempt to justify contraceptive, as opposed to abortifacient birth control on the basis that the former is the lesser evil: it DOES, however try to illustrate, especially to those persons using abortifacients in ignorance of their tragic results, the extremely serious consequences of abortifacient birth control generally. Damian McLeish. March 2011

 (Wolfgang will be in Durban from 8-14 Feb. and is available for speaking engagements there – contact us if you would like to host a talk)

 SPEAKING SCHEDULE FOR CAPE TOWN AND JOHANNESBURG

Tuesday 15 February: (Cape Town)

Time:5.00pm

Venue: St Stephens, Rocklands

Protection of unborn children: What everyone can do to save the life of a baby! 

Contact: Sally 0822550473

Wednesday 16 February: (Cape Town)

Time: 07.00pm

Venue: St Mary of the Angels, Athlone

Contact: Sally 0822550473

Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 February: (Cape Town)

Pro-Life Retreat Weekend,

Time: 10.00am to 3.00pm

Venue: Mater Domini Home (formerly House Sion) 10 1^st Avenue Claremont

Including: Love- and Lifestyle of the modern western world: Blessing or Curse for me and my country? 

Steps of Grace: The healing from Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS) – (important for priests and counsellors)

Love and Contraception – Unborn Life and abortion: How can I find “My Way” to a fulfilled and free life?

Culture of Life – Culture of death: Quo Vadis, Africa?  

Good future for Germany? – How could it happen, that in the Christian heart of Europe about 1000 Unborn Children have to die every working day?

Contact: Sally 0822550473

Tuesday, 22^nd February: (Johannesburg)

How the Rosary prayer stops abortion on all continents

Time: 7.30p.m.

Venue: Our Lady of the Cedars, Woodmead.

This will be at a charismatic group for the beginning of their Life in the Spirit Seminar.  

Contact – Alice Grotta 072 4422453

Wednesday, 23^rd February (Johannesburg)

Western Europe said “No” to Life. The fruits of rejecting “Humanae vitae”

Time: 7.00p.m.

Venue: St Augustine’s Catholic University, Victory Park

Contact – Jenny Harrington 072 673 2521

Thursday, 24^th February (Johannesburg)

The beauty and holiness of every life

Time: 11.00a.m.

Venue: St Benedict’s College.

The matriculants of 3 Catholic schools will be gathering for mass and lunch. Wolfgang will address them for 40 minutes after lunch at approximately 12 noon.

Contact Grant Hanouch 083 235 7184

Thursday, 24^th February (Johannesburg)

“The Culture of Life – Culture of Death”

Time: 7.00 for 7.30p.m.

Venue: The Cathedral of Christ the King

Duration 40 min. Contact Fr Shaun von Lillienfeld

Friday 25^th February (Cape Town)

Saving Lives and souls for God: the Sidewalk Counselling in front of abortion “clinics”. (Workshop)

Time: 12.00pm to 3.00pm

Venue: Mater Domini Home (formerly House Sion) 10 1^st Avenue Claremont

Contact: Sally 0822550473

Saturday 26^th February (Cape Town)

LARGE PRAYER VIGIL, led by Fr Telford Bray, from Salesian Institute, Greenpoint,. To Marie Stopes Clinic in Bree Street. Starts with Mass at 9.30am

Followed by talk by Wolfgang How the Rosary prayer stops abortion on all continents: 20 years “Helpers of God’s Precious Infants”

Time: 12.00pm

Venue: Salesian Institute,

PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU WOULD LIKE WOLFGANG TO SPEAK TO YOUR GROUP OR PARISH IN FEBRUARY.

Cost: Free (Donations to cover costs welcome)

ALL WELCOME.