BURGOS, Spain, July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Archbishop of Burgos, Francisco Gil Hellín, has issued a call to Spanish Catholics to resist the country’s new abortion law, which he says is no law at all.

In a statement published on the bishops’ Catholic Information Service, Gil Hellín laments the recent promulgation of the law, an “evil law which is directly opposed to right reason and the most elemental justice. Such is the law that establishes that the Spanish have the right to kill the unborn, as long as they do it before 14 weeks.”

“Let us diagnose it with total clarity: this law is no law, although it is presented as such by some political and legislative bodies. And it isn’t because no one has the right to eliminate an innocent. For that reason, it doesn’t obligate. Even more, it demands a head-on opposition without reservation. Right reason cannot admit as a right the killing of an innocent person.”

The new abortion law, which is being contested before Spain’s Constitutional Tribunal, abolishes penalties for all abortions during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.  It also allows minors to obtain abortions without parental permission, although they must first inform their parents of their intention to do so.

The archbishop rejects arguments that claim the law is somehow valid because it was passed by the legislature and approved according to the required legal processes.

“It is a fallacy to affirm that this law has been approved by the majority of the Parliament and that this represents the majority of the citizens, or to say that if the Constitutional Tribunal decrees its conformity [with the Constitution] it would be disobedience to oppose it, and would deserve a punishment. The fallacy consists in attributing to politicians, judges, or citizens a right that they don’t have, and no one has the right to legislate that an innocent can be killed.”

“What society would continue if it declared that is the right of citizens to kill innocent persons by majority [vote]? In the best scenario it would be converted into a tyranny, against which upright persons would have to react, according to this advice by Gandhi: ‘As soon as one understands that obeying unjust laws is contrary to his dignity as a man, no tyranny can dominate him.’”

The archbishop’s strong statements were made only days before the Constitutional Tribunal is to decide if the law will be suspended while it is under review.

A previous ruling of the Tribunal in the 1980s decreed that the right to life of the unborn child is paramount except in certain cases, including danger to health, rape, or fetal deformity.

Steven W. Mosher, Population Research Institute

Prophecies of Humanae Vitae

By Father Paul Marx, OSB

On July 25, 1968, Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae re-affirmed the Catholic teaching on life, love and human sexuality. In that document, he listed the consequences of life lived outside Catholic teaching.

He predicted that:

1.    Contraception would lead to conjugal infidelity.

2.    Contraceptive practice would lead to a “general lowering of morality.”

3.    Contraception would lead men to cease respecting woman in their totality and would cause them to treat women as “mere instruments of selfish enjoyment,” rather than as cherished partners.

4.    And finally, widespread acceptance of contraception by couples would lead to a massive imposition of contraception by unscrupulous governments.

In other words, Pope Paul VI predicted that contraception would evolve from “a lifestyle choice” into a weapon of mass destruction. How dreadfully his prophecy has been vindicated by population control and coercive sterilization programs, fertility reduction quotas and the promotion of abortion literally everywhere in the world.

Contraception’s destruction of the integrity of the marital act—as unitive and procreative—has dire consequences for society and for our souls. Contraception, in other words, is a rejection of God’s view of reality. It is a wedge driven into the most intimate sphere of communion known to man outside of the Holy Sacrament of the Mass. It is a degrading poison that withers life and love both in marriage and in society.

By breaking the natural and divinely ordained connection between sex and procreation, women and men—but especially men—would focus on the hedonistic possibilities of sex. People would cease seeing sex as something that was intrinsically linked to new life and to the sacrament of marriage.

Does anyone doubt that this is where we find ourselves today?

Where: Salesian Institute Chapel, Cnr. Somerset Rd & Chiappini St , Green Point

Time: 09:30 –11.30

We will process prayerfully to the Marie Stopes Abortion Centre at 91 Bree Street Cape Town, with full permission from the City Council

Led By: Fr Andrew Cox

Times (approx) are as follows:

09.30am : Holy Sacrifice of the Mass celebrated at Salesian Institute Chapel

10.00am : Prayerful and peaceful procession to Marie Stopes, Bree Street, processing with an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Holy Rosary and Hymns

11.30am : Return Procession with Prayers and Hymns, ending with Benediction at 12pm

After Mass the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed for adoration, and some people will stay to adore the Blessed Sacrament.

Please join us – you really do make all the difference. And try to bring someone with you!

For further Information Contact The Helpers of God’s Precious Infants:

Telephone: 021-8520473 or 0822550473

P.O.Box 1601, Cape Town, 8000

Or see our website for more information about the Helpers and for a schedule of forthcoming vigils www.icon.co.za/~host/helpers/index.htm or email helpers@telkomsa.net

“Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor”

Mother Teresa

The Bill proposes that the 1996 law be amended  “so as to ensure a woman or child is able to make a fully informed choice regarding the termination of her pregnancy.”

The bill proposes that all facilities that perform abortions should provide access to proper counselling, as required by the regulations of the Act. The reality is that most facilities do not provide sufficient counselling and information about alternatives.

The bill suggests that all abortion facilities should:

(a)     have access to ultrasound equipment which must be used (i)  accurately to determine  the gestation period prior to TOP and, (ii) to provide relevant information as to the state of the development of the unborn child thereby assisting the mother to make an informed choice.

(i)   gives access to counselling which:

(i) must comply with Regulation 7 of the Regulations made under the principal Act

(ii) provides full opportunity for discussion and questions;

(iii) provides sufficient information, including electronic pictures, or diagrams and photographs, to enable the woman or child to understand the development of the unborn child;

(iv) includes discussion of the extent of the risks involved in continuing the pregnancy as set against the risks involved in terminating the pregnancy including breast cancer, depression and future difficulties in conceiving and bearing children and

(v) available alternatives to abortion including adoption and state and other support available to the mother.

For more information please contact

Cheryllyn Dudley, MP: 082 890 6520 or

Liziwe Ndalana, ACDP Parliamentary Media Liaison

Tel: 021 403 3307 / 072 103 8899