By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
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.”
Anti-abortion march attracts thousands
‘The hands of South Africa’s lawmakers are dripping with blood.’ said Archbishop Buti Tlhagale to more than 2,000 anti-abortionists who marched on Saturday 13 March with the Archbishop from the Cathedral of Christ the King to Constitution Hill where officials from the Department of Health accepted a petition addressed to the Minister of Health calling for an end to abortion.
In order to argue against abortion it is necessary to show that the embryo/foetus has moral status; in other words that it is the type of being which is morally significant and should not be killed unjustifiably. Human infants after birth are generally accepted to be these types of being.
If we proceed from the assumption that, after birth, human infants are beings with moral status (who therefore enjoy a right to life), the onus is on pro-abortion advocates to show how the nature of a newborn infant is different from the foetus before birth;
by Fr. Benedict Groeschel
I knew it would be a moving scene-and it was. They sat quietly praying the
rosary in the middle of the wide driveway. The elderly bishop looked like he
came out of a Norman Rockwell painting, while the young friar with him
resembled a figure in a Giotto fresco in the medieval Basilica of St. Francis.
Every demonstration has a sense of drama – a clash of ideas-people dedicated
to opposing points of view and holding them with real emotion.
Brian Clowes
Introduction
Back in the late 1960s in the United States, pro-abortion groups promised us that the rewards would be great if we legalized abortion. A group called NARAL promised us that “Legal abortion will decrease the number of unwanted children, child abuse cases, and possibly subsequent delinquency, drug addiction, and a host of social ills believed to be associated with neglectful parenthood.”1 http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/clo/clo_02bitterfruitsabor.html
Pam with Archbishop Lawrence Henry, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town
After using her material for many years, we were very honoured to welcome
Pam Stenzel in the flesh to South Africa on a short tour earlier this year,
which included Johannesburg, Cape Town and Manzini, Swaziland. Human Life
International hosted Pam and her supporting Act, Mad Dogs and Englishmen,
consisting of Colin Hearn and David Christman when they visited Cape Town.
By Frank Muller
Abortion remains an emotive issue, not least because it affects our very
definition of life. But, leaving aside the emotionally charged ethical and
moral issues for a while, let’s take a pragmatic approach. The common
perception is that abortions can be done either for profit (as by the
private sector and by backstreet abortionists) or not (as by state
institutions and a few philanthropists). However, a third reality has
emerged in South Africa (and indeed worldwide) for which no law makes
adequate provision: the two-stage abortion.
