Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts

Monday, August 17, 2026

ABORTION: THE BORDER THAT IS ALWAYS MOVING


Massachusetts is once again expanding the legal boundaries of abortion. But behind the weeks, exceptions, and slogans lies a question that comes before all the others: what is it whose life is being ended?

Massachusetts is once again expanding the legal boundaries of abortion.

For those who support these measures, it is a matter of autonomy, access, and medical freedom. For those of us who defend human life from its beginning, it means something very different:

The circumstances under which the law permits the deliberate termination of a human life before birth are being expanded.

But perhaps we have spent too long arguing about weeks, exceptions, and boundaries.

Before asking when an abortion may be performed, we must answer a much more fundamental question.

WHAT IS IT THAT DIES?

Biological reality is the starting point.

What develops inside the mother's womb is a living human organism at a prenatal stage of development.

Zygote, embryo, and fetus are terms that designate different stages of that development, just as newborn, child, adolescent, and adult designate later stages.

None of us suddenly appeared during childbirth.

The adult who reads these words today is the result of a continuous process of development that began long before he or she could speak, think, remember, or survive independently.

Therefore, the fundamental controversy should not be whether it belongs to the human species. The real question is this:

If we are dealing with a living, developing human being, what characteristic would it have to lack in order to lose the most basic right we recognize in other human beings: that no one should deliberately end its life?

Size? Age? Degree of development? Consciousness? The ability to feel? The ability to survive independently? Being wanted?

Every answer requires us to justify why that particular characteristic—and not our human condition—should determine who deserves protection.

Biology tells us what is there.

The moral question is what we owe it because it is there.

MASSACHUSETTS: THE BORDER MOVES AGAIN

Massachusetts has once again expanded the legal window for abortion, including beyond 24 weeks.

The boundary moves again: greater decision-making latitude and fewer specific restrictions.

From a pro-life perspective, this means expanding the circumstances under which the law permits the deliberate killing of human beings before birth.

But it would be a mistake to think that our problem begins at 24 weeks.

It does not begin when the child can survive outside the womb.

It does not begin when the child reaches a certain size.

It does not begin when its appearance makes it easier to recognize it as one of us.

It begins with the existence of the new human organism.

That is why Massachusetts should not lead us merely to ask:

“How long will they allow abortion?”

The truly difficult question is:

Why should there be a stage of human life during which deliberately ending that life is considered a right?

AT 24 WEEKS, THE CONTRADICTION BECOMES VISIBLE

Imagine a child born extremely prematurely.

Doctors and nurses rush to save the child. An incubator maintains the baby's temperature. A ventilator may help the baby breathe. The parents watch every movement.

Every hour matters.

Every gram gained is celebrated.

And medicine is right to fight for that child.

Advances in neonatal medicine allow some babies born at around 24 weeks to survive.

Now imagine another human being of a similar gestational age who remains inside the mother.

What has changed in that human being's nature?

Its location.

Birth changes many things, but it does not create our humanity.

The child who leaves the womb was already human before leaving it.

We may employ extraordinary human and technological resources to save one child while the law permits, under certain circumstances, the deliberate termination of another human life that remains inside the womb.

The legal situation changes.

The location changes.

The individual's human nature does not.

And although late abortions may constitute a small proportion of the total, that does not resolve the problem.

Statistics answer:

How often does it happen?

They do not answer:

What is happening?

The rarity of an action does not determine whether it is just.

But neither should we make the opposite mistake and focus only on late abortions. If the individual we observe at 24 weeks is human, that same individual was also human weeks earlier.

Size does not confer dignity.

Neither does age.

WHAT ABOUT EXTREME CASES?

Rape, incest, abandonment, poverty, illness, and devastating diagnoses.

It is easy to write those words. It is much harder to live through those realities.

A woman who has been raped deserves justice, and her attacker deserves the full weight of the law. A sick mother deserves the best medical care available. An abandoned woman needs material, psychological, and family support. A family facing a terrible diagnosis needs counseling, medical care, and, when appropriate, perinatal palliative care.

There is nothing pro-life about abandoning a woman in such circumstances.

But tragedy changes the circumstances; it does not change the nature of the child.

The father's crime does not make the child guilty.

Poverty does not make the poor person less human.

A disability does not erase dignity.

Neither does illness.

We must also distinguish between deliberately causing an abortion and suffering a spontaneous pregnancy loss.

One thing is being unable to save a life.

Quite another is intending to end it.

“MY BODY, MY CHOICE”

A woman's body belongs to her.

But her child is not an organ of her body.

The child is inside her and depends upon her to an extraordinary degree, but dependence does not mean identity or an absence of dignity.

A newborn is completely dependent on others. A person with profound disabilities may depend on others throughout his or her entire life. An elderly person with dementia may require assistance even to eat.

We do not conclude that the greater the person's dependence, the lesser his or her right to live.

We should uphold precisely the opposite principle:

The more vulnerable a human being is, the greater our obligation should be to protect that person.

Why should that principle be reversed before birth?

WHAT ABOUT THE WOMAN?

This is a necessary question.

There are women terrified by a pregnancy. Poor women. Abandoned women. Women who fear losing their education, their jobs, or the future they had imagined. Women facing illness and terrible diagnoses.

They matter.

A society that calls itself pro-life and then abandons the mother has understood only half of its obligation.

We must accompany her, provide material assistance, hold the father accountable, facilitate real alternatives, improve adoption processes, and provide medical and psychological care.

And that responsibility does not end with birth.

But the question “What about the woman?” has another dimension that we almost never hear:

What about the girls who never had the chance to be born?

Among aborted human beings there are also female human beings.

Where do they stand when we speak about women's rights?

A little girl who dies before birth will never march for her rights. She will never vote. She will never attend university. She will never discover what her vocation might have been.

We will never know whether she might have become a doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist, religious sister, entrepreneur, mother, or simply an ordinary woman who would have loved and been loved.

But she did not need to become any of those things to have value.

Her dignity did not depend on what she might one day have been able to do.

It depended on who she was.

The mother matters.

The daughter matters too.

The human response should not be to pit one against the other, but to say:

“Your life matters. And your child's life matters too. We will abandon neither of you.”

NEITHER WANTED NOR UNWANTED: HUMAN

One child may have been awaited for years. Another may arrive unexpectedly.

One may be conceived in a stable home. Another may be conceived under terrible circumstances.

One may be given a name from the moment of the first ultrasound. Another may be regarded as a problem from the very beginning.

But the wanted child and the unwanted child do not belong to different species.

Another person's wishes may change the child's circumstances.

They cannot change the child's human nature.

If our dignity depends on someone wanting us, considering us convenient, or authorizing our existence, then we do not possess genuine rights.

We have permissions.

And whoever grants permission can also withdraw it.

That is precisely why human rights exist: so that the dignity of the weak does not depend exclusively on the will of the strong.

“ABORTION IS HEALTH CARE”

It is a common slogan in our time.

But no slogan can replace a question:

Health care—for whom?

The mother is a patient. Her health matters. Her life matters. Her suffering matters.

But within her there is also another living, developing human being.

We can change laws and alter the words with which we describe a reality.

What we cannot do is alter that reality through language.

A law can declare an action lawful.

That does not automatically prove that it is just.

Legality and morality have never been synonyms.

If they were, there would never have been an unjust law that needed to be changed.

THE QUESTION THAT REMAINS

That is what makes Massachusetts relevant.

We do not need to imagine conspiracies or attribute hidden motives to everyone who thinks differently.

It is enough to observe the result:

The legal boundary is expanding again.

And when a boundary moves, we must ask who is left on the other side.

At six weeks, the human being is tiny. At twelve weeks, more developed. At 24 weeks, its capabilities are different. After birth, the child will depend completely on others.

Size, abilities, appearance, and degree of dependence change.

What remains is the continuity of the same developing human organism.

That is why the question does not end in Massachusetts.

Nor at 24 weeks.

Nor at 12.

Nor at six.

It ends with a question our generation must answer:

If we know that it is alive and we know that it is human, what circumstance can make it just to deliberately end its life simply because it has not yet been born?

The woman deserves our help.

The mother deserves our protection.

The victim of violence deserves justice.

The sick woman deserves the best medicine possible.

The mother facing a devastating diagnosis deserves support and compassion.

And the human being who depends completely upon her also deserves protection.

Even if that human being is small.

Even if sick.

Even if conceived under terrible circumstances.

Even if no one expected that child.

Even if that child cannot yet speak.

Because human rights acquire their deepest meaning precisely in the face of the human being who lacks the power to demand them.

The mother matters.

The child matters.

A truly humane society should be large enough to defend both.

We should not require a human being to first become large, strong, independent, or wanted before recognizing that this human being is already one of us.

RMO

Friday, April 10, 2026

IMPORTANT MEDICAL TESTIMONY (Don't miss it).

 

By: Dr. Sergio Villarreal

In recent months, I've read some arguments on social media regarding unborn babies that I want to address. I've read that they are just cells. I've read that they are not human beings. I've read that they are not living beings. I've read that they are not beings with consciousness. And I've read that, because of all of the above, these cells have no rights that we should respect. In response to all of this, I want to share my testimony:

I have been a gynecologist for 30 years. Since 1988, I have seen many women who have placed their trust in me. I have cared for them during their pregnancies. I have delivered their children. Many of the babies I delivered have grown up and are now parents, and in some cases, I have delivered their own children.

Throughout these years, I have performed ultrasounds on many patients very early in their pregnancies as part of the medical care I provide them.  But along the way, I've witnessed many other things that go beyond mere medical observation, and I want to share them with you:

I've seen babies' hearts beat very early on, strongly, so strongly that it's not uncommon to see the heartbeat before the baby itself.

I've seen them at 7 weeks old take little hops on their backs.

I've seen them at 9 weeks old move their arms and legs, move their whole bodies, somersault, jump and hop, turn to face forward and see their faces, turn to the side, open their mouths, and make so many gestures so common and familiar to any human being.

I've seen them fully formed, with brains and hearts, with eyes, ears, and mouths. I've seen them with hands and feet, with fluid inside their stomachs, with urine in their bladders. I've seen the chambers of their hearts pumping blood throughout their bodies. I've seen them touch each other with their hands, bend their knees, extend them, and stretch out as if they were on a swing.

I've watched them grow inside the womb, I've seen them yawn, and I've seen them hiccup. I've seen their respiratory muscles move. I've seen them clench their fists, and I've seen them move their eyes. Waiting for the moment of birth.

And there, seeing them inside the womb, I've been able to recognize that they are more than just cells; I've recognized a living being, with its own physiology, its own structure. I've seen a human being. I've seen a being of my species, only younger than me, a being that is a continuum in time with the being it will become in the future. A being that is not only potential, but is already a reality there in its mother's womb, just like the young child who, although potential for the future, is already a reality in its present childhood. True, it's not a human being conscious of its surroundings, just as a newborn isn't, or a child who is only a few days or weeks old, or an elderly person who has lost some of their cognitive functions.  But it is a human being, just like them, simply a human being.

I have seen those embryos become fetuses, and those fetuses be born, and I have seen them later come with their parents, as children, to my office, to witness the miracle of having one, two, or more siblings. And I have seen them grow up to become good men and women. And I have seen them, in turn, become mothers and fathers who love the life they were given and the life they now give.

I have seen many parents cry tears of joy upon seeing their child for the first time on a screen, and I have seen them immensely happy when their child is born. And many times I have heard them describe how that baby has changed their lives, and how they are now willing to give their lives for the love of their little one. This is not rhetoric. Any parent knows it, any mother understands it. Willing to die for the love of their baby.

And I've seen cases of women who suddenly found themselves facing an unexpected reality: an unplanned pregnancy, a baby they never thought would come their way. Sometimes they were alone, and all the braver for being alone. But when they've become aware of the profound significance of their experience and have accepted the arrival of their baby, and have continued under my care, I haven't seen a single woman regret giving life. I haven't seen one who, after a few years, doesn't see her son or daughter as the most precious thing in her life. Never, never have I heard one say, "I would have preferred not to have it."

After giving this testimony, I only hope that those who think differently do so out of ignorance, or perhaps due to a lack of information.

Don't argue that they are just cells, don't argue that it's not a living being, don't argue that it's not a human being or that it doesn't have consciousness.  Don't insult your own intelligence with those arguments, which are so false and empty that it's incredible that a human being with a conscience would even take them into account.


Monday, April 6, 2026

LIFE ACCORDING TO THE WORLD


When man attempts to organize his life, his politics, and his civilization "according to man," he is engaging in the same prideful insurrection that defined the Fall. He is attempting to become the measure of all things, effectively installing himself as his own god. Liberalism insists on a public square emptied of God, falsely claiming that this "neutrality" allows for human freedom. In reality, it creates a vacuum where the devil assumes authority. Human nature is not a self-contained, autonomous entity, but is designed for participation in the Divine life. Therefore, any political or social order that seeks to exclude the Kingship of Christ is an anti-Christian one. When a nation lives "according to man," it creates a culture that is inherently fragmented and dehumanizing. Without the hierarchy of values rooted in Truth, the strong prey upon the weak, the family is dissolved, and the natural order is inverted. You see this today in the frantic, nihilistic drive toward the destruction of the family and the elevation of degenerate ideologies. This is the fruit of living according to the standards of the self rather than the standards of the Creator.  When we build our cities and our laws on the foundation of human autonomy, we are building them on sand. The only path to true human fulfillment is the re-subordination of the human will and the political order to the sovereignty of Christ the King.


Monday, August 11, 2025

A HUMAN BEING CAN ONLY CONCEIVE ANOTHER HUMAN BEING AND NOT A SIMPLY BLUNCH OF CELLS

One month after conception, a human being is one-sixth of an inch long. The tiny heart has already begun beating for a week, and the arms, legs, head, and brain have already begun to take shape. At two months, the child already fits in a nutshell: curled up, the person measures little more than an inch. Inside your closed fist, the person would be invisible, and you could squash them without intending to, or even realizing it. But if you open your hand, the person is practically complete, with hands, feet, head, internal organs, brain, all in place. All they need is to grow. Looking even more closely with a standard microscope, you may be able to see their fingerprints. Everything needed to establish their identity is already in place.

-Jerome Lejeune, Modern Geneticist

Saturday, August 9, 2025

THE RIGHT TO KILL: BETWEEN THE CANNULA, THE HANDKERCHIEF, AND THE DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS


I. HELL, EUPHEMISMS, AND THE PROFANE LITURGY OF THE SELF

Abortion is a crime. There is no possible mitigating factor, no context that dignifies it, no rhetoric that softens it. It is, in itself, an act of absolute injustice: the deliberate destruction of the most innocent, the most defenseless, the most irreplaceable. Its malice needs no adjectives to be monstrous. The fact is enough.

But as if death were not enough, modern culture has added mockery. Today, children are killed not only in the shadows, but under the spotlight; not with tears, but with applause; not in secret, but as a spectacle. What was once hidden as a sin is today celebrated as a right.  And this is not just an added aberration: it is a consecration of crime, a profane liturgy of the self, a godless religion whose dogma is absolute autonomy and whose altar is the desecrated womb.

Every time an innocent person is sacrificed in the name of "reproductive freedom," a systematic denial of the natural order, a subversion of law, and a blasphemy against divine law are perpetrated. What they call "voluntary termination of pregnancy" is not merely the extirpation of a child: it is the solemn affirmation that the self has become god, that good and evil can be defined by decree, that killing can be an act of justice.

II. THE INVERSION OF LANGUAGE: FROM CRIME TO LAW

The spiritual war of our time is waged in the realm of language. It is not enough to commit evil: it must be rebranded.  Thus, abortion becomes not only a “right,” but a “conquest,” an “act of love,” a “form of social justice.” Every word has been carefully twisted so that hell is spoken in tones of sweetness.

But the Angelic Doctor teaches that veritas est adaequatio rei et intellectus—truth is the conformity between the thing and the intellect. When language is dissociated from reality, it is also dissociated from truth. Calling murder “intervention” does not make it any less homicide; proclaiming it “progress” does not make it any less sinful. This is the language of the father of lies, who promised freedom in Paradise and delivered death.

III. LEGALITY AS A MASK OF INJUSTICE: THE STATE AS PRIEST OF THE NEW RELIGION

Human law, when it deviates from eternal and natural law, ceases to be law and becomes a corruption of it.  The modern State, once instituted to safeguard justice, has embraced legal apostasy: it not only tolerates abortion, it promotes it; it not only permits it, it finances it; it not only decriminalizes it, it turns it into a symbol of civilization.

Thus, the legal apparatus becomes an instrument of death. And, as the traditional Magisterium taught, lex iniusta non est lex—an unjust law does not oblige, but oppresses. The legal order that protects death and persecutes life has reversed its purpose: it no longer protects the innocent, but rather the executioner.

IV. THE WOMAN'S BODY AS AN IDEOLOGICAL BATTLEFIELD

Modern feminism has replaced the dogma of love with the dogma of revenge. The maternal womb, which was supposed to be a sanctuary, has become a trench; motherhood, which was supposed to be a gift, has become slavery; life, which was supposed to be welcomed, has become the enemy.  The female body has been recruited as a battlefield by an ideology that does not seek to elevate women, but to strip them of their essence.

Women are not liberated when they reject life; they are disfigured. The devil does not hate women's freedom: he hates their capacity to give life. Therefore, abortion is not only an act against the child: it is a rebellion against motherhood itself. It is the Luciferian cry: non serviam.

V. THE VOICELESS VICTIM: THE UNBORN AND THE OMISSION OF THE JUST

The unborn child is the most perfect icon of the innocent Christ: it has no power, no voice, no defense. And yet, its death is celebrated as if it were a victory. Modern culture not only condones crime: it proclaims it as a virtue.

And where are the just? Where are the parents, the teachers, the legislators, the doctors, the clergy? Where are those who should have raised their voices in defense of the least of these? They remain silent.  Because speaking out would cost them prestige, security, or comfort. Yet history, in its ebb and flow, sometimes shows glimpses of heroism: amidst moral decay, there are still those who, with a simple guideline or "blank" of intentions, dare to defend the life of the unborn, bearing witness that political prudence, when upright, can be a bulwark against tyranny.

But silence in the face of injustice is complicity with evil. It is better to die with the Truth than to live with a lie.

VI. NATURE'S REVENGE: SPIRITUAL SCARS

Abortion does not end when the child's heartbeat ceases. The mother's soul—created to love, not to destroy—is scarred. Although ideology claims to have "made a free choice," nature cries out. Empty wombs cry. Cribs never purchased cry out. Nightmares do not cease. Guilt is not erased with pills.

Not only is a body destroyed: a spirit is wounded. Not only is a life extinguished: a conscience is fractured. Not only is the child suppressed: motherhood is obscured.

VII. THE CATHOLIC RESPONSE: LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

Political arguments are not enough. Medical statistics are not enough. Awareness campaigns are not enough. Against this vital heresy, there is only one sufficient response: the full Gospel, natural law proclaimed clearly, Catholic doctrine lived faithfully.

It is necessary for the eternal truth to shine again: that life is sacred, that a child is not an enemy, that motherhood is a gift, that crime can never be a right. The answer will not come from enlightened elites or international NGOs: it will come from humble souls who have kept the faith, from courageous lay people, from faithful confessors, from the apostles of the Sacred Heart, who still dare to call sin sin and grace grace.

EPILOGUE: JUDGMENT DAY AND THE SENTENCE THAT MATTERS

The day will come when the innocent will look down on us from eternity. They will not ask what laws were passed, what marches we organized, what editorials we signed. They will ask something simpler and more terrible: "Where were you when they were killing us?"

And if our silence was complicit, if our lukewarmness was a disguise for prudence, if our inaction was more convenient than our fidelity... then we will be unable to respond.

History will judge abortion as it judges slavery today. But beyond history, the Just Judge will call for an account. And then, only those who have defended life with words, prayer, and sacrifice will be found worthy.

Oscar Méndez O.


Friday, February 28, 2025

THE SILENT CRY: A STORY OF PAIN AND HOPE


The early morning wrapped the hospital in a heavy silence as Clara arrived, feeling that each step pulled her deeper into an abyss of uncertainty. She had thought that making a decision would quiet the storm inside her, but with every heartbeat, her doubts only grew stronger.

Was she really going to do this?

The voices around her were deafening. Her boyfriend, indifferent, had told her, “Do whatever you think is best.” Her friends insisted it was her right. Her mother, in a stern tone, reminded her, “A child now will ruin your plans.” Everywhere she turned, the message was clear: “It’s nothing. It’s your body, your choice.”

Yet deep inside, another voice whispered otherwise. If it was really nothing, why did she feel that tight knot in her stomach?

She hugged herself, trying to stop the trembling that ran through her. The hospital corridor seemed to close in on her, and panic began to set in. What if what she was carrying was a real life?

She tried to dismiss the thought, repeating what others had told her: that it was just a cluster of cells, that there was no consciousness, that it didn’t matter. But then she remembered something she had read somewhere:

The heart begins to beat around the third week of pregnancy.

Brain activity can be detected by the sixth week.

By the twelfth week, the fetus can respond to stimuli.

If a fetus could respond, how could it be “nothing”?

She pressed her forehead against the cold wall, searching for clarity. She couldn’t think straight. Every argument clashed against her fear, her shame, and the desperation of not knowing what to do.

“You’re not ready,” an inner voice told her. “This will ruin your life. You don’t have the resources or support. How will you raise a child when you can barely handle yourself?”

But another, softer voice whispered, “If inside you there is a beating heart, a functioning brain, a being with unique DNA… do you really have the right to decide its fate?”

She swallowed hard, feeling the weight on her chest. What if she was about to make an irreversible mistake?

Her fear began to change. It was no longer just fear of having the baby, but fear of what would happen if she didn’t.

A nurse approached with a clipboard in her hands.

— “Clara González. It’s your turn.”

She looked at her, frozen. Every part of her was screaming for her to stand up, to run, to protect the life inside her. But fear kept her glued to her seat.

Then, almost instinctively, her hands moved to her belly. And in that moment, an image from her childhood surfaced: the Virgin Mary, draped in her blue mantle, carrying the Savior in her womb.

If Mary had seen her pregnancy as an obstacle, if she had given in to fear… what would have become of us?

The thought struck her deeply. If the Son of God came into the world through a woman, how could she reject the gift that had been entrusted to her?

A shiver ran through her, and for the first time in a long time, she felt a comforting presence.

She was not alone. She had never been alone.

In a whisper, her lips formed the words her heart understood before her mind did:

“Mater Dei, ora pro nobis.”

The fear began to fade, replaced by a newfound strength she had never known.

She stood up, leaving behind the shadows of despair. She walked out of the hospital, and outside, the dawn painted the sky with golden hues, as if creation itself was celebrating her choice.

She had chosen life.

Though the future remained uncertain, she knew one thing for sure: she had embraced God’s plan.

And in that womb that had almost been denied, in that sacred place where God had placed an immortal soul, a new light continued to beat. A heartbeat that echoed eternal love, belonging not only to her but to the Creator who had conceived it from all eternity.

OMO

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

THE CELLS OF THE BABY


 When pregnant, the cells of the baby migrate into the mothers bloodstream and then circle back into the baby, it’s called “fetal-maternal microchimerism”.⁠

For 41 weeks, the cells circulate and merge backwards and forwards, and after the baby is born, many of these cells stay in the mother’s body, leaving a permanent imprint in the mothers tissues, bones, brain, and skin, and often stay there for decades. Every single child a mother has afterwards will leave a similar imprint on her body, too.

Even if a pregnancy doesn't go to full term or if you have an abortion, these cells still migrate into your bloodstream.

Research has shown that if a mother's heart is injured, fetal cells will rush to the site of the injury and change into different types of cells that specialize in mending the heart.

The baby helps repair the mother, while the mother builds the baby.

How cool is that?

This is often why certain illnesses vanish while pregnant.

It’s incredible how mothers bodies protect the baby at all costs, and the baby protects & rebuilds the mother back - so that the baby can develop safely and survive.

Think about crazy cravings for a moment. What was the mother deficient in that the baby made them crave?

Studies have also shown cells from a fetus in a mothers brain 18 years after she gave birth. How amazing is that?

If you’re a mom you know how you can intuitively feel your child even when they are not there….Well, now there is scientific proof that moms carry them for years and years even after they have given birth to them.

I find this to be so very beautiful.

This research is belongs to Hina Chaudhry and her team. Here is the resent article about her and team:

1. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.313246 

2. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/new-science-motherhood-180977456/

Thursday, September 8, 2022

THE BEAUTY OF HUMAN LIFE


She is Anabelle Raelynne Danison, she passed away at 8 weeks gestation due to natural causes and her parents wanted to show the beauty of intrauterine human life. At this age, many babies already lose their lives due to abortion.

At 8 weeks the baby already has the eyelids, the nose and the upper lip formed. It already has a heartbeat. The body measures between 12 and 17 mm. Through the translucent skin you can see the skeleton which is currently made up of cartilage. The liver is also fully functional.

From this moment the baby feeds exclusively through the umbilical cord. The wonder of the human being…

Share this if you believe in the right to life of this and all children.


Saturday, June 25, 2022

GREAT TRIUMPH OF LIFE



Life won! The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) overturned the famous Roe vs. Wade ruling, returning to the US Constitution its original nature of defending life. This is a decision that will surely impact many Latin American constitutions.

Providentially, on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Roe v Wade has been overturned, in a ruling that clearly indicates that, beyond the slogans, the "supposed right to abortion IS NOT constitutional." And so, Clarence Thomas, Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States, stated: "The purported right to abortion is not a form of liberty." Meanwhile, Judge Samuel Alito wrote in the decision: “Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each state from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”


Wednesday, April 22, 2020

LET THE CHILDREN COME INTO THE WORLD


"Let the little children come to me," tenderly said one day Jesus Christ to the Apostles. With similar words, somewhat modified, I will close this text: Let the children that God sends come into the world.

We all know about the killing of innocent children ordered by Herod. What cries of anguish must have uttered the lips of their mothers! How desperately they would try to defend their children from Herod's assassins! What great compassion we feel for these poor mothers!

But the current world seems to have upset everything. The perversion of ideas has poisoned mothers, not only so that they do not defend their children, but so that they themselves go in search of the executioner, and pay money to kill them. Can there be greater perversion and evil?

Undoubtedly, every sin must have its punishment, even in this life. Because whoever commits the sin of abortion and does not repent and does not do penance, has two punishments already on this earth, both horrendous: either the conscience is awakened and then they feel terrible remorse for what they have done, a remorse that does not allow them to rest even while they are asleep — even having nightmares about aborted children—, or their conscience dies —along with the aborted son—, and they fall into such stupefaction that hardly any trait of tenderness and compassion remains. Neither in the first nor in the second case can one speak of having had a happy married life; there is nothing but bitterness and emptiness. Experience shows this with sad examples known to all.

Let us finish this text by begging our Lord Jesus Christ to obtain for us the grace of having happy marriages, that love children”.

Bishop Tihamér Tóth
📖 The Christian Marriage.
Taken from: The Catholic Lady.

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