There is a consensus that abortion is a social evil which must be avoided. Nonetheless, in those countries where abortion has been liberalised, it has increased. In the United States, in the first ten years, they tripled, and the figure has been maintained. It has become customary. The same thing happened in Spain.
Laws cannot ignore the reality of the existence of human life in its gestational stage, just as science reveals it. Biology has evolved greatly. Revolutionary discoveries, such as IVF or sequencing the human genome, show that from the moment of conception there is a new human life, a new being. So much so, that in modern legal systems, including our own, DNA has become the acid test of determining the identity of persons, independent of their age, even if the body is destroyed, or when practically nothing is left of the human being, and even after a long time. The true degree of civilisation of a nation is measured by how the neediest are protected.
Therefore we must protect the weakest amongst us. Because the criterion is not the value of the subject with respect to how others respond to him, or his usefulness, but the value which exists due to his mere existence…
Thursday, November 20, 2008
A Light in the Darkness
Uraguay's president has just shocked the South American country by vetoing a bill that would liberalize abortion law. Here's his statement:
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Pro-Life Health Care coming to Madison
Here's the latest from Our Lady of Hope Clinic:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT: Steve Karlen
Our Lady of Hope Clinic Inc.
608-445-2063
sjkarlen@ourladyofhopeclinic.com
http://www.ourladyofhopeclinic.org/
Our Lady of Hope Clinic Engages Development Consultant
Madison, WI, Nov. 19, 2008. Our Lady of Hope Clinic has recruited the services of development consultant Steve Karlen.
Karlen has previously worked in medical development in Chicago, and has been active in pro-life work in Madison. He will promote the Our Lady of Hope Clinic and secure benefactors as the clinic prepares to open in April 2009.
Our Lady of Hope Clinic is a non-profit, pro-life family medicine clinic founded with a mission of caring for the needy, supporting marital chastity, encouraging the use of Natural Family Planning and providing compassionate hospice care at the end of natural life. Upon opening, the clinic will provide free outpatient services to the uninsured, as well as to those who support the clinic as benefactors.
The clinic services will be funded by benefactors who support the Our Lady of Hope Clinic with an annual contribution. In exchange for their support, benefactors receive top-quality, personalized Catholic health care from their private physician at the clinic.
For additional information on becoming a benefactor or making a tax-deductible donation to Our Lady of Hope Clinic, contact Steve Karlen at sjkarlen@ourladyofhopeclinic.com or 608-445-2063 or visit ourladyofhopeclinic.org.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT: Steve Karlen
Our Lady of Hope Clinic Inc.
608-445-2063
sjkarlen@ourladyofhopeclinic.com
http://www.ourladyofhopeclinic.org/
Our Lady of Hope Clinic Engages Development Consultant
Madison, WI, Nov. 19, 2008. Our Lady of Hope Clinic has recruited the services of development consultant Steve Karlen.
Karlen has previously worked in medical development in Chicago, and has been active in pro-life work in Madison. He will promote the Our Lady of Hope Clinic and secure benefactors as the clinic prepares to open in April 2009.
Our Lady of Hope Clinic is a non-profit, pro-life family medicine clinic founded with a mission of caring for the needy, supporting marital chastity, encouraging the use of Natural Family Planning and providing compassionate hospice care at the end of natural life. Upon opening, the clinic will provide free outpatient services to the uninsured, as well as to those who support the clinic as benefactors.
The clinic services will be funded by benefactors who support the Our Lady of Hope Clinic with an annual contribution. In exchange for their support, benefactors receive top-quality, personalized Catholic health care from their private physician at the clinic.
For additional information on becoming a benefactor or making a tax-deductible donation to Our Lady of Hope Clinic, contact Steve Karlen at sjkarlen@ourladyofhopeclinic.com or 608-445-2063 or visit ourladyofhopeclinic.org.
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
The Nightmare: An Abortion Testimony
By Julie Worzella
The nightmare was the same: holding a lifeless baby boy, burned, chest and head sunk in, about 10 inches long. Each time I woke up only to find that it was not just a nightmare but a replay of what had happened months earlier.
I’m Julie Worzella a co-founder and Executive Director of Destiny Point Women’s Restoration Home. This is a part my story that helps to drive a passion within me to see hurting women in Wisconsin not only become survivors but overcomers and conquerors of their purpose, plans, dreams and visions that were instilled within them long before they were even born. A passion to see “hope” restored for their lives and the lives of their children and families.
I received a call about a person close to me; “Kari” was in the hospital. The baby had a defect, and would not live long after he was born. I considered myself pro-life, but wasn’t sure whether it was better for the baby to terminate the pregnancy or for him to die soon after. During the hour and a half ride to the hospital, I found myself crying and praying. Praying the best I knew how (I did not know the Lord very well). Praying for “Kari”, for the baby, and for myself.
When I got there I found “Kari”, alone, having strong aggressive contractions. Several hours ago they injected her with a strong saline solution to kill the baby and then they induced labor. They had to induce her a second time because her body was not ready to give up that baby. After “Kari” had become totally exhausted from hours of violent contractions they sedated her. When she awoke, I was hoping I would hear a little cry from that little boy, and if he was to die after he was born, hoping to hold him until that time would come.
But my hopes disappeared when “Kari” came out of the bathroom; she said the baby was in the toilet. Nothing in my life has prepared me for what I would see that day. I ran in and scooped him out and wrapped his lifeless body in a towel. Even though he was only 16 weeks old, he had everything that a full term baby had right down to his eyelashes and fingernails. As the doctor had suspected some of his internal organs were growing outside his body.
Among the perfect features on a newborn baby was the destruction of the “termination.” His skin was burnt and his chest and head were sunk in. I found out later through research that this deadly mixture of saline solution and the violent contractions was guaranteed to accomplish the results of an abortion. The saline solution burns the baby inside and out, while the violent contractions crush the soft bone of the head and ribcage. Even though it was legal and was described “the best thing to do,” that little guy died a violent death, and in turn a part of “Kari” died that day. And she has not yet recovered.
“Kari” was abused as a child and struggled with her own self-worth, but since the abortion, she has become addicted to alcohol, committed adultery, and recently divorced. She is searching to fill a void in her life and a way to ease the pain. Hope was lost for that child and in turn hope for her own future. It took me years of pain and questioning the Lord, “Why was I there Lord, even though I helped “Kari” through the labor, the baby died, and died a violent death, and “Kari’s” pain was steadily getting worse? What good could possibly come from this?”
The pain of scooping my own 12 week old son out of the toilet after I had miscarried 13 years earlier had come back to mix with the pain of “Kari’s” child. And to top it off, approximately three months after abortion, a photograph of Samuel Armas came out. A surgeon was performing surgery on Samuel while he was still in the uterus! Little Samuel's hand reached out of the uterus and grabbed the surgeon’s finger! Praise God for little Samuel, but too late for “Kari’s” baby. BUT GOD! Yes but God will make all things work together for good….
It is not my heart to condemn anyone that has or may terminate her pregnancy. These women (and men) are hurting enough. And neither does God wish to condemn them. He extends His grace, mercy and forgiveness for our mistakes, failures and sin through His son Jesus for those who believe (Romans 4:25).
What the Lord wants is for us is to walk with Him, see what He sees, rejoice when He rejoices, and weep when He weeps. “Kari’s” baby boy did not die in vain. For the Lord has not only given me a passion to help women through their traumas such as abortion, addiction and abuse, but He also given me a voice to help others see what God sees everyday, and in some small way feel a part of the pain he must feel witnessing 4,000 violent abortions a day, most preformed out of convenience or as a form of birth control. All done because a loss of hope for that child’s future. Mankind is the Lord’s precious creation. He formed us and blew His Breath into us (Genesis 2:7) and made us in His image (Genesis 1:26).
Even those babies with defects, are created by Him. They are not a mistake. Nothing else that He has ever created received this kind of love and care, not His plants or animals. God’s Word said that He does not change. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow (Hebrews 13:8). Human life, babies, adults, elderly, you and I are still as precious to Him today as it was when He first created Adam and Eve.
We have been bombarded with campaign ads, promises and sometimes misleading information. Our responsibility as Christians and Catholics is to search out the truth and the candidate’s past voting records on Legislation and bills cannot tell a lie. One of the candidates was the only member of the Senate who voted three times against legislation--that would provide medical care to a baby surviving an abortion which puts him to the left of all Senators. His opposition to banning partial-birth abortion in which the baby is delivered all the way except for the head and then killed, places him 17 out of 47 Democratic Senators.
At July 2007’s Planned Parenthood conference, he promised: "The first thing I will do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act." This law, if passed and signed, will strike down every current restriction on abortion within all 50 states including parental notification and restrictions on Partial Birth Abortion. Despite the downplaying of the abortion issue, most Americans want restrictions on abortion and the one candidate’s 100% pro-abortion voting record goes against our beliefs.
Women like “Kari” are waiting for our help. If you find it in your heart to give please send it to 6983 Grotto Ave, Rudolph WI 54475. Our website is www.destinypoint.org. God Bless You!
The nightmare was the same: holding a lifeless baby boy, burned, chest and head sunk in, about 10 inches long. Each time I woke up only to find that it was not just a nightmare but a replay of what had happened months earlier.
I’m Julie Worzella a co-founder and Executive Director of Destiny Point Women’s Restoration Home. This is a part my story that helps to drive a passion within me to see hurting women in Wisconsin not only become survivors but overcomers and conquerors of their purpose, plans, dreams and visions that were instilled within them long before they were even born. A passion to see “hope” restored for their lives and the lives of their children and families.
I received a call about a person close to me; “Kari” was in the hospital. The baby had a defect, and would not live long after he was born. I considered myself pro-life, but wasn’t sure whether it was better for the baby to terminate the pregnancy or for him to die soon after. During the hour and a half ride to the hospital, I found myself crying and praying. Praying the best I knew how (I did not know the Lord very well). Praying for “Kari”, for the baby, and for myself.
When I got there I found “Kari”, alone, having strong aggressive contractions. Several hours ago they injected her with a strong saline solution to kill the baby and then they induced labor. They had to induce her a second time because her body was not ready to give up that baby. After “Kari” had become totally exhausted from hours of violent contractions they sedated her. When she awoke, I was hoping I would hear a little cry from that little boy, and if he was to die after he was born, hoping to hold him until that time would come.
But my hopes disappeared when “Kari” came out of the bathroom; she said the baby was in the toilet. Nothing in my life has prepared me for what I would see that day. I ran in and scooped him out and wrapped his lifeless body in a towel. Even though he was only 16 weeks old, he had everything that a full term baby had right down to his eyelashes and fingernails. As the doctor had suspected some of his internal organs were growing outside his body.
Among the perfect features on a newborn baby was the destruction of the “termination.” His skin was burnt and his chest and head were sunk in. I found out later through research that this deadly mixture of saline solution and the violent contractions was guaranteed to accomplish the results of an abortion. The saline solution burns the baby inside and out, while the violent contractions crush the soft bone of the head and ribcage. Even though it was legal and was described “the best thing to do,” that little guy died a violent death, and in turn a part of “Kari” died that day. And she has not yet recovered.
“Kari” was abused as a child and struggled with her own self-worth, but since the abortion, she has become addicted to alcohol, committed adultery, and recently divorced. She is searching to fill a void in her life and a way to ease the pain. Hope was lost for that child and in turn hope for her own future. It took me years of pain and questioning the Lord, “Why was I there Lord, even though I helped “Kari” through the labor, the baby died, and died a violent death, and “Kari’s” pain was steadily getting worse? What good could possibly come from this?”
The pain of scooping my own 12 week old son out of the toilet after I had miscarried 13 years earlier had come back to mix with the pain of “Kari’s” child. And to top it off, approximately three months after abortion, a photograph of Samuel Armas came out. A surgeon was performing surgery on Samuel while he was still in the uterus! Little Samuel's hand reached out of the uterus and grabbed the surgeon’s finger! Praise God for little Samuel, but too late for “Kari’s” baby. BUT GOD! Yes but God will make all things work together for good….
It is not my heart to condemn anyone that has or may terminate her pregnancy. These women (and men) are hurting enough. And neither does God wish to condemn them. He extends His grace, mercy and forgiveness for our mistakes, failures and sin through His son Jesus for those who believe (Romans 4:25).
What the Lord wants is for us is to walk with Him, see what He sees, rejoice when He rejoices, and weep when He weeps. “Kari’s” baby boy did not die in vain. For the Lord has not only given me a passion to help women through their traumas such as abortion, addiction and abuse, but He also given me a voice to help others see what God sees everyday, and in some small way feel a part of the pain he must feel witnessing 4,000 violent abortions a day, most preformed out of convenience or as a form of birth control. All done because a loss of hope for that child’s future. Mankind is the Lord’s precious creation. He formed us and blew His Breath into us (Genesis 2:7) and made us in His image (Genesis 1:26).
Even those babies with defects, are created by Him. They are not a mistake. Nothing else that He has ever created received this kind of love and care, not His plants or animals. God’s Word said that He does not change. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow (Hebrews 13:8). Human life, babies, adults, elderly, you and I are still as precious to Him today as it was when He first created Adam and Eve.
We have been bombarded with campaign ads, promises and sometimes misleading information. Our responsibility as Christians and Catholics is to search out the truth and the candidate’s past voting records on Legislation and bills cannot tell a lie. One of the candidates was the only member of the Senate who voted three times against legislation--that would provide medical care to a baby surviving an abortion which puts him to the left of all Senators. His opposition to banning partial-birth abortion in which the baby is delivered all the way except for the head and then killed, places him 17 out of 47 Democratic Senators.
At July 2007’s Planned Parenthood conference, he promised: "The first thing I will do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act." This law, if passed and signed, will strike down every current restriction on abortion within all 50 states including parental notification and restrictions on Partial Birth Abortion. Despite the downplaying of the abortion issue, most Americans want restrictions on abortion and the one candidate’s 100% pro-abortion voting record goes against our beliefs.
Women like “Kari” are waiting for our help. If you find it in your heart to give please send it to 6983 Grotto Ave, Rudolph WI 54475. Our website is www.destinypoint.org. God Bless You!
Monday, November 3, 2008
Forty Days for Life Madison Election Resource Center
Dear Friends,
It is the expressed policy of 40 Days for Life Madison not to endorse any political candidates. Our aim is to end abortion through peaceful prayer.
Yet we cannot close our eyes to political and social evils that arise in the world. And, as we've mentioned before, one of the nominees for president intends to advance policies so wicked that we cannot remain silent. These proposals would cause unimaginable harm to our efforts to promote a respect for life and a respect for family.
We do not suggest any particular candidate for any office. But we do feel that you should know
some crucial facts before casting your ballot.
God Bless,
The 40 Days for Life Madison Team
The Freedom of Choice Act
Madison Catholic Herald Column
The Born Alive Infant Protection Act
Bella Star Eduardo Verástegui's election video (Graphic)
A touching video on the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (Graphic):
Abortion Survivor Gianna Jessen's Born Alive Infant Protection Act Video:
Gianna Jessen Video 2
Never Find Out video:
It is the expressed policy of 40 Days for Life Madison not to endorse any political candidates. Our aim is to end abortion through peaceful prayer.
Yet we cannot close our eyes to political and social evils that arise in the world. And, as we've mentioned before, one of the nominees for president intends to advance policies so wicked that we cannot remain silent. These proposals would cause unimaginable harm to our efforts to promote a respect for life and a respect for family.
We do not suggest any particular candidate for any office. But we do feel that you should know
some crucial facts before casting your ballot.
God Bless,
The 40 Days for Life Madison Team
The Freedom of Choice Act
Madison Catholic Herald Column
The Born Alive Infant Protection Act
Bella Star Eduardo Verástegui's election video (Graphic)
A touching video on the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (Graphic):
Abortion Survivor Gianna Jessen's Born Alive Infant Protection Act Video:
Gianna Jessen Video 2
Never Find Out video:
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