The so-called "choice" to end the life of another human being is a moral choice. The first purpose of government is to protect the lives of its citizens. The taking of an innocent human life is wrong.

There are moral absolutes. Murder, the deliberate taking of an innocent human life is always morally wrong.

A baby in its mother's womb is innocent and defenseless.
To deliberately take the life of baby is always wrong, no matter how young the baby may be or what stage of development it's in. It is always murder.

No matter how you may try to skew the argument, and play around with the language, abortion is always morally wrong. It's always murder of an innocent human being.

I don't have the right to murder you. Why then should you or anyone have the right to murder an innocent baby in its mother's womb?

http://prolifeaction.org/truth/index.htm

Mike

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. -Samuel Adams

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that "except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest.
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service. - Benjamin Franklin

To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. . . . Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them. -Jedidiah Morse

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God our Father, your Son Jesus spoke to us a message
of peace and taught us to live as brothers and sisters.

His message took form in the vision of our Founding Fathers, as they
fashioned a nation where all people might live as one.

This message lives on in our midst as a task for us today
and a promise for tomorrow.

We thank you, Father, for your blessings in the past,
and for all that, with your help, we must yet achieve.

Bless our nation and bless each of us. As we celebrate our independence, may we extend its blessings to our youngest brothers and sisters, the children in the womb.

Hasten the day when our nation will be a nation with liberty and justice,
not just for some, but for all, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Priests for Life

All life is precious, all our children, in the womb and out!

YouTube - Bishop Fulton Sheen- His Last Words Part III

July 2nd, 2008 at 7:28 am

Dear Student,
Thank you for your concern. You are right about forgetting to take care of ourselves. But I am sure you know that a loving mother, when her child is very sick or in danger, zeros in on that child as if nothing else in the whole world exists, until that child is well or safe. I have been fortunate most of the time in that when my kids were very sick, I was able to care for them and not get sick with them. Only one time can I remember being really sick with them. It was the vomiting flu and it was TERRIBLE! I remember my husband coming home from work and all my kids, 6 of them (some were teenagers) and I were on the floor in the family room in front of the fireplace moaning and groaning. I always seem to react to stress with a sense of humor. I think it is my coping mechanism. Well, when he walked in on this pathetic scene, I said where's Dr. Kevorkian when you need him?LOL (of course you know I am kidding)

Liese is doing better!! She is home out of the hospital! She has to take two weeks of a strong antibiotic. I pray she continues to get well. Thank you to all who prayed for her, and showed concern.

"KarenK,
Thanks for your post. I have to admit, I still don't understand, however, I don't think this is the appropriate time to question this with you."

Dear student, I hope I can help you understand. The ability to offer up one's suffering, and present it to Our Lord, is just that, a gift. But God does not need anything, so that gift is really for all of us. He can reflect it back, like a mirror, to us or to someone who needs special graces and blessings. But first that offering must be given to our Lord, and then He in turn transforms it back to us. "It is all to bind you together in love," says St. Paul, Whenever we suffer without love it is wasted.
Bishop Sheen once said that our hospitals are full of suffering, treasure loads to be offered to Our Lord. If people could only realize this. All we need to do is offer it. There is meaning in suffering, it has redemptive value. Jesus himself showed us this by His own suffering on the cross.
Also, Mary has said at some of the apparitions that people do not ask for graces. That there are so many graces to be bestowed on God's people, but they do not ask. Graces to believe, graces to better understand, graces to get through a difficult time, graces to do the right thing according to the Will of God. It is a mystery how God can do this, but it really makes sense, because God is gentle, and will not force anyone to love Him, if he did that would be taking our free will away from us; we need to ask. Hope this helped. karen

If you're willing to put a little time in, I'm putting a link below to Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Letter Salvifici Doloris on the meaning of human suffering. It gets at a lot of the same concepts Karen's quotes were getting at, just in a whole lot of depth.

http://tinyurl.com/3acxq

Is your daughter doing better? Please don't forget to take care of yourself too. Oftentimes when our children are ill we forget to do this.