in this issue: hot button issue: SOUTH DAKOTA / T-SHIRT DAYabortion: MARCH OF DIMES condoms: DOUBLE EFFECT?eugenics: MAKING PERFECT BABIES / MAKING PERFECT USeuthanasia: HOSPICE DANGERin vitro fertilization: RISK TO BABIESpersonhood: RIGHT TO… Read More »Communique – Mar. 10, 2006
“Anyone who calls himself pro-life but does not approve of the new South Dakota law does not deserve to be thought of as pro-life,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League.
South Dakota Gov. Michael Rounds made a great statement when he signed the genuinely pro-life bill that just arrived on his desk from the state legislature.
“While high-profile media attention has been focused on South Dakota’s effort to outlaw abortion, Hawaii is quietly set to become the baby killing center of the Pacific,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League.
American Life League welcomes the South Dakota bill which outlaws all medical and surgical abortions in the state without exception (despite news reports claiming there is an exception for life of the mother).
Reading a recent article in the Christian Science Monitor on the no-exceptions South Dakota Bill really makes one wonder what the “practical” and “pragmatic” in the pro-life ranks are waiting for.
If you ever start to think that the world is suffering from a venom shortage, just start a blog and say something controversial.
Judie Brown, president of American Life League and a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, offers the following report on the academy’s February 27-28 meeting on the moral status of the preimplantation human embryo.
More than twenty years ago we flew to Rome for a meeting, and a very tall man accompanied us — my husband, our three young children and me — to the Pope’s Sunday Mass.
“There is a point at which passive ‘tolerance’ allows misleading teachings to be spread and propagated, thus confusing or even misleading the faithful about the truths of the Church…There is a very strong word, which still exists in our Church, which most of us are too ‘gentle’ to use. The word is ‘heresy.’”
“It is a sad fact that propaganda is trampling truth in the debate over the so-called emergency contraceptive pill,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League.
Women are told that reproductive health services are designed to better their lives. They are also told that anti-abortion zealots are infringing upon these services.