Sanctity of Human Life – Page 262

40 Days for Life Prayer Campaign Kicks Off This Sunday

Feb 6, 2018Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

Each spring and fall pro-life Americans gather for prayer vigils outside abortion clinics across the country as part of 40 Days for Life.

These are not protests or rallies. They are peaceful assemblies where different people quietly pray each day that abortion will end.

The next 40 Days for Life campaign is just a few days away. You can take part in the prayer vigils outside the surgical abortion clinic in Little Rock.

There will be a kickoff meeting at 3:00 PM this Sunday featuring music, messages from local ministers, and prayer. The event will be held on the sidewalk outside the abortion clinic.

The official 40 Days for Life prayer campaign will last from February 14 – March 25 (Palm Sunday).

For more information visit the 40 Days for Life website or Facebook page.

U.S. Senate Rejects Pro-Life Legislation

Jan 30, 2018Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

Yesterday the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill banning most abortions after the fifth month of pregnancy.

The bill is similar to one passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last fall and a law Arkansas passed in 2013.

Arkansas’ U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton both co-sponsored this good bill and supported it yesterday.

Medical science shows unborn babies feel the pain of abortion, especially after the twentieth week of pregnancy. That’s one reason many states — as well as most countries on earth — have passed laws prohibiting late-term abortions. In fact, the United States is one of just seven countries that allows abortion after the fifth month of pregnancy.

In 2000, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Kennedy described the abortion process, writing, “The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. . . . The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.”

Abortion is a horrific procedure that takes the lives of unborn children.

I hope you will thank Sens. Boozman and Cotton for supporting the senate bill to ban abortion after the twentieth week of pregnancy. Links to their contact information are below.

U.S. SENATOR JOHN BOOZMAN (R – AR)

Click Here to Email U.S. Senator Boozman

U.S. SENATOR TOM COTTON (R – AR)

Click Here to Email U.S. Senator Cotton

In Europe, Euthanasia is Driving Doctors and Nurses to Quit

Jan 29, 2018Jerry CoxBioethics, Euthanasia and Assisted SuicideAssisted Suicide, Bioethics, Euthanasia, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

Author, attorney, and ethicist Wesley J. Smith recently penned a column outlining a serious problem in European countries like Belgium: Doctors and nurses are quitting because of euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Smith writes,

You become a doctor or nurse to be a healer palliator of people in serious pain and distress. You have a special place in your heart for the dying, and so you enter the specialized field of palliative care and hospice medicine.

But then, your country decides you should also become killers of the patients you want to succor. If you refuse, you face public criticism, the prospect of being sued, and perhaps one day, professional censure.

What do you do? If you are an ethical professional, rather than be complicit in homicide, you leave the field.

Doctors who specialize in end of life care and pain management — such as palliative care doctors in hospices and long term care facilities — are being forced to choose between their convictions and their careers.

One Belgian doctor said, “palliative care units are . . . at risk of becoming ‘houses of euthanasia’, which is the opposite of what they were meant to be.”

This is a disturbing trend. Palliative care offers terminally-ill people relief from pain and the opportunity to spend quality time with family as they near the end of life. These doctors and nurses provide vital services to people who are dying and to their families. Unlike euthanasia and assisted suicide, palliative care offers actual relief from suffering — without poisoning or killing any patients.

As we have said time and time again, being pro-life is about much more than opposing abortion. We do not eliminate suffering by eliminating people who are suffering. We must respect the sanctity of human life at the end of life as well as at the beginning.