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“There is much deceit throughout the hierarchy. It will be cardinal against cardinal and bishop against bishop, for satan has set himself in their ranks.” – Our Lady of the Roses, May 28, 1977
“The encyclical of Pope Paul VI on birth control is true and must be followed by mankind. There shall be no rationalization of sin.” – Our Lady of the Roses, October 2, 1976
The Connecticut Catholic Blogspot really hit the nail on the head: “The Bishops have made a heart-sickening sleight of hand. Claiming if they avert their eyes, then no evil is taking place.”
And the sleight of hand continues. The November 2007 issue of the [Archdiocese of Hartford] Catholic Transcript contains numerous half-truths and rationalizations regarding the Plan B issue, including many false assurances that no evil has been committed.
Let’s put these claims to the test.
Claim #1 - That it is permissible to distribute Plan B, as long as there is moral uncertainty as to its effects: According to Msgr. David Liptak, “… if it is demonstrated with certainty [emphasis added] that the drug (drugs) used in Plan B effects an abortion, its (their) use cannot be morally justified.”[1] Dr. John Haas, siding with the decision of the Connecticut bishops, stated, “You have to know what you’re doing and what is happening from your actions to be held morally culpable for them.”[2]
Fact: In reality, even if there is doubt that Plan B may actually be an abortifacient, its use can never be justified. Father Christopher Kubat, M.D, a medical doctor turned Catholic priest and bioethics expert, who is also head of Catholic Charities in the diocese of Lincoln, [Nebraska], spoke against the use of Plan B in Catholic hospitals recalling the moral principle: "If there's doubt of fact, you don't act."[3]
Arguing for a pharmacist’s right to refuse to dispense the morning after pill, Bishop Cristián Contreras of Chile said, "This is a matter of human life. Whenever there is a minimum doubt of the existence of human life the safest options must be taken".[4]
Fr. Peter Fehlner, a Doctor of Sacred Theology, writes, "The fact is, if we have any doubt about whether a given action would directly risk someone's life, entail a violation of justice or threaten the salvation of a soul, we may not act on the basis of a scientific probability," he writes. "That means even if the pill in Plan B is only 'dubiously' abortive, we simply may not use it at all."[5]
Msgr. William Smith, in his online course notes for the Moral Magisterium of John Paul II, states, “Thus, the two conventional maxims of traditional morality: (1) one can ALWAYS act on a certain conscience; (2) one should NEVER act on a doubtful conscience. What do you do with a doubt? The same thing one does in other practical areas of life: you get more information, you ask people who have lived well enough and long enough to know what they are talking about. Clearly, if the doubt involves a small matter, we have to make a little effort to resolve it; if it is a big matter or important value, we have to make a big effort to resolve the doubt and achieve the practical certitude we need to act on a certain conscience. These distinctions are reflected in the Catechism #1786-1751.”[6]
Ignorance doesn’t always excuse. Contrary to the claim of Dr. Haas that you always have to know what you are doing to be morally responsible for it, the Church teaches that ignorance can be a sin. It would be a sin for a person to be ignorant, that is, failing to be properly informed, either through negligence or malice. The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives an example of culpable ignorance: “For a bad effect to be imputable it must be foreseeable and the agent must have the possibility of avoiding it, as in the case of manslaughter caused by a drunken driver.” (Catechism, #1737)
Or, in the case of a foreseeable abortion caused by giving Plan B to rape victims.
And there is the classic example of a hunter shooting deer in the forest. If he hears a sound in the woods and he is going to shoot, he has to be clear as to the target because it could be another hunter making that sound. If he shoots, without knowing if it is a deer or a hunter, by intention he is committing murder because he was willing to take the chance of murdering a fellow hunter by not taking the extra step of identifying his target and verifying the outcome of his actions.
So too, the Connecticut bishops were willing to take the chance with Plan B hoping it was not an abortifacient, even though a mistake on their part will mean the death of any newly conceived baby whose mother received Plan B in Connecticut Catholic hospitals.
Claim #2: That it is uncertain whether Plan B is an abortifacient.
Fact: Fr. Thomas Euteneuer, President of Human Life International, said it best:
“The truth is that there is absolutely no doubt about how the Plan B pills work. Just ask the manufacturer, Barr Pharmaceuticals, whose product insert states: ‘This product works mainly by preventing ovulation (egg release). It may also prevent fertilization of a released egg (joining of sperm and egg) or attachment of a fertilized egg to the uterus (implantation).’ (My italics.) It's that third item that makes Plan B an abortion-causing drug. The same can be said for every chemical contraceptive.”[7]
The Catholic Medical Association, the largest professional organization of Catholic physicians in the U.S., is opposed to Plan B: “Medical evidence demonstrates that the pregnancy tests used cannot accurately detect a pregnancy at fertilization but only after implantation which takes more than a week after the new life is formed. At its Annual Meeting in 2003, the Catholic Medical Association passed a resolution correcting theologians who have erroneously suggested that it would be legitimate for Catholic hospitals to provide ‘emergency contraception’ to rape victims. Echoing the Vatican, the resolution stated that that the morning after pill ‘cannot be ethically employed by a Catholic physician or administered in a Catholic Hospital in cases of rape’. Dr. Chris Kahlenborn said bluntly, ‘The bishops who approve this are approving potential abortions.’"[8]
A former high-ranking Vatican official and Chilean cardinal, Jorge Medina Estevez, stated that he had sent two letters to the Chilean government, containing scientific documentation that the "morning after pill" causes abortions and does not only operate as a contraceptive.[9]
A
federal court confirmed the right of Washington pharmacists to obey the
conscience to refuse to distribute Plan B: “The court correctly held that the
regulations force health care providers to ‘dispense a drug that ends a life as
defined by their religious teachings.’ No health care professional should be
forced to participate in destroying human life to preserve his or her
professional license,” said Alliance Defense Fund senior counsel Gary McCaleb.[10]
So even a state court is sufficiently convinced that Plan B is an abortifacient,
enough to rule in favor of those with religiously-held convictions against such
drugs.
Even the abortionists state that Plan B may prevent implantation of the baby embryo, which is an abortion. However, they have the false view that human life begins at implantation rather than conception, and so they vainly protest that Plan B does not cause an abortion. The abortionists have no doubt as to what Plan B can do:
From the
manufacturer at
www.go2planb.com/ForConsumers/AboutPlanB/HowItWorks.aspx
Plan B works like a regular birth control pill. It prevents pregnancy mainly by
stopping the release of an egg from the ovary, and may also prevent the
fertilization of an egg (the uniting of the sperm with the egg). Plan B may also
work by preventing it from attaching to the uterus (womb).”
From NARAL (National Abortion
Rights Action League) at
www.prochoiceamerica.org/issues/birth_control/emergency-contraception/emergency-contraception.html
Emergency Contraception (EC), also known as the “morning-after” pill, is simply
a concentrated dose of ordinary birth-control pills that can substantially
reduce a woman’s chance of becoming pregnant when taken within days of
unprotected sex. EC does not cause abortion; rather it prevents pregnancy by
inhibiting ovulation, fertilization, or implantation before a pregnancy
occurs.”
From The Federal Food and Drug
Administration at
www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/planB/planBQandA20060824.htm
Plan B works
like a birth control pill to prevent pregnancy mainly by stopping the release of
an egg from the ovary. It is possible that Plan B may also work by preventing
fertilization of an egg (the uniting of sperm with the egg) or by preventing
attachment (implantation) to the uterus (womb), which usually occurs beginning 7
days after release of an egg from the ovary. Plan B will not do anything to a
fertilized egg already attached to the uterus. The pregnancy will continue.”
From the Center for Reproductive
Rights at
www.reproductiverights.org/pub_fac_ecicpd.html
“Because emergency contraception is used at all stages of a woman’s menstrual
cycle, its mode of action varies. After intercourse, emergency contraception may
prevent pregnancy by delaying or inhibiting ovulation, inhibiting fertilization,
or inhibiting implantation of the fertilized egg.”
From The Kaiser Family
Foundation at
www.kaiseredu.org/topics_im.asp?id=400&imID=1&parentID=72#1b
“Research suggests that Plan B prevents pregnancy by delaying or inhibiting
ovulation or fertilization, or inhibiting a fertilized egg from implanting in
the uterus.”
From
Princeton University’s Emergency Contraception Information Web site at
http://ec.princeton.edu/questions/echosp.html
“If you have been raped, however, a Catholic hospital might be able to provide
emergency contraceptive pills to help you prevent pregnancy. Directive 36 seems
to allow providing emergency contraception to ‘a female who has been raped to
defend herself against a potential conception from the sexual assault . . . if,
after appropriate testing there is no indication she is pregnant.’ It does not
say how to determine if conception has occurred and, since emergency
contraception might sometimes prevent implantation of a fertilized egg (which
happens after conception), Catholic hospitals still have to interpret the
directives and decide if they can provide emergency contraceptive pills to a
woman who has been raped.”[11]
Claim #3: That it is not intrinsically evil to give contraception to rape victims.
Fact: On September 17, 1983, Pope John Paul II told priests in Rome that “contraception is to be judged objectively so profoundly unlawful as never to be, for any reason, justified. To think or to say the contrary is equal to maintaining that, in human life, situations may arise in which it is lawful not to recognize God as God.”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, promulgated by Pope John Paul II, states, “… ‘every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible’ is intrinsically evil” (#2370).
On March 1, 1997, the Vatican Pontifical Council for the Family stated, "The Church has always taught the intrinsic evil of contraception, that is, of every marital act intentionally rendered unfruitful. This teaching is to be held as definitive and irreformable." (Vademecum for Confessors, #4)
Intrinsically evil means always and everywhere evil, regardless of intentions or circumstances. Intrinsically evil actions “remain ‘irremediably’ evil acts; per se and in themselves they are not capable of being ordered to God and to the good of the person.” (Pope John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor, #81)
Intentions that seem good to protect the welfare of
an individual (i.e., compassion for a rape victim) would never justify
performing an intrinsically evil act, such as contraception. This was clearly
stated by Pope Paul VI in Humanae Vitae: “It is never lawful, even for
the gravest reasons, to do evil that good may come of it (cf. Rom 3:8)—in other
words, to intend directly something which of its very nature contradicts the
moral order, and which must therefore be judged unworthy of man, even though
the intention is to protect or promote the welfare of an individual, of a family
or of society in general.” (Humanae Vitae, #14)
The Doctor of Theology, Fr. Peter Fehlner, states, “To accept the child
conceived as a consequence of rape is simply a blessing as contrasted with the
evil of attempting to prevent such a conception via the use of contraceptive
medications, for all children are a blessing.”[12]
Claim #4: That the Vatican has not given adequate guidance on this subject, and until this uncertainty is clarified, the distribution of Plan B in Catholic hospitals is morally permissible.
Fact: If additional Vatican declarations are needed, here they are: On September 29, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI warned against dispensing drugs that have the goal of preventing the implantation of the human embryo: "It is not possible to anesthetize the conscience, for example, when it comes to molecules whose aim is to stop an embryo implanting or to cut short someone's life... I invite your federation [of pharmacists] to consider conscientious objection which is a right that must be recognized for your profession so you can avoid collaborating, directly or indirectly, in the supply of products which have clearly immoral aims, for example abortion or euthanasia..."
In 2000, the Vatican Pontifical Council for the Family stated, “From the ethical standpoint the same absolute unlawfulness of abortifacient procedures also applies to distributing, prescribing and taking the morning-after pill. All who, whether sharing the intention or not, directly co-operate with this procedure, are also morally responsible for it."[13]
On March 1, 1997, the Vatican Pontifical Council for the Family emphasized that contraception “denies the sovereign role of God in the transmission of human life.” (Vademecum for Confessors, #4).
And the great encyclical by Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae, has for nearly forty years clearly taught the Church’s prohibition on contraception. Pope Paul VI emphasized that no one has unlimited dominion over their generative faculties: “just as man does not have unlimited dominion over his body in general, so also, with particular reason, he has no such dominion over his generative faculties as such, because of their intrinsic ordination towards raising up life, of which God is the principle.” (Humanae Vitae, #13). Also, Pope Paul VI stated that the prohibition against contraception applies in all scenarios, regardless of circumstances or intentions:
"In conformity with these
landmarks in the human and Christian vision of marriage, we must once again
declare that the direct interruption of the generative process already begun,
and, above all, directly willed and procured abortion, even if for therapeutic
reasons, are to be absolutely excluded as licit means of regulating birth.
"Equally to be excluded, as the teaching authority of the Church has
frequently declared, is direct sterilization, whether perpetual or temporary,
whether of the man or of the woman. Similarly excluded is every action which,
either in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the
development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a
means, to render procreation impossible." (Humanae Vitae, #14)
Claim #5: That the Connecticut law mandating the distribution of Plan B is a “flawed law.”
Fact: Actually, the Connecticut “law” mandating the
distribution of Plan B is no law at all. As Pope John Paul II has clearly
stated, “In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting
abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to ‘take part
in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.’” And,
"Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to
legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead
there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious
objection."[14]
Confusion, or disobedience to the Pope?
The teaching of Humanae Vitae binds all persons, not just Catholics: Pope John Paul II, in his series of catecheses on Humanae Vitae, stated: “the norm of the encyclical concerns all men, insofar as it is a norm of the natural law and is based on conformity with human reason (when, it is understood, human reason is seeking truth).”[15]
On September 17, 1983 Pope John Paul II stated that contraception is intrinsically evil due to the fact that when “couples remove from the exercise of their conjugal sexuality its potential creative capacity, they claim a power which belongs solely to God; the power to decide in a final analysis the coming into existence of a human person. They assume the qualification not of being cooperators in God’s creative power, but the ultimate depositories of the source of human life. In this perspective, contraception is to be judged objectively so profoundly unlawful as never to be, for any reason, justified. To think or to say the contrary is equal to maintaining that in human life situations may arise in which it’s lawful not to recognize God as God.”[16]
It is not credible that the Connecticut bishops are in ignorance, either as to the Church’s clear prohibition against contraception, or the abortifacient nature of Plan B.
What separates the Connecticut bishops from the Chilean bishops (who have rejected the morning after pill) is not knowledge, but willingness to obey the Pope and the magisterium. When bishops and theologians are using equivocal language and rationalizations in favor of committing intrinsically evil acts (i.e., abortion and contraception), we are no longer in the arena of innocent ignorance, but of deliberate obfuscation and deceit, which adds additional gravity to the crime.
Contraception in Catholic hospitals is a contradiction in terms; to profess belief in the intrinsic evil of abortion and contraception on one hand and then come up with an exception to an “exceptionless” teaching, is a contradiction in terms.
Pope John Paul II warned: “even within the Christian community, voices have been heard, and are still being heard, which cast doubt upon the very truth of the Church’s teaching. This teaching has been vigorously expressed by Vatican II, by the Encyclical Humanae Vitae, by the Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris Consortio and by the recent Instruction ‘The Gift of Life.’… The Church’s teaching on contraception does not belong to the category of matter open to free discussion among theologians.”[17]
The devil’s calling card is moral ambiguity. According to Fr. Robert Carr, “one of the signs of the demonic is moral ambiguity. The light of reason turns dark and there is a loss of a sense of right and wrong.”[18]
Regarding the Connecticut bishops, the word ‘deluded’ comes readily to mind, as does the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes.
[1]
“The Plan B Issue,” Msgr. David Q. Liptak, The [Archdiocese of Hartford]
Catholic Transcript, p. 39, November 2007.
[2]
“Plan B law goes into effect in state,” Roberta Tuttle, The [Archdiocese
of Hartford] Catholic Transcript, p. 45.
[3]
“Chilean and US Catholic Bishops go opposite ways on morning after pill,”
LifeSiteNews.com, November 5, 2007.
[4]
Ibid.
[5]
“World renowned theologian renders possibly decisive blow in debate on Plan
B in Catholic hospitals,” LifeSiteNews.com, October 23, 2007.
[6]
International Catholic University, “Moral Magisterium of John Paul II”,
Msgr. William Smith,
http://home.comcast.net/~icuweb/c01307.htm.
[7]
Human Life International President: "Plan A: Keep 'Plan B' out of Catholic
hospitals", LifeSiteNews.com, October 5, 2007.
[8]
Connecticut bishops allow Plan B in Catholic hospitals for rape--Catholic
Medical Association opposed, LifeSiteNews.com, September 28, 2007.
[9]
Chilean Cardinal affirms that "morning after" contraceptive pill "is not
medicine”, LifeSiteNews.com, November 22, 2007.
[10]
“Court stops enforcement of Washington regulations targeting pharmacists,
pharmacies who don’t stock abortion drugs,” Alliance Defense Fund, November
8, 2007.
[11]
“Commentary: Understanding Plan B,”
Rev. Deacon Tom Davis, The [Archdiocese of Hartford] Catholic Transcript,
April 27, 2007.
[12]
“Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, S.T.D., weighs in on Plan B in Connecticut,”
October 9, 2007, Airmaria.com.
http://www.airmaria.com/?p=576
[13]
“Statement on the So-Called Morning After Pill,” Vatican Pontifical Council
for Life, October 31, 2000.
[14]
Encyclical Letter The Gospel of Life, Pope John Paul II, #73, March
25, 1995.
[15]
July 18, 1984 at St. Peter’s; see L’Osservatore Romano, July 23,
1984.
[16]
“The Papal Talk of 17 Sept.,” Fr. David Q. Liptak, The [Archdiocese of
Hartford] Catholic Transcript, January 20, 1984.
[17]
“The Church’s teaching on contraception is not a matter for free discussion
among theologians,” L’Osservatore Romano, p. 12, July 6, 1987.
[18]
“The Manifestation of the Demonic in Massachusetts,” Fr. Robert J. Carr,
March 5, 2006,
http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=3056.
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Citta del Vaticano"Many now rebel against their leader, their God-given leader, your Vicar. In matters of faith and morals, man must not change the God-given laws, coming from the seat of Peter, and established through tradition upon earth through My Son's Church." - Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1979
“We warned you over and over again, through years of visitations upon earth--My Mother going to and fro to warn you, that those who have given themselves over to debasement, by the practice of homosexuality, birth control, abortion and all other aberrations that bring sorrow to My Mother's heart--this must be stopped now. There shall be no excuse accepted in Heaven by the saints, nor by My Mother and I, or the Eternal Father and the Holy Ghost, for what you are doing upon earth now.” - Jesus, June 6, 1987
“Permissiveness shall not be accepted by your God. Sin is sin; there is no compromise for sin. Mortal sin is a grievous offense to the Eternal Father. The Commandments shall be followed without permissiveness.” – Jesus, November 21, 1977
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Vatican: “The Church has always taught the intrinsic evil of contraception” |
"The
Church has always taught the intrinsic evil of contraception, that is, of every
marital act intentionally rendered unfruitful. This teaching is to be held as
definitive and irreformable."
- "Vademecum for Confessors: Concerning Some Aspects of the Morality of Conjugal Life," #4, Vatican Pontifical Council for the Family, March 1, 1997.
"From the ethical standpoint the same absolute unlawfulness of abortifacient procedures also applies to distributing, prescribing and taking the morning-after pill. All who, whether sharing the intention or not, directly co-operate with this procedure, are also morally responsible for it."
- “Statement on the So-Called Morning After Pill,” Vatican Pontifical Council for Life, October 31, 2000.
"It is not possible to
anesthetize the conscience, for example, when it comes to molecules whose aim is
to stop an embryo implanting or to cut short someone's life... I invite your
federation [of pharmacists] to consider conscientious objection which is a right
that must be recognized for your profession so you can avoid collaborating,
directly or indirectly, in the supply of products which have clearly immoral
aims, for example abortion or euthanasia..."
- Pope Benedict XVI, address to Catholic Pharmacists, October 29, 2007
On
June 5, 1987, Pope John Paul II warned clergy and theologians of their grave
obligation to faithfully transmit the Church’s teaching on contraception: “A
grave responsibility derives from this: those who place themselves in open
conflict with the law of God, authentically taught by the Church, guide spouses
along a false path. The Church’s teaching on contraception does not belong to
the category of matter open to free discussion among theologians. Teaching the
contrary amounts to leading the moral consciences of spouses into error.”
- "The Church's teaching on contraception is not a matter for free discussion among theologians," L'Osservatore Romano, July 6, 1987, p. 12.
On September 17, 1983, Pope John Paul II told priests in Rome that “contraception is to be judged objectively so profoundly unlawful as never to be, for any reason, justified. To think or to say the contrary is equal to maintaining that, in human life, situations may arise in which it is lawful not to recognize God as God.”
- quotation from “The Papal Talk of 17 Sept.,” The [Hartford] Catholic Transcript, David Q. Liptak, January 20, 1984.
"In fact, just as man does
not have unlimited dominion over his body in general, so also, with particular
reason, he has no such dominion over his generative faculties as such, because
of their intrinsic ordination towards raising up life, of which God is the
principle. 'Human life is sacred,' Pope John XXIII recalled; 'from its very
inception it reveals the creating hand of God.'
"In conformity with these landmarks in the human and
Christian vision of marriage, we must once again declare that the direct
interruption of the generative process already begun, and, above all, directly
willed and procured abortion, even if for therapeutic reasons, are to be
absolutely excluded as licit means of regulating birth.
"Equally to be excluded, as the teaching authority of
the Church has frequently declared, is direct sterilization, whether perpetual
or temporary, whether of the man or of the woman. Similarly excluded is every
action which, either in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its
accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes,
whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible."
- Pope Paul VI, encyclical Humanae Vitae, July 25, 1968 (#13-14).
Asked
what he would do if pushed on the issue by the state, Bishop Sheridan indicated
that he would likely rather have the Church pull out of hospitals than
compromise the faith. "If I personally were being pushed on this and had to
make the decision by myself, I'd have to question whether or not we could
continue that particular ministry if the state were going to force us to act
contrary to Catholic teaching, to the Catholic conscience," he told
LifeSiteNews.com.
Bishop Sheridan concluded, "How could you continue to call yourself Catholic if you were doing things that were contrary to Catholic teaching even if you were being forced by the state to do them?"
- “Colorado Springs Bishop Says He Does Not and Would Not Permit Plan B in Catholic Hospitals”, LifeSiteNews.com, October 10, 2007.
The
truth is that there is absolutely no doubt about how the Plan B pills work. Just
ask the manufacturer, Barr Pharmaceuticals, whose product insert states: "This
product works mainly by preventing ovulation (egg release). It may also
prevent fertilization of a released egg (joining of sperm and egg) or
attachment of a fertilized egg to the uterus (implantation)." (My
italics.) It's that third item that makes Plan B an abortion-causing drug. The
same can be said for every chemical contraceptive.
- Human Life International
President: "Plan A: Keep 'Plan B' out of Catholic hospitals", LifeSiteNews.com,
October 5, 2007.
“The Vatican did not need to invent any new teaching on the Plan B pills because these pills fall into the category of abortifacient contraception, pure and simple. The consistent teaching of our Church on abortion applies here.”
- Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer, quotation from “A ‘seriously flawed’ decision in Connecticut,” The [Los Angeles] Tidings, October 19, 2007.
"Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection."
- Pope John Paul II, encyclical The Gospel of Life, #73, March 25, 1995.
"The [abortion]
excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the
penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime
would not have been committed."
- Pope John Paul II, encyclical The Gospel of Life, #62, March 25, 1995.
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These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica
Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:
SIXTY MILLION
"I say this for this reason: the Eternal Father is much disturbed at the numbers
of abortions being committed throughout your country and the world. These
numbers go upwards to fifty to sixty million in one year throughout the world."
- Our Lady, June 18, 1986
TREATED AS GARBAGE
"O My child, My tears fall upon you all when I see all of the innocent little
babies being slaughtered . . . cast into garbage pails like nothing but dirt and
scum. They are living human beings! And all murderers shall get their just
recompense." - Our Lady, March 18,
1983
DOCTORS
"Doctors now are profaning their profession, those who have given themselves
over to destroying human life in abortions." - Jesus,
June 6, 1987
FOULEST OF DEEDS
"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man.
Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable
by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
"I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or
takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a
heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that
person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the
fires of hell." - Our Lady, December
28, 1976
TORMENT
"The torment that will be visited upon those who murder the innocent shall be
eternal damnation and feasting their eyes upon the murdered souls." - Our
Lady, May 10, 1972
SAINTS CRY OUT FOR PUNISHMENT
"Oh, the greatest of sorrow is
upon Our hearts because of the loss of the little ones. Your country, My child,
and many countries throughout your world, shall do great penance for the murders
of the young, the abortions, the murders being committed in your country. The
saints in Heaven cry out for punishment upon a wicked generation. Never in the
past, in all the slaughters of history, has there been such wanton killing of
the young and the innocent! I say unto you, as your God, you shall be brought
down to your knees! You, evil mankind, you shall be cleansed in a bloodbath!” -
Jesus, February 1, 1977
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https://www.tldm.org/News11/PopeJohnPaulIIContraceptionNeverJustified.htmEmergency "Contraception" and Early Abortion
https://www.tldm.org/News11/EmergencyContraceptionAndEarlyAbortion.htmWorld renowned theologian renders possibly decisive blow in debate on Plan B in Catholic hospitals
https://www.tldm.org/News11/DecisiveBlowInPlanBDebate.htmHuman Life International President: "Plan A: Keep 'Plan B' out of Catholic hospitals"
https://www.tldm.org/News11/Keep'PlanB'OutOfCatholicHospitals.htmPlan B for rape victims: a pig with earrings
https://www.tldm.org/News11/PlanBPigWithEarrings.htmA 'seriously flawed' decision in Connecticut
https://www.tldm.org/News11/SeriouslyFlawedDecisionInCT.htmUS Court rules pharmacists must have rights of conscience respected
https://www.tldm.org/News11/Pharmacists'RightsOfConscienceMustBeRespected.htmAustralia's Cardinal Pell: Dispels "heresy" that Catholics can approve contraception "in good conscience"
https://www.tldm.org/News11/CardinalPellHeresyThatCatholicsCanApproveContraception.htmColorado Springs Bishop says he does not and would not permit Plan B in Catholic hospitals
https://www.tldm.org/News11/ColoradoSpringsBishopPlanB.htmCatholic Media Coalition asks Connecticut Bishops to rescind approval of abortifacient Plan B
https://www.tldm.org/News11/CatholicMediaCoalitionConnecticutBishops.htmBishops of Connecticut: Are you willing to risk murder?
https://www.tldm.org/News11/BishopsWillingToRiskMurder.htmU.S. Catholic Health Association giving flawed advice on morning after pill to Catholic hospitals
https://www.tldm.org/News11/CHAGivingFlawedAdvice.htmUK Cardinal standing firm in his refusal to allow a famous Catholic hospital to make abortion referrals or provide contraceptives
https://www.tldm.org/News11/UKCardinalCatholicHospital.htmPoint man for Connecticut Bishops on Plan B 'emergency contraception' totally confused on issue
https://www.tldm.org/News11/PointManForCTBishopsTotallyConfused.htmConnecticut bishops allow Plan B in Catholic hospitals for rape--Catholic Medical Association opposed
https://www.tldm.org/News11/ConnecticutBishopsAllowPlanBinCatholicHospitalsForRape.htmConnecticut bishops should reconsider: Russian roulette with the lives of babies is unacceptable
https://www.tldm.org/News11/ConnecticutBishopsRussianRoulette.htmOnline video: Noted endocrinologist explains how the birth control pill causes abortion
https://www.tldm.org/News11/BirthControlPillCausesAbortion.htmPlan B manufacturer admits morning after pill can cause death of an embryo
https://www.tldm.org/News9/ContraceptionDeathOfEmbryo.htmAdvisory doctor to FDA confirms morning-after pill acts as abortifacient
https://www.tldm.org/News9/ContraceptionFDAadvisor.htmConscientious objection to Plan B and abortifacients:
Washington pharmacists win victory on law forcing Plan B prescriptions
https://www.tldm.org/News11/WashingtonPharmacistsWinVictory.htmPope tells pharmacists not to dispense drugs to inhibit implantation
https://www.tldm.org/News11/PopeDoNotDispenseDrugsThatInhibitImplantation.htmUS Court rules pharmacists must have rights of conscience respected
https://www.tldm.org/News11/Pharmacists'RightsOfConscienceMustBeRespected.htmPharmacists sue Washington state for forcing them to sell morning after pill
https://www.tldm.org/News11/ContraceptionPharmacistsSueWashingtonState.htmPharmacist vows he will not dispense abortifacient despite job loss
https://www.tldm.org/News8/PharmacistAbortifacient.htmUK Cardinal standing firm in his refusal to allow a famous Catholic hospital to make abortion referrals or provide contraceptives
https://www.tldm.org/News11/UKCardinalCatholicHospital.htmColorado Springs Bishop says he does not and would not permit Plan B in Catholic hospitals
https://www.tldm.org/News11/ColoradoSpringsBishopPlanB.htm
The Church and the State today: What
belongs to Caesar and what doesn't, Archbishop Chaput (PDF file)
http://www.archden.org/images/ArchbishopCorner/Addresses/church&statetoday_newyork10.26.07.pdf
Humanae Vitae:
Pope John Paul II: Contraception is so profoundly
unlawful as never to be, for any reason, justified
https://www.tldm.org/News11/PopeJohnPaulIIContraceptionNeverJustified.htm
Bishop Vasa: Catholic disobedience on contraception has
caused "tremendous harm to society"
https://www.tldm.org/News11/CatholicDisobedienceOnContraception.htm
Pope Paul was prophetic
https://www.tldm.org/news4/contraception.htm
Contraception is intrinsically evil
https://www.tldm.org/news6/contraception.htm
Abortion and the contraceptive mentality
https://www.tldm.org/news4/contraception%5Fabortion.htm
Confirmed deaths caused by
RU-486
https://www.tldm.org/News7/AbortionRU-486.htm
Abortion Pill, RU-486, kills 5 women in one month
https://www.tldm.org/news8/AbortionPill.RU-486KillsWomen.htm
Outside Links…
Contraception:
'As Fruits of the Same Tree': The Abortifacient Nature of the So-Called 'Morning-After Pill', by Maria Luisa Di Pietro
Institute of Bioethics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. Rome
http://www.catholicculture.org/library/view.cfm?id=1178&repos=1&subrepos=&searchid=123454Father Fehlner Weighs In on Plan B In Connecticut
http://www.catholicculture.org/library/view.cfm?recnum=7838Plan B betrayal, First Things magazine
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=441"Morning after" pill is grounds for excommunication, Honduran bishops warn, Catholic World News, February 10, 2004
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=27558&repos=4&subrepos=0&searchid=123454Plan B: A Grave Threat to Women's Health, Family Research Council
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=IF06H01&f=WA06H29Contraceptive Claims, Catholic Answers
http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/1992/9202fea2.aspRejecting Humanae Vitae is a Sin, by Paul Likoudis
http://www.catholic-pages.com/morality/hv-angelini.aspInfallibility of Humanae Vitae, by Fr Brian W. Harrison, O.S.
http://www.catholic-pages.com/morality/hvinfallible.aspEmergency Contraception: The Morning-After Pill (American Life League)
http://www.all.org/article.php?id=10130Pharmacists agree with Pope on contraception, [New York] Newsday, October 30, 2007
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/ny-lipharm305438291oct30,0,3666669.storyPope Benedict challenges pharmacists to refuse to dispense abortion pill, Catholic News Agency, October 29, 2007
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10813Pope Wants Pharmacists To Refuse Emergency Contraceptive Prescriptions, My Fox St. Louis, October 29, 2007
http://www.myfoxstl.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=4776777&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1Pope to Druggists: Shun Immoral Scripts, Associated Press, October 29, 2007
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jw4DfRJJM5LHehUvvOG8BRS1VtuwD8SJ2J8G0The bishops cave, The [Waterbury] Republican American, October 1, 2007
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2007/10/01/opinion/288573.txtContraception: Fatal to the Faith and to Eternal Life, John A. Hardon, S.J.
Is Contraception Gravely Sinful Matter? by Fr Lino Ciccone CM (from L'Osservatore Romano, 4 December 1996)
Faithfulness to the Divine Plan in the Transmission of Life Pope John Paul II's General Audience (8 August 1984)
Humanae Vitae Pope Paul VI - Encyclical - On the Regulation of Births (25 July 1968)
Contraception Versus Abortion: A Comparison and Some Implications, By Msgr. Vincent Foy, PhD.
Contraception and Catholic Teaching, Donald DeMarco, Ph.D.
God and the Pill, Terence J. Hughes
Abortifacients, Charles M. Mangan
Abortion:
Sin to vote for pro-abortion politicians? Fr. Matthew Habiger
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/SINTOVOT.HTM
“Whoever is not with Me, is against Me,” Archbishop William Levada
http://www.ewtn.com/library/BISHOPS/LEVADA.HTM
Declaration on procured abortion (CDF, November 18, 1974)
http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDFABORT.HTM
The Gospel of Life, Pope John Paul II, March 25, 1995
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/JP2EVANG.HTM
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