On Thursday evening Feb.14 Marci and Carol held their solemn vigil in the cold parking lot of Problem Pregnancy, 623 Lincoln St. in Worcester. As they gazed into the Planned Parenthood parking lot next door, they noticed a young, well-dressed and earnest women go in and out of the door to Planned Parenthood. Finally the woman came out of Planned Parenthood walked over to Marci and Carol, leaned forward and asked if they were also against birth control. The young woman spouted statistics that claimed artificial birth control had no relation to the cheapening of human sexual relations over the last 50 years, and insisted that all that was needed to make abortions rare was more education, and more birth control.
Marci and Carol explained that the dignity of human persons is maintained and the beauty of the marital act in its proper moral context, marriage, is preserved by monogamous marriage. Contraception contributes to the idea that children are not a by-product of the marital act, and therefore contraception contributes to abortion because children are seen not as gifts from God but an unplanned consequence of selfishness.
The United States Supreme Court decision that confirmed Roe vs. Wade made clear this link when it stated,
"in some critical respects abortion is of the same character as the decision to use contraception ... for two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their place in society, in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail."
~ Planned Parenthood vs. Casey
I commented on the track record of Planned Parenthood, whose own statistics show abortion is done for convenience. Then Marci said we should get back to praying, the real work. This woman was a "true believer" in the Planned Parenthood Propaganda, and prayer will be much more effective in this debate. Please pray for her conversion.
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Keep up the good work here at DTF Jay. One day Our Lord will say, Operibus suis bene functus est! May the same be said of me. Perhaps Marci would benefit from an article written by my good friend Fr. Paul Marx of Human Life International:
http://www.fli.org.au/
issues/contraception/from-contraception-to-abortion/
In the meantime, I will be including Marci (and others who have succumbed to Planned Parenthood propaganda) in my prayers. And I will ask my readers to do the same.
Amen, amen.
It becomes ever clearer that the scourge of abortion will never be overcome until we pro-lifers (esp. Catholics) recognize the prophetic truth of Humanae Vitae and embrace the Church's teaching against artificial contraception.
One of the best info sources regarding this, in my opinion, is Human Life International
Many within my diocese (Manchester, NH) are not listening to the Church because it is perceived as being in crisis. Once again, troubling accusations are being levelled against the diocese in yet another lawsuit:http://www.unionleader
.com/article.aspx?headline=Ex-priest%27s+suit+makes+porn+
claim&articleId=5514a159-6963-
43a2-a2a0-2548080489ff
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