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Pro-Life World View | October 11, 2024

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This week on the Pro-Life World View, we bring you interesting articles discussing an attack on Pope Francis by the Belgian prime minister for proclaiming Catholic teaching on abortion, the manipulation of scientific evidence to serve the pro-abortion agenda, and how parental divorce affects children.

Belgium summons papal nuncio to complain of Pope’s unacceptable remarks about abortion
The Catholic Herald

Belgium summons papal nuncio to complain of “unheard-of” interference over abortion by Pope Francis

Belgium’s Prime Minister, Alexander de Croo, has labelled the remarks of Pope Francis on abortion as “unheard-of” interference in his country’s domestic affairs. He identifies the Pope as a foreign head of state, thereby seeking to turn the immorality of abortion into a diplomatic incident.

The Pope’s remarks were made on the plane when returning from Belgium when a journalist asked him about the late King Baudouin, who resigned for a day in 1990 rather than sign a law legalising abortion. His Holiness replied: “Let’s not forget to say this: abortion is murder.”

Michelle Kaufman, Family Life International National Director, commented: “Mr de Croo’s attack on the pope’s comments on abortion, as “unheard-of” interference in Belgium’s affairs, would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic. It is within the bounds of the papal office to speak with authority on faith and morals. Direct abortion, which is indeed a barbaric, violent act against an innocent pre-born child, is a moral matter that he and many other popes before him have strongly and rightly condemned.”

Facebook Post
AAPLOG

American Association of Pro Life OB/GYNs

In a Facebook post, the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (AAPLOG) has accused the US Society of Radiologists of changing their description of human development before birth to serve a pro-abortion agenda. The Association’s Facebook post says, “The Society of Radiologists was perfectly willing to admit that embryos have heartbeats until recently. Today, they instead recommend the term “cardiac activity” — never mind that ‘cardiac’ simply means ‘relating to the *heart*.” 

AAPLOG links to an article in the publication Radiology launching a new lexicon published by the Society of Radiologists in which the Society recommends that clinicians do not refer to the “heartbeat” but use terms such as “cardiac activity” and “beats per minute.” The authors insist the language change is necessary as terms like “heartbeat,” which is used in innumerable medico-scientific publications to indicate the biological reality that the baby’s heart begins to beat in the third week after conception, could be used by those seeking to pass legislation against abortion.

FLI’s National Director, Michelle Kaufman, says: “It is shameful that the Society of Radiologists in the US appears to be blatantly manipulating and misrepresenting scientific facts for political reasons to protect laws which permit the killing of preborn children. Ultimately, the truth will prevail.”

How does parental divorce affect children’s long-term outcomes?
Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, and Rudolf Winter-Ebner – Journal of Public Economics

How does parental divorce affect children’s long-term outcomes?

The authors of this carefully crafted study show a causal correlation between parental divorce and a strong negative association with life outcomes for children. They conclude that:

  • There is indeed a causal effect of parental divorce on their children’s long-term outcomes.
  • Parental divorce has persistent, mostly negative effects on their children.
  • The impact on boys of parental divorce shows up generally in lower levels of educational achievement, doing less well in labour-market terms, and being more likely to die early.
  • The impact on girls is similar in terms of lower educational outcomes. They are also more likely to have children at an early age but lose less in terms of employment.

Alleged suicide kit seller challenges murder charges to the Supreme Court of Canada
Alex Schadenberg – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Alleged suicide kit seller challenges murder charges to the Supreme Court of Canada

Kenneth Law is a Canadian who is facing 14 charges of second-degree murder – charges which have just been added to 14 earlier ones for aiding and abetting the suicide of the 14 Ontario-based victims.  Mr Law’s lawyers have argued that mailing “a toxic substance that another person later voluntarily consumes in another location with suicidal intent” cannot be said to be murder. 

Investigative journalists claim that Law has been supplying suicide kits, is implicated in 88 British deaths, and is possibly providing counselling to many hundreds of people internationally. If so, how many other deaths might be linked to the sale of such suicide kits in different parts of the world?

What is clear from a moral/ethical standpoint is that assisting someone to commit suicide in the way alleged would be material cooperation in their suicide.   It may not be murder, but it is a deadly sin, compounded by the advantage taken of people in apparently desperate emotional and/or psychological turmoil.

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