Baby Saved From Abortion is Baptized

Catholic News Service ^ | 2/2/05

[marshmallow]

NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- Serena was three months pregnant and in turmoil. The young Panamanian-born mother of two was suffering from diabetes, and personnel at the Causeway Medical Clinic in Metairie, Louisiana's largest abortion clinic, told her the disease could cause severe birth defects in her unborn child if she went ahead and had the baby.

The ambivalence Serena felt after her first consultation at the abortion clinic intensified overnight. As she was driven to the facility for her scheduled abortion on April 10, 2004 -- Holy Saturday -- she saw a group of people walking and praying on the sidewalk in front of the clinic. Serena -- who asked that her last name not be used in print -- got out of the car just a few feet from the clinic entrance, and then decided to make a U-turn.

She walked over to Pam Richard, who along with her husband, John, coordinates the New Orleans Archdiocesan Sidewalk and Prayer Ministry, and to Jesuit Father Richard C. Hermes, who was keeping vigil with a group of students from the Pro-Life Club at Jesuit High School in New Orleans. Serena's story has an ending -- actually a beginning -- that Richard says still gives her goose bumps.

On Nov. 23 Serena gave birth to her third son, 8-pound, 7-ounce Jaykob Angel, healthy in every way. On Jan. 16 pro-life supporters and the students at Jesuit High School gathered at the student chapel as Father Hermes baptized the baby who had been saved from death. The Richards served as Jaykob's godparents.

[Mr. Silverback]

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[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

And it's a two-fer. A baby saved from abortion and a good Jesuit priest! (Catholic in-joke on the present state of the Jesuits). 1 posted on 02/02/2005 11:13:35 AM PST by marshmallow

Brings tears to your eyes, doesn't it?

IHS+

[NYer]

(Catholic in-joke on the present state of the Jesuits).

Hey ... wait a minute. EWTN's Fr. Mitch Pacwa is a Jesuit (and a Maronite) priest. Now we know of two Jesuits who measure up to the leadership of their founder, St. Ignatius of Loyola. ;-D

Great story! Thanks for posting it.

Catholic Ping - please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[MHGinTN]

You might have missed the story about the baby in Africa found attached to his mother's LIVER. Surgery at neaar natural term age (40 weeks is the usual) saved both he and his mother. You can read the story through this link to a free manuscript ... I think about fifty pages on from the beginning.

[Bellflower]

When he walked up to the young woman, he didn't have to say a word. She said, "I prayed last night that if I was supposed to have this baby, someone would walk up to me today outside this place."

This shows that everyone and anyone with a heart for wanting babies to be saved from a terrible death can make a difference. The LORD knows that the person you are has a special ability to reach certain others that nobody else can. I urgently encourage every person that reads this post to find an abortion "clinic" near to you and reach out to someone who needs to know that someone out there cares about her and her baby (also him and his baby as many fathers accompany their girlfriend). I plan at being at the Madison Planned Parenthood tomorrow and God has used me to help save babies and help their moms and families. I know that he can use you, too, in your own special way.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

It always amazed me that a state with as many devout Roman Catholics and Protestants as Louisiana, which is putatively pro-life, would elect someone of Mary Landrieu's dubious moral character.

Though, what's even more astounding-from my perspective-is the fact that she was reelected.

[dsc]

"In the end, what she needed was people to surround her with support and love and the confidence she could get the medical care she needed," Father Hermes said. "The people out in front of the clinic all of the time are the real warriors. If that presence had not been maintained over the years, this never would have happened. It was a beautiful moment, and it came on Holy Saturday. What a gift."

Lay up your treasures in Heaven.

Bet these people find compound interest in their accounts.

[franky]

You can contact the folloing and they will direct you:

Fr. Frank Pavone
Priests for Life
PO Box 141172
Staten Island, NY 10314
Tel. 888-PFL-3448, (718) 980-4400
Fax 718-980-6515
Email mail@priestsforlife.org

[franky]

I believe the following stats are self explanatory. Even the stats for women and fetus health are misleading due to the original posted scenario. How many of the 6% were legitimate health issues. Also planned parenthood promotes their efforts because "we get many" who have rape/incest. All abortion is intrinsically evil therefore it is not for we humans to play God.

National Statistics

Finance-21%

Not ready-21%

Woman’s Life would change-16%

Relationship Problems - 12%

Too young -11%

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Fetus health-3%

Woman’s Health -3%

Rape/Incest -1%

[franky]

Some information on Margaret Sanger-Planned Parenthood founder, originally called American Birth Control League:

"An Essay on the Principle of Population, published in six editions from 1798 to 1826:

All children born, beyond what would be required to keep up the population to a desired level, must necessarily perish, unless room is made for them by the deaths of grown persons. We should facilitate, instead of foolishly and vainly endeavoring to impede, the operations of nature in producing this mortality.4"

"Sanger nonetheless immersed herself in Malthusian eugenics. Grant wrote she argued for birth control using the “scientifically verified” threat of poverty, sickness, racial tension and overpopulation as its background. Sanger's publication, The Birth Control Review (founded in 1917) regularly published pro-eugenic articles from eugenicists, such as Ernst Rudin.7 Although Sanger ceased editing The Birth Control Review in 1929, the ABCL continued to use it as a platform for eugenic ideas.

Sanger built the work of the ABCL, and, ultimately, Planned Parenthood, on the ideas and resources of the eugenics movement. Grant reported that “virtually all of the organization's board members were eugenicists.” Eugenicists financed the early projects, from the opening of birth control clinics to the publishing of “revolutionary” literature.

Eugenicists comprised the speakers at conferences, authors of literature and the providers of services “almost without exception.” And Planned Parenthood's international work was originally housed in the offices of the Eugenics Society. The two organizations were intertwined for years.8
Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease.

Those vast, complex, interrelated organizations aiming to control and to diminish the spread of misery and destitution and all the menacing evils that spring out of this sinisterly fertile soil, are the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents and dependents.10

It [charity] encourages the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it, as I think the reader must agree, a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant [emphasis added].11

The most serious charge that can be brought against modern “benevolence” is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are the most dangerous elements in the world community, the most devastating curse on human progress and expression.12

It now remains for the U.S. government to set a sensible example to the world by offering a bonus or yearly pension to all obviously unfit parents who allow themselves to be sterilized by harmless and scientific means. In this way the moron and the diseased would have no posterity to inherit their unhappy condition. The number of the feeble-minded would decrease and a heavy burden would be lifted from the shoulders of the fit.13"

[franky]

My daughter inlaw has diabetes and 4 children.

[franky]

Yes, tonight, I watched Fr. Frank Pavone and he made the statement that the blood of these innocents are on our hands if we fail to take action. And God acts against those with blood on their hands.

The biggest thing right now is the apathy of the many. Unless it hits home it gets no response.

[radiohead]

Your tagline is driving me crazy. I vaguely remember it from Catholic school, but that was many years ago and I've since left the Church. What is the rest of it?

[franky]

It is from the LITANY OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED: The Church has taught and still teaches about Purgatory. Souls do not have any chances to reach heaven unless we pray for them. St Gertrude the Great has a prayer based on her revelation of the souls in Purgatory. The chances of us going right to heaven is slim unless we receive temporal punishment during our lives or cleansing in Purgatory.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/4435/litdep.htm

[franky]

From the Catechism and Evangelium Vitae

Abortion

Under no circumstances does the Church condone the practice of surgical or pharmaceutical abortions (such as RU-486 or the morning-after-pill). Abortion is tantamount to murder in the womb and cannot be justified by appealing to convenience, hardships, or “a woman’s right to choose”. Here is what the Church officially teaches in the Catechism:

Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person—among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life (CCC 2270).

In order to prevent Catholics from deceiving themselves and arguing that the Church’s two thousand year condemnation of abortion is only an opinion and not a doctrinal teaching of the faith, Pope John Paul II formally defined the condemnation of abortion in Evangelium Vitae:

Therefore, by the authority which Christ conferred upon Peter and his successors and in communion with the bishops . . . I declare that direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. This doctrine is based upon the natural law and upon the written word of God, is transmitted by the Church’s tradition and taught by the ordinary and universal magisterium. No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself, and proclaimed by the Church" (Evangelium Vitae 62).

http://www.saintaquinas.com/controversial.html

[dsc]

"Another possibility is the removal of the fallopian tube."

I don't see the moral distinction.

[Catholic54321]

Beautiful sotry, thanks!