[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Barrie Hussein in his own words, an abortoholic; Egan equates abortion crimes to Stalin, Hitler

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*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 28 Oct 2008 AD

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Barrie Hussein in his own words...an abortoholic.*
http://americaschoicenow.com/

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*Just Look: Cardinal Egan Compares Abortion Crimes to those of Hitler, 
Stalin*

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/oct/08102412.html
By Edward Cardinal Egan, Archbishop of New York

October 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The picture on this page is an 
untouched photograph of a being that has been within its mother for 20 
weeks. Please do me the favor of looking at it carefully.

Have you any doubt that it is a human being?

If you do not have any such doubt, have you any doubt that it is an 
innocent human being?

If you have no doubt about this either, have you any doubt that the 
authorities in a civilized society are duty-bound to protect this 
innocent human being if anyone were to wish to kill it?

If your answer to this last query is negative, that is, if you have no 
doubt that the authorities in a civilized society would be duty-bound to 
protect this innocent human being if someone were to wish to kill it, I 
would suggest---even insist---that there is not a lot more to be said 
about the issue of abortion in our society. It is wrong, and it 
cannot---must not---be tolerated.

But you might protest that all of this is too easy. Why, you might 
inquire, have I not delved into the opinion of philosophers and 
theologians about the matter? And even worse: Why have I not raised the 
usual questions about what a "human being" is, what a "person" is, what 
it means to be "living," and such? People who write books and articles 
about abortion always concern themselves with these kinds of things. 
Even the justices of the Supreme Court who gave us "Roe v. Wade" address 
them. Why do I neglect philosophers and theologians? Why do I not get 
into defining "human being," defining "person," defining "living," and 
the rest? Because, I respond, I am sound of mind and endowed with a fine 
set of eyes, into which I do not believe it is well to cast sand. I 
looked at the photograph, and I have no doubt about what I saw and what 
are the duties of a civilized society if what I saw is in danger of 
being killed by someone who wishes to kill it or, if you prefer, someone 
who "chooses" to kill it. In brief: I looked, and I know what I saw.

But what about the being that has been in its mother for only 15 weeks 
or only 10? Have you photographs of that too? Yes, I do. However, I 
hardly think it necessary to show them. For if we agree that the being 
in the photograph printed on this page is an innocent human being, you 
have no choice but to admit that it may not be legitimately killed even 
before 20 weeks unless you can indicate with scientific proof the point 
in the development of the being before which it was other than an 
innocent human being and, therefore, available to be legitimately 
killed. Nor have Aristotle, Aquinas or even the most brilliant 
embryologists of our era or any other era been able to do so. If there 
is a time when something less than a human being in a mother morphs into 
a human being, it is not a time that anyone has ever been able to 
identify, though many have made guesses. However, guesses are of no 
help. A man with a shotgun who decides to shoot a being that he believes 
may be a human being is properly hauled before a judge. And hopefully, 
the judge in question knows what a "human being" is and what the 
implications of someone's wishing to kill it are. The word 
"incarceration" comes to mind.

However, we must not stop here. The matter becomes even clearer and 
simpler if you obtain from the National Geographic Society two 
extraordinary DVDs. One is entitled "In the Womb" and illustrates in 
color and in motion the development of one innocent human being within 
its mother. The other is entitled "In the Womb---Multiples" and in color 
and motion shows the development of two innocent human beings---twin 
boys---within their mother. If you have ever allowed yourself to wonder, 
for example, what "living" means, these two DVDs will be a great help. 
The one innocent human being squirms about, waves its arms, sucks its 
thumb, smiles broadly and even yawns; and the two innocent human beings 
do all of that and more: They fight each other. One gives his brother a 
kick, and the other responds with a sock to the jaw. If you can convince 
yourself that these beings are something other than living and innocent 
human beings, something, for example, such as "mere clusters of 
tissues," you have a problem far more basic than merely not appreciating 
the wrongness of abortion. And that problem is---forgive 
me---self-deceit in a most extreme form.

Adolf Hitler convinced himself and his subjects that Jews and 
homosexuals were other than human beings. Joseph Stalin did the same as 
regards Cossacks and Russian aristocrats. And this despite the fact that 
Hitler and his subjects had seen both Jews and homosexuals with their 
own eyes, and Stalin and his subjects had seen both Cossacks and Russian 
aristocrats with theirs. Happily, there are few today who would hesitate 
to condemn in the roundest terms the self-deceit of Hitler, Stalin or 
even their subjects to the extent that the subjects could have done 
something to end the madness and protect living, innocent human beings.

It is high time to stop pretending that we do not know what this nation 
of ours is allowing---and approving---with the killing each year of more 
than 1,600,000 innocent human beings within their mothers. We know full 
well that to kill what is clearly seen to be an innocent human being or 
what cannot be proved to be other than an innocent human being is as 
wrong as wrong gets. Nor can we honorably cover our shame (1) by 
appealing to the thoughts of Aristotle or Aquinas on the subject, 
inasmuch as we are all well aware that their understanding of matters 
embryological was hopelessly mistaken, (2) by suggesting that "killing" 
and "choosing to kill" are somehow distinct ethically, morally or 
criminally, (3) by feigning ignorance of the meaning of "human being," 
"person," "living," and such, (4) by maintaining that among the acts 
covered by the right to privacy is the act of killing an innocent human 
being, and (5) by claiming that the being within the mother is "part" of 
the mother, so as to sustain the oft-repeated slogan that a mother may 
kill or authorize the killing of the being within her "because she is 
free to do as she wishes with her own body."

One day, please God, when the stranglehold on public opinion in the 
United States has been released by the extremists for whom abortion is 
the center of their political and moral life, our nation will, in my 
judgment, look back on what we have been doing to innocent human beings 
within their mothers as a crime no less heinous than what was approved 
by the Supreme Court in the "Dred Scott Case" in the 19th century, and 
no less heinous than what was perpetrated by Hitler and Stalin in the 
20th. There is nothing at all complicated about the utter wrongness of 
abortion, and making it all seem complicated mitigates that wrongness 
not at all. On the contrary, it intensifies it.

Do me a favor. Look at the photograph again. Look and decide with 
honesty and decency what the Lord expects of you and me as the horror of 
"legalized" abortion continues to erode the honor of our nation. Look, 
and do not absolve yourself if you refuse to act.

Edward Cardinal Egan
Archbishop of New York


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