The War against the Unborn
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, December 3, 2010
John Smeaton has a story to tell us. Ref. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) by Patrick B. Craine - UK Pro-Life Leader: “This is World War III.” http:///.lifesitenews.com/Idn/printerfriendly.htlml?articleid=10110309
There is an all-out attack against the family being waged by the worldly powers in Europe, North America, and throughout the world, said John Smeaton, national director of the U.K.’s “Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), at the International Pro-Life Conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada… “It’s primarily a war on the unborn and on parents as the primary educators of their children. Sadly, the situation is made even worse by church leaders who have imbibed the spirit of the age, he added. (Find more coverage of Smeaton’s comments on Church leaders.)
As vice president of the International Right to Life Federation, Smeaton is national director of SPUC, founded in 1966 as the world’s first pro-life organization, since 1996. The group boasts 130 branches, 30,000 members and 30 full-time staff.
Countries such as Britain, Spain and Portugal are promoting abortion and contraception in the classroom without parental consent, he said in clear opposition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR, adopted in 1948 in the wake of the great atrocities of World War II, insisted on the primacy of parents as the educators of their child, he noted, because of the Nazi’s use of the education system to indoctrinate children.
He also enlightened the hundreds gathered in Ottawa on the how the United Nations and governments in Europe and North America are campaigning against pro-life laws around the world, and attacking the right of doctors to refuse participation or referrals for abortion...
Smeaton said the pro-life movement must engage in “great campaigns” to promote conscientious objection and must make it very clear that abortion, euthanasia, IVF and human embryo research “are not examples of medical care.”… We are not imposing religious beliefs but expressing humanity’s consensus on the right to life… Smeaton described the awful campaign being waged in Ireland to topple the country’s historic and constitutional protection for the unborn…
He quoted Cardinal-designate Raymond Burke, head of the Vatican’s highest court … attack on life is based on an “erroneous” view of human sexuality that robs the conjugal act of its procreative nature. “The artificial separation of the unitive and procreative elements of sexual intercourse is not only the basis of contraception, it also the basis of early abortion and in vitro fertilization. It underpins today’s culture of death. .. Also Catholics widespread use of contraception “is draining the pro-life movement of the support of the community most likely to support the battle against abortion…
George H. Kubeck, The prayer vigil for the unborn is a good reason to open the Catholic Liturgical Year.