Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Unborn

by Father Paul Marx, Founder 

Human Life International

Who would have thought that a small one room office in Washington, D.C. would, in just 15 years, develop into the world’s largest pro-life, pro-family organization, Human Life International? Or who could have imagined that in the same amount of time a people once steeped in superstition, pagan ritual, and bloody human sacrifice, experienced such an outpouring of grace that over nine million of them were baptized? The answer? “What is impossible for man, is possible for God.” He alone imagined it, and He alone accomplished it, through miraculous intervention of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The choice of Our Lady of Guadalupe as patroness of our apostolate was obvious. Of all the many manifestations of Mary’s loving presence among us throughout the centuries, in this apparition alone does she appear to us in the manner of a pregnant mother. She holds within her the unborn Christ, proclaiming the sanctity and blessedness of life within the womb. Her reverence and tenderness communicate to us the joy and awe with which we must approach each nascent life. In contemplating her simplicity we find the strength to emulate her faith, and proceed with confidence in the knowledge that God will overcome the seemingly insurmountable barriers looming all around us in the world today.

When Mary first appeared to Blessed Juan Diego in 1531, Mexico had been in the hands of Christian leaders for only a short time. Human sacrifice, where blood of infants was often spilled to appease the thirsty demons of the old rite, was still practiced surreptitiously, a gruesome continuation of the country’s long enslavement to pagan fears. Into this cavern of darkness and ignorance, our Lady of Guadalupe brought a message of maternal compassion. “I am the merciful Mother, the Mother of all of you who live united in this land, and of all mankind, of all those who love me, of those who cry to me, of those who seek me, of those who have confidence in me. Here I will hear their weeping, their sorrow, and will remedy and alleviate their suffering, necessities, and misfortunes.” No more did the people need to cower in abject terror before the bloodthirsty gods who demanded the death of their children. They found refuge beneath the gracious protection of a gentle Mother.


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Human Life International’s mission is to defend the God-given right to life and dignity of all human persons from conception until natural death.

HLI is a Catholic apostolate seeking to respond to our calling as followers of Jesus Christ by building a Culture of Life and of Love around the world through education, outreach, advocacy, and service.

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Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe 

 

Editor's Note:  Today is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  Please pray for her intersession for an end to abortion in our land and throughout the world.  

HLI in the News: Comments on President Obama’s Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast

In a speech during the National Prayer Breakfast on February 6, President Obama made statements on freedom of religion and the right to life at odds with the policies of his administration. Human Life International Communications Manager Adam Cassandra was asked by the news media to comment on the president’s statements.


“It’s also clear that around the world, freedom of religion is under threat … No society can truly succeed unless it guarantees the rights of all its people, including religious minorities,” the president said.

When asked by The Daily Caller for comment, Mr. Cassandra said:

The president is right, freedom of religion is under threat, not only in the United States but increasingly around the world. Unfortunately, the actions of the Obama administration, especially in terms of the HHS mandate dealing with contraception and abortifacient drugs, its policy on abortion, and the administration’s support for redefining marriage, have greatly contributed to the persecution of Christians, especially Catholics. The rights of religious minorities deserve protection, but the mainstream moral values of Christianity also need protection, especially from this administration, and should not be labeled as ‘intolerant,’ which only incites hatred and violence towards Christians.

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Protesters Call for One-Child Policy and Population Control During Demonstration on National Mall

By Adam Cassandra

 

 

During a Sierra Club sponsored protest against the Keystone XL pipeline on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., last Sunday, several of the protesters expressed support for population control measures including the implementation of a global one-child policy similar to China’s brutal and draconian policy.

“I do believe that our Earth is overpopulated,” one of the protesters said in a video released this week by Americans for Limited Government. When asked if it’s time for a one-child policy, the man replied, “I’m all for that. One child, maybe two child max.”

China’s one-child policy was introduced in 1979 as a population control measure. The Chinese government utilizes coercive measures including forced abortions and forced sterilizations to enforce the policy. The one-child policy is the impetus behind numerous human rights violations and violent attacks by government officials on their own people each year.

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Infanticide: The Abortion-Euthanasia Connection

Infanticide:  The Abortion-Euthanasia Connection.

       "Speaking at a recent conference of the Hemlock Society — an organization whose primary purpose is the legalization of death by choice — Dr. Joseph Fletcher, the 'father of situation ethics,' reminisced about the days when both he and Margaret Sanger joined the Euthanasia Society of America, 'thus linking the two [abortion and euthanasia] causes so to speak — the right to be selective about parenthood and the right to be selective about living.' Fletcher explained, 'We've added death control to birth control as a part of the ethos of life style in our society.'"[167]

Introduction. Is there really any doubt any more? Is there the faintest shadow of uncertainty that abortion is now leading to euthanasia as the day leads to the night?
       If there is, there certainly shouldn't be!
       As Derek Humphry, America's leading euthanasiast, has said, "The doors began to open for me and my ideas once a wonderful thing happened — Roe v. Wade."[168]
       Our own court system is revealing that we are killing born people on exactly the same premises that we have been killing preborn people for so long. B.D. Cohen, medical writer for Newsday Magazine, says that "The decision to withhold or withdraw treatment from extremely sick, premature, and/or deformed newborns is probably being made at least once every day by anguished parents and doctors in one of the nation's more than 500 intensive care nurseries."[169]
       There are three critical characteristics that tie abortion and euthanasia together so intimately that they really can never be separated.
       These features are;

(1) The identical utilitarian worldview of the perpetrators;

(2) The identical tactics used by both the pro-abortion and pro-euthanasia movements, as shown elsewhere in this Chapter; and

(3) The intimate relationship of the "bridge" issue — infanticide — to both abortion and euthanasia.

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