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Human life is Sacrosanct and should not be violated by
another person. let us show our gratitude to God for the
life He has given us and stop the wicked act of aborting
innocent lives of babies in the womb. The earlier it is
stopped better for us and we avoid the wrath of God.

Human Life
o Government’s responsibility for the political community
begins with the protection of a) the lives of its citizens
and b) the life-generating, life-sustaining institutions of
marriage and family.
o The generation of new human life belongs, by the
Creator's design, to married couples, who bear primary
responsibility for the care and upbringing of their
children.

o When pregnancy and childbirth occur outside of
marriage or at a time of marital or family crisis,
difficulties arise that typically call for the assumption of
extraordinary responsibilities by extended family
members, supportive friends and neighbors, churches,
social service organizations, and/or public authorities.
All such assistance should aim to support and nurture
life, marriage, and the family, rather than to encourage
abortion.

o Abortion entails the taking of human life and is a violation of
the life-generating process. Therefore, abortion should not
be allowed under public law as an ordinary or standard
means of family planning, or for the social and psychological
convenience of those responsible for a pregnancy.
o As a life-ending act, abortion should never be legalized as
a freedom right of those responsible for a pregnancy.
Government bears responsibility for decisions that involve
the taking of life. Consequently, abortion should require
public-legal authorization, and then only under
circumstances of unusual danger to the pregnant woman.

• Public-legal recognition of abortion as a “privacy right”
is a violation of the norm of justice that holds
government responsible, as a public matter, for the
protection of life and for the authorization of decisions
that take life. To the extent that this so-called privacy
right is now established in law by the constitutional
interpretation of the U.S. Supreme Court, it should be
reversed.

• Opposing abortion and trying to outlaw it are not sufficient
ways to achieve the goal of protecting the unborn and
supporting life. Protecting life and the life-generating
process from before pregnancy (healthy marriage) through
birth and human maturation must be the underlying aim of
public policies.
• “Crisis pregnancies” should, in almost all instances, not be
the cause for considering public-legal efforts to violate or
interrupt the life-generating process. Rather, such critical
circumstances should be the reason to undertake public
efforts to protect and strengthen marriage, discourage
extramarital pregnancy, protect the unborn, and undergird
families in the care of children.

Guildelines for Government and
Citizenship c/o
http://www.cpjustice.org/content/human-life

Created in the image of God, humans bear ultimate
responsibility to their Creator. No human authority can
stand in the position of God or otherwise establish the
terms of human responsibility to God. For this reason,
the constitution, or basic law, of a political community
should recognize and protect the religious freedom of
citizens.

Religious freedom entails not only freedom of conscience
and worship; it also includes the right of citizens to
conduct themselves in public life without legal or
financial discrimination due to their religion. Public
justice thus requires equal treatment of citizens in both
the public and private practice of religion.

Artificial Contraceptives
• It refers to birth control which means the voluntary limitation
or control of the number of children conceived, especially by
planned use of contraceptive techniques.
• A regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications
followed in order to deliberately prevent or reduce the
likelihood of a woman becoming pregnant or giving birth.
• It simply refers to methods or devices used to
prevent pregnancy.

• Effective birth control methods include barriers such
as condoms, diaphragms, and thecontraceptive
sponge; hormonal contraception including oral
pills, patches, vaginal rings, andinjectable
contraceptives; and intrauterine devices (IUDs).

Methods
• A CONDOM:
A condom is a device made of fine rubber (latex).
The man covers his penis with a condom during sexual
intercourse in order to prevent the sperm from entering
the vagina. Condoms prevent unwanted pregnancies
and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including
AIDS. The use of condoms is one of the most reliable
and cost-effective methods.

o INTRA UTERINE DEVICE (IUD)/COPPER T:
It is a birth control device made of soft plastic and
has the shape of the English letter T. Copper is wound
on the lower part and the end carries two threads. It is
placed in the uterus. With the help of the threads placed
on the tip of the T, women can check if it is inserted
properly. It is a long-term method and prevents
pregnancy for 3-5 years. Copper T does not create any
problems during copulation and can be used
immediately after childbirth. But unlike condoms, it does
not protect the user from AIDS and other STDs.

• CONTRACEPTIVE PILLS:
There are several contraceptive pills available in the
market, for example Mala D, Mala N, Pearl, etc. Birth
control pills, which contain hormones, prevent a woman
from getting pregnant if used regularly. One pill has to
be taken every night before going to bed. There are two
types of packets available in the market,one containing
21 pills and the other containing 28 pills. But no pills
should be taken without a doctor's prescription.
Contraceptive pills also help women to have regular
menstrual cycles and reduce the chances of anaemia.
But breast-feeding mothers, especially if the child is less
than six months old, should not use contraceptive pills.

• INJECTION FOR BIRTH CONTROL:
Vaccination is another method of birth control.
This vaccine is effective for three months and has to be
applied four times a year. It is available in the name of
DMPA and works in the same way as the pills do. It
reduces bleeding during menstruation and helps in
preventing cancer.

• PERMANENT SOLUTIONS:
Permanent solutions are the best possible methods if
the couple does not want any more children. They are
available for both men and women. But male sterilization
or vasectomy is easier than female operation or
tubectomy. In vasectomy, the duct carrying sperm from
the testes to the urethra is cut and tied thereafter no
sperms reach the urethra during intercourse. The male
can start working normally 48 hours after the
operation. It also does not adversely affect erection in
the man.

Tubectomy is done by tying and cutting off the fallopian
tubes. Eggs continue to be released but they are
prevented from reaching the uterus. Nowadays it is
conducted through telescopic method, which requires
only 2-3 stitches.

Abortion
• from the Latin word aboriri, "to perish"
• may be briefly defined as "the loss of a fetal life."
• abortion is also applied, though less properly, to cases
in which the child is become viable, but does not survive
the delivery.
• Abortion is one of the most common medical
procedures performed in the United States each year.
More than 40% of all womenabortion at some time in
their reproductive lives.

• The Catholic Church opposes all purpose of the
abortion procedure. “Human life is sacred because from
its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it
remains for ever in a special relationship with the
Creator, who is its sole end. God alone is the Lord of life
from its beginning until its end: no one can under any
circumstance claim for himself the right directly to
destroy an innocent human being”

Intentional abortions are distinguished by
medical writers into two classes.
• When they are brought about for social reasons, they are
called criminal abortions; and they are rightly condemned
under any circumstances whatsoever. "Often, very often,"
said Dr. Hodge, of the University of Pennsylvania, "must all
the eloquence and all the authority of the practitioner be
employed; often he must, as it were, grasp the conscience
of his weak and erring patient, and let her know, in
language not to be misunderstood, that she is responsible
to the Creator for the life of the being within her" (Wharton
and Stille's Med. Jurispr., Vol. on Abortion, 11).

• The name of obstetrical abortion is given by physicians
to such as is performed to save the life of the mother.
Whether this practice is ever morally lawful we shall
consider below.

Causes for abortion:
o Failure of artificial birth control
o Inability to support and care for the child
o To end unwanted pregnancies resulting from rape and
incest
o Physical and mental conditions which may endanger the
mother’s health if the pregnancy continues.

Roman Catholic Church opposes all forms of abortion
procedures whose direct purpose is to destroy an
embryo, blastocyst, zygote or fetus, since it holds that
"human life must be respected and protected absolutely
from the moment of conception. From the first moment
of his 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. It admits
certain acts which indirectly result in the death of the
fetus, as when the direct purpose is to saving the
mother from health problems which may endanger her
life.

Catholics who procure a completed abortion are subject to a
latae sententiae excommunication.That means that the
excommunication does not need to be imposed (as with a
ferendae sententiae penalty); rather, being expressly
established by law, it is incurred ipso facto when the delict is
committed (a latae sententiae penalty). Canon law states
that in certain circumstances "the accused is not bound by a
latae sententiae penalty"; among the ten circumstances
listed are commission of a delict by someone not yet sixteen
years old, or by someone who without negligence does not
know of the existence of the penalty, or by someone "who
was coerced by grave fear, even if only relatively grave, or
due to necessity or grave inconvenience".

According to a 2004 memorandum by Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger, Catholic politicians who consistently campaign
and vote for permissive abortion laws should be
informed by their priest of the Church's teaching and
warned to refrain from receiving communion or risk
being denied the Eucharist until they end that activity.

Apart from indicating in its canon law that automatic
excommunication does not apply to women who abort
because of grave fear or due to grave inconvenience,
the Catholic Church, without making any such
distinctions, assures the possibility of forgiveness for
women who have committed what it sees as the sin of
abortion.

Suicide
Meaning
o The willful taking of one’s own life and is contrary to the
innate human drive to survive and live
o Is a gravely immoral act
Causes for suicide
o Extreme depression
o Despair
o Hopelessness
o Psycho-emotional and personality disorders

These are the reasons for the causes:
o Rejection
o Social isolation
o School and family problems

In the past the Church does not allow people who commit
suicide to be given a Christian burial because the act of
taking one’s life was deemed a radical rejection of the
love of God, of self, and of others but the Catholic
Church today allows the Christian burial today
Suicide renounces one’s responsibility to others and to
society as a whole.
The Church reminds us of our obligation to help those who
may be experiencing crises in their lives.
We should not consider ourselves only as independent and
mature individuals because we still need the guidance of
friends and the loving support of our families.

Euthanasia

It is the painless killing of a patient suffering
from an incurable and painful disease or in
an irreversible coma’.

Six Types of Euthanasia

• Voluntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed has
requested to be killed.
• Non-voluntary: When the person who is killed made no
request and gave no consent.
• Involuntary euthanasia: When the person who is killed
made an expressed wish to the contrary.
• Euthanasia By Action or Active Euthanasia: Intentionally
causing a person's death by performing an action such
as by giving a lethal injection.

• Euthanasia By Omission or Passive
Euthanasia: Intentionally causing death by not providing
necessary and ordinary care or food and water.
• Assisted suicide: Someone provides an individual with
the information, guidance, and means to take his or her
own life with the intention that they will be used for this
purpose. When it is a doctor who helps another person
to kill themselves it is called "physician assisted suicide."

Anointing of the Sick
The anointing of the sick is administered to bring spiritual
and even physical strength during an illness, especially
near the time of death. It is most likely one of the last
sacraments one will receive. A sacrament is an outward
sign established by Jesus Christ to confer inward grace. In
more basic terms, it is a rite that is performed to convey
God’s grace to the recipient, through the power of the
Holy Spirit.

The sacrament is administered by a priest, who uses olive
oil or another pure plant oil to anoint the patient's
forehead and perhaps other parts of the body while
reciting certain prayers. It is believed to give comfort,
peace, courage and, if the sick person is unable to
make a confession, even forgiveness of sins.[4] Several
other Churches and Ecclesial Communities have similar
rituals (see Anointing of the Sick for a more general
discussion). The official name of the sacrament in the
Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church was Extreme
Unction (meaning, Final Anointing)

The Sacrament’s Effects
"The special grace of the sacrament of the Anointing of
the Sick has as its effects: the uniting of the sick person
to the passion of Christ, for his own good and that of
the whole Church; the strengthening, peace, and
courage to endure in a Christian manner the sufferings
of illness or old age; the forgiveness of sins, if the sick
person was not able to obtain it through the sacrament
of penance; the restoration of health, if it is conducive
to the salvation of his soul; the preparation for passing
over to eternal life" (CCC 1532).

Does a person have to be dying to receive this sacrament?
No. The Catechism says, "The anointing of the sick is not
a sacrament for those only who are at the point of
death. Hence, as soon as anyone of the faithful begins
to be in danger of death from sickness or old age, the
fitting time for him to receive this sacrament has
certainly already arrived" (CCC 1514).

The uniting of the sick person to the passion of Christ, for
his own good and that of the whole Church; the
strengthening, peace, and courage to endure in a
Christian manner the sufferings of illness or old age;
the forgiveness of sins, if the sick person was not able
to obtain it through the sacrament of penance; the
restoration of health, if it is conducive to the salvation
of his soul; the preparation for passing over to eternal
life.

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