In Memory of the Unborn

O Mary, may God's holy angels lead them into their heavenly home. 


Click on the link to the song I Was Gonna Be  by 18 year-old Rachel Holt.  It made me cry. 
 

Destroying Black Babies and Families with Federal Dollars

Star Parker / June 02, 2021

If there is one reason why problems associated with race in America persist, it is because we pretend to address problems caused by one sin by exchanging them with other sins.

President Joe Biden has just issued a proclamation recognizing 100 years since the race massacre that occurred in the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921.

Greenwood was a wealthy black neighborhood, a center of black business known as Black Wall Street, that was ravaged in two days of rioting by white racists. It resulted in the death of hundreds and the loss of property of thousands.

It is indeed another tragic and painful memory of race relations in our nation’s history.

The proclamation issued by Biden states, “The federal government must reckon with and acknowledge the role that it has played in stripping wealth and opportunity from black communities.”

I totally agree. What offends me is that Biden’s administration enthusiastically continues federal policies that damage black communities, while it pretends it is addressing the problems.

As a starter, let us consider that at the same time the president issued this proclamation, he sent an unprecedented $6 trillion federal budget to Congress that, for the first time ever, omits the longstanding Hyde Amendment.

The Hyde Amendment, passed in 1976 and named for its sponsor, Illinois Rep. Henry Hyde, prohibits use of federal funds to pay for abortion, except in cases of rape or incest or when the mother’s life is in danger.

Every federal budget since the Hyde Amendment was passed has included a rider with this provision—except this year’s, thanks to Biden and his party.

So, while Biden issued one proclamation recalling the tragedy of a massacre of black Americans, he now wants new federal policy that would use federal funds to subsidize another massacre.

Abortion policy in our nation amounts to nothing short of a massacre of and tragedy for black Americans, born and unborn.

According to National Right to Life, 62.5 million unborn children have been destroyed in the womb since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion on demand in 1973.

Per the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one-third of all abortions are done on black babies. Given this, we can estimate that since 1973, some 21 million black babies have been destroyed in the womb.

Despite the words in the president’s new proclamation indicting the federal government in causing damage in black communities, this is exactly what he wants now: to bring the federal government in to fund the abortion massacre.

But the damage done by abortion to black Americans goes beyond this massacre of unborn black children. It has tangible, damaging effects on the well-being of the black family.

Why, after all these years, do poverty rates persist so much higher, on average, in black communities compared with national averages?

Data shows a compelling correlation between family structure and incidence of poverty.

Per the Census Bureau’s “Income and Poverty in the United States: 2019” report and per Statista, the incidence of living under poverty is more than four times higher for black families headed by a single woman than for black families headed by a married couple. And 41% of black families are headed by a single woman.

Per data from Pew Research Center, in 1970, three years before the Roe v. Wade decision, around 10% of black adults over 25 had never been married. By 2012, this had more than tripled, to 36%.

Abortion undermines the values of the traditional family. And traditional family values provide the off-ramp from the cycle of poverty.

The persistence of problems in black communities stems from federal policies that pretend to fight the sin of racism with the sins of the destruction of life and family.
 

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It is not hyperbolic to say that abortion is not only the defining moral issue of our time, but it is the defining moral issue of all of time.  Of course, there are many injustices and brutal assaults on the dignity of the human person; I am not claiming my genocide can beat up your genocide.  But I am saying that the violence of the act, the helplessness of the victim, the corruption of the fundamental relationship of parent and child, the global support of the powerful, and the scale of lives claimed - - 56 million every year - - put us in dramatically unchartered waters.

Reference: To the Heart of the Matter by Shawn D. Carney, 2020. Cappella Books.
 

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Science Affirms Policy that Protects Human Life 

Daily Signal, September 3, 2021

Science demonstrates that human life begins at conception, and knowledge of prenatal development affirms the humanity of unborn children. Heartbeats can be detected by roughly six weeks. A baby can move in the womb around eight weeks.

The following week, all basic physiological features are present. At 10 weeks, a baby begins to form hair and fingernails. A baby may hiccup at 11 weeks. At 12 weeks, a baby can sense stimulation from outside the womb, and has the capacity to feel pain.

From the moment of conception, every person possesses inherent dignity and worth. Our humanity doesn’t depend on our age, our stage of development, or our abilities.


 

Catholic Voting and Mortal Sin: Your vote can endanger your salvation*.

“I take the position that it is clearly a sin to vote for a politician who has a clear record of supporting abortion – the killing of unborn children”.  JCV3 October 12, 2024

Pope John Paul II in "Evangelium Vitae" states "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. ... 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" (EV 62C).

"The 1917 Code of Canon Law punished abortion with excommunication.  " The excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached and thus includes those accomplices without whose help the crime would not have been committed" (Canon 1329).

The argument can be made that voting is a very remote form of cooperation in abortion. But is it all that remote? The legislator who votes for abortion is clearly a formal accomplice, giving formal cooperation with abortion. S/he shares both in the intention of the act, and in supplying material support for the act. If I vote for such a candidate, knowing full well that he will help make available public monies for abortion, or continue its decriminalization, then I am aiding him/her.

Father Matthew Habinger, HLI closes with:

"That is what Catholics are called to: to be unconditionally pro-life. There is no ambiguity in the words of Peter's successor (JPII). To be Catholic is to be unconditionally pro-life. To support abortion, to advocate the right to choose an abortion can in no way be considered a catholic option. ..."

Unfortunately, almost all the organizations that claim to be “pro-life” allow many “CONDITIONS” and thus are, in reality, less than ½ “pro-life”!  Please recognize the typical CONDITIONS/EXCEPTIONS that are included in the common anti-abortion strategies that willingly sacrifice the youngest babies to protect their older brothers and sisters dependent on: age1, father2, health3, heartbeat4, mother5 or method6! 

This allowing “conditions for abortion support” is doing evil to achieve some good (protecting some babies), but violates the most basic ethics principle and can not be supported by the Creator God, or any Christian!

  Less than 15 weeks, or some other arbitrary age that  denies the single cell origin of every human beginning.
2 Rapist, brother, uncle, dad. 
 3 Handicapped, defect, health issue. 
 4 Obviously alive by size and movement, but not yet a detectable heartbeat.
5 Inconvenient, failed birth control, lacking father or parent support.
6 Dismemberment, medical care denied if born alive.

* Book by John Gerard Lewis, available on Amazon, 2nd Edition.





Background info for John Clark Vaughan, 111

Submitted 6Oct24 to Charles Crone for Capital Club, Williamsburg, VA

Graduated 1959 Virginia Tech, B.S. Mechanical Engineering.

20-year USAF career with assignments to: 

1. Dover AFB, Flightline Maintenance Officer, including 9-month Operation New Tape in Leopoldville, Congo.
2. Graduated AFIT, M.S. Astronautics
3. AF Rocket Propulsion Lab, including Advanced Plans Top Secret work with German scientists from Peenemunde. 
4. Graduated Purdue University, PhD Mechanical Engineering. Research funded by US Army Ballistic Missile Defense Agency. 
5. AF Flight Dynamics Laboratory, including work with launch and recovery of remotely piloted vehicles.
6. NASA Langley, Aeronautical Systems Division, including work on Cargo Logistics Airlift Systems.

After USAF spent several years consulting for NASA and for Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), U.S. Congress.

Until my wife developed cancer and passed 2 years ago, I helped her build an  international business in 8 countries.

Presently enjoy my large family, golf, friends, and my second home on the ocean in Kill Devil Hills, NC

Gloria Patri – my favorite prayer.

It is a short prayer: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. 

It is a very old Christian prayer. It’s acceptance traces back to the year 325, when the Roman Emperor Constantine 1 convened the Council of Nicaea in the city that is now Iznik, Turkey.

Constantine lived from 272 to 337 and ruled the Roman Empire from 306 to 337. He believed he was victorious in 312 when he had a vision that led him to have his soldiers paint their shields before battle with chi-rho, the first two letters of Christ in Greek.

In year 330, Constantine founded the city of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) and made it the new capital of the Roman Empire – where it prevailed for more than 1,000 years. He was the first roman emperor to convert to Christianity. 

When I say the prayer every morning I reflect on the Trinity and then on the three periods of time:

1. In the beginning. Our observable universe is 13.8 billion years old. The prominent theory is that nothing existed before that. There is no before, because both time and space likely began with the Big Bang itself. Trinity was there.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
2. Is now. It is essentially impossible for us to imagine the size of where we are. 

How many stars are there?  Astronomers believe that the world has around two trillion galaxies like our Milky Way galaxy, and our own Milky Way has 100 billion to 400 billion stars! So, total number of stars in our observable universe is roughly estimated to be 1 sextillion stars (that’s 1 followed by 21 zeroes).                                                                                                                                                                 How many grains of sand make up our earth’s beaches and deserts? Easier to calculate than the number of stars: around 7.5 quintillion grains (7.5 followed by only 18 zeroes). So, if you can pick up just one grain of sand, realize that there are about a thousand stars for every grain of sand on earth.   

Feel small? Better to simply realize that you are surrounded by a world of unimaginable vastness.

1. Ever shall be. Some think of an eternity where the soul continues after the body. We will never know. This is beyond human comprehension. World without end. Trinity forever.

With this in mind, it seems fitting that I say my daily prayers