'Euthanasia means killing someone’: Sydney Cardinal issues blunt pro-life challenge

Article from Life Site News

George Cardinal Pell (Source: Archdiocese of Sydney website)

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/eut...pro-life-chal/


and

You Shall Not Kill
http://www.sydneycatholic.org/news/l...610_1278.shtml


Also sign the
Australian Christian Lobby's petition
Care Not Killing
regarding Senator Brown's Territory rights (Voluntary Euthanasia) Bill
http://www.makeastand.org.au/campaig...campaign_id=37

Australian Bishops Statement on abortion as ALP policy

The following is statement is taken from the book Australian Catholic Bishops' Statements since Vatican II St. Paul Publications 1985

Adoption of abortion as official ALP policy.

July 24, 1984
The Australian Bishops are greatly disappointed by the ALP National Conference decision on abortion.
Archbishop Francis Rush, president of the Australian Bishops' conference, says this in a letter to the prime minister, Mr. Hawke.
Archbishop Rush says the Catholic Church insists that human life is to be respected from the very beginning.
Here is the text of the letter released by the conference Secretariat:

The a prime minister,
He used a great disappointment to the Catholic Bishops Australia that he Australian Labor Party has made off by shall party policy to support " the particular rights of women to choice of fertility control and abortion."
We even question the logic of making abortion by choice party policy at the same time as insisting that it is a question which each member will decide according to conscience.
Whether intended or not, it constitutes pressure on the conscience of members who disagree.
We believe that the supporters of a right to abortion make themselves part of a strange "Establishment" which, in the name of a right to choose, flies in the face of proven scientific facts and denies the right of the most defenceless human beings.
There is no need to tell you where the catholic church stands on abortion. We insist, as we have always done, that human life is to be respected from the the very beginning.
The burden of proof is on people who assert that the embryo is not human. Until they micro their case they have no right to run the risk of killing a human being.
Four years ago the Australian catholic Bishops wrote:
" There is no human being so defenceless as an unborn child.
Yet there is none at greater risk in Australia today.
Statistically, the most dangerous place forum of Australian in 1980 is a mother's womb."
What was true in 1980 is more obviously true in 1984.
Yours sincerely,
Francis Rush
Archbishop of Brisbane
President of the Australian Episcopal Conference.

Labor/Green Pro-Abortion Policies

Source: ALP Party Website

Australian Labor Party Policy on Abortion

National Platform and Constitution 2009

Chapter 6: Preparing Australia for the health needs of the future

Sexual and Reproductive Health

44 To improve reproductive health for men and women, Labor will:

• Support the rights of women to determine their own reproductive lives, particularly the right to choose appropriate fertility control and abortion and ensure that these choices are on the basis of sound social and medical advice.

To view full document click on this link.

http://www.alp.org.au/getattachment/.../our-platform/

Source: Australian Greens Website

“The Greens in Victorian Parliament have indicated that they will vote in favour of decriminalising abortion…”

http://vic.greens.org.au/front-page-...on-of-abortion

The Greens have also brought in bills attempting to legalise Euthanasia (Dying with Dignity Bill 2009 in Tas.) and also to legalise Same-Sex Marriage(Marriage Equality Amendment Bill 2009 and 2010 in the federal Senate) and (Same-Sex Marriage Bill 2008 in Tas)


Other Parties not to be voted for are Socialist Alliance (Strongly support Abortion), the Democrats(support Abortion and want universal laws across all states that legalise voluntary euthanasia) and some Liberal Party Candidates.

Early Church Fathers

St. Polycarp (69-155 AD)
Source: Catholic.org

An excellent web page:
A reference to the writings of the early Church Fathers
http://www.thecatholictreasurechest.com/ref.htm

Documents available from New Advent
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/

and Early Church Fathers
http://biblestudy.churches.net/CCEL/FATHERS2/INDEX.HTM