1. Extraction of a child from the womb before birth;
2. Denial of baptism, so debarring him or her from Heaven;
3. Torture;
4. Theft of body parts;
5. Murder of the child; [yes; the child must be alive for his tissues to be useful -- LML]
6. Disposal of the rest of the body;
7. Manipulation of body parts;
8. Marketing of body parts;
9. Desecration of the child in instances (iv), (v), (vi), (vii) and (viii);
10. Violation of the child’s rights in all instances.
In a word, we are speaking of a social and universal structure of sin: that of the treatment of man as an object to be used, abused, and disposed of at will. This structure, which is the materialistic, hedonist legacy of the ‘self-deifying atheism’ of the present age, is being built, like some defiant monster of modern architecture, on the ruins of what was once that resplendent mansion of holy matrimony, established by Christ Himself to perpetuate His love for the Church in Christian couples, for the procreation and sanctification of children.
Of this mansion there now remains little more than the sexual instinct, together with its delicate, fragile, and ever more rarely blossoming flower of human life: both increasingly channelled to inhuman, heinous abuse. It is to protect this inchoate human life and to rebuild holy matrimony to its former glory that we must stand up, strong in the Faith and in the trust in Divine Providence 16: to break the world free from the ‘money-changers of dead bodies’ 17 and from the paralysing chains of Satan.
As to #10: the child's rights are violated and those complicit are also harmed; it harms them to be part of this chain of sin.
It's a good essay -- read it all.
Thanks Leila, I went to the site and read the whole article.
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