Japan's Fight for the Right to Life

Submitted by LocutusOP on Sat, 08/15/2020 - 22:09
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Deacon Gerry Palermo ,  Larry_the_Liberal , Gerry ,  Deacon Gerry Palermo    

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Saturday, August 15, 2020 - 22:15
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Japan's Fight for the Right to Life

 

 
 
 
 
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    Deacon Gerry Palermo • 12 days ago

    Thank you for writing. Mostly agree and thank you for your insights. One item, I don't think aborted babies go to hell but we trust them to the mercy of God.

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    Larry_the_Liberal • 12 days ago

    According to Wikipedia, the Miyuki Ishikawa case (a serial killer midwife) was the principal reason why Japan eased restrictions on abortion. I can't find data to support the claim that the U.S. Military instituted abortion to prevent Japan from having enough people to go to war again.The Eugenic Protection Law of 1948 made Japan the 1st nation to legalize abortion, and it also allowed the government to sterilize "defective" people against their will. Some 16,000 were sterilized.

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    Gerry • 10 days ago • edited

    “And we must also preach the terrible truth that to take a child’s life is to send him to hell with all the other unbaptized. Abortion is not just taking a life, it is producing eternal misery.”

    St. Thomas dwells on this subject in the Supplement of the Summa Theologica, Questions 70 and 71 (Art.7). He explains that these souls do not suffer a sensible pain since this pain is due to actual sins and, having died before having committed any actual sin, they do not deserve that suffering. The punishment for original sin is merely the privation of the Beatific Vision. St. Thomas explains that these souls do not suffer from the privation of the Beatific Vision which is a supernatural happiness, therefore something which we have no natural right to possess, just as ‘no wise man grieves for being unable to fly like a bird.’

    Deacon Gerry Palermo Gerry • 9 days ago

    Hi Gerry! Great citation!

    It is generally understood that infants in the womb are already conscience and some freedom.
    Mary and Elizabeth and John joyful in the womb is a good example.

    Infants in the womb do not have access to baptism. It would seem being unable in the extreme to receive baptism, complicates the situation. I'm not trying to reignite the Pelagian heresy.

    Referenced: The Hope of Salvation For Infants Who Die Without Being Baptized.

    Thomas's solution (nor Augustine's solution) does not appear to be the final answer.

    Thank you for reading.

    All the best!

     

     

     

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    "If one cannot trust Wikipedia to inform us of howthe killing of the unborn has spread, then who can we trust?", one may ask entirely in satire.

    It is perfectly reasonable that the U.S. was the one which pressured Japan to introduce the killing of unborn there, legally, because nothing would be more American - in this context, American meaning U.S. government policy - than to spread death and destruction abroad. 

    It has long been the case that the merchants of death choose a specific case as the barge with which to ram through the gates, so they might well have done the same there.