Showing posts with label Guillermo Arza. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guillermo Arza. Show all posts

Thursday, August 15, 2013

El Papa llama a defender la vida

Francisco reiteró ayer en un documento la necesidad de “defender siempre la vida humana, desde la concepción en el seno materno, “frente a la cultura del descarte que la relativiza, reconociéndola como un don de Dios y garantía del futuro de la humanidad”. Pero en el mensaje a la Semana de la Familia en Brasil, el Papa argentino no hizo una mención específica al aborto.

En su mensaje a las familias brasileñas, Jorge Bergoglio alienta a los padres “en la noble y exigente misión de ser los primeros colaboradores de Dios en la orientación fundamental de la existencia y en la garantía de un buen futuro”.

A los hijos, “los progenitores son llamados a transmitir con las palabras y, sobre todo con las obras, las verdades fundamentales sobre la vida y el amor humano, que reciben de la Revelación de Dios


¿Cómo es posible que el hombre mate al ser más inocente del mundo?

El Cardenal Eduardo Martínez Somalo ha aprovechado este miércoles la recepción al presidente del Gobierno riojano, Pedro Sanz, en su domicilio de Baños de Río Tobía en La Rioja (España) para mostrar su desacuerdo con el aborto.

 

Ha señalado que "no hay mandamiento de la ley de Dios que vaya contra la dignidad del hombre, al contrario, los mandamientos son una base, un cimiento y una garantía de la dignidad del hombre, de las familias y de la convivencia humana"

 

"¿Cómo es posible que el hombre tenga el valor de matar al ser más inocente del mundo en la cuna más maravillosa como es el seno de una madre?", ha cuestionado el Cardenal Martínez Somalo.

Saturday, July 27, 2013

El Salvador

Un juzgado salvadoreño ha condenado a 30 años de cárcel a G.R.G.A. por presuntamente haber interrumpido su embarazo. La mujer, de 31 años, fue condenada por «homicidio agravado», debido que ya tenía «nueve meses» de gestación, ha precisado un portavoz de los juzgados de El Salvador.

El portavoz explicó que inicialmente la mujer fue detenida y acusada de «aborto consentido», pero en el transcurso del proceso la tipificación cambió. La mujer fue denunciada por los médicos del estatal hospital Santa Teresa de Zacatecoluca, añadió la misma fuente.

Prohibición:

Entre los años 2000 y 2011 unas «129 mujeres» han sido «denunciadas y procesadas por aborto y por homicidio vinculado a aborto», de las cuales «se encuentran en la cárcel 22», dijo recientemente el abogado Denis Muñoz, integrante de la Agrupación Ciudadana. El Salvador es uno de los cinco países de Latinoamérica, junto a Nicaragua, Honduras, República Dominicana y Chile, que prohíben el aborto de manera absoluta


Friday, July 26, 2013

Gosnell case

In 2011, Kermit Barron Gosnell, alongside various co-defendant employees, was charged with eight counts of murder resulting in part from gross medical malpractice in treatment of patients at his clinics, as well as several lesser offenses. The murder charges related to a patient who died while under his care and seven newborns said to have been killed after being born alive during attempted abortions.

"Among the relatively few cases that could be specifically documented, one was Baby Boy A. His 17-year-old mother was almost 30 weeks pregnant – seven and a half months – when labor was induced. An employee estimated his birth weight as approaching six pounds. He was breathing and moving when Dr. Gosnell severed his spine and put the body in a plastic shoebox for disposal."

As was his wont, Dr. Kermit B. Gosnell would try to lighten the mood with a bit joking.  Boy A was, he said, "big enough to walk around with me or walk me to the bus stop."

Dr. Gosnell was the operator of an abortion mill – this was no clinic – located in West Philadelphia called the "Women's Medical Society" and set up in 1972. He was a product of the local neighborhood, and he had spent almost four decades running his establishment – "giving back" to the community he grew up in.

Of course, he had a peculiar form of charity: "Infant beheadings. Severed baby feet in jars. A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure."  Gosnell's mill was known for its willingness to carry out late-term abortions – the illegal practice (in Pennsylvania) of killing a child after the initial 24 weeks of pregnancy.

In May 2013, he was convicted on three of the murder charges and chose to waive his right of appeal in exchange for an agreement not to seek the death penalty. 



Friday, July 12, 2013

Things have changed

The other day outside a Planned Parenthood facility a woman started yelling at her daughter (who just found out she was pregnant) and almost beating her up.

We all stayed there watching the show in silence, without saying a word. But we were all terrified, feeling sorry for that girl.

This makes me think how different things were when our parents where young. 50 years ago if you found out you were pregnant with 17 they would probably made you marry your boyfriend and you would not get a divorce but probably spend your life with that boy who from that moment on would be your husband. Nowadays, if a girls finds out she is pregnant with 17 she doesn't even tell her parents, she would just probably get the abortion as it is legal to do it without parental permission.

I am not saying that making the girl marry that guy who is maybe not her boyfriend but just somebody she just slept with one night, but the sad part is that she doesn't feel like telling her mother because like that girl of the other day, she is afraid that she may be hit by her and so she goes and has an abortion alone, without consulting a friend, her mother or someone who loves her and could truly say something that would help her.

And that is why I am so thankful for being here and have this opportunity of speaking with those women and make them realize that they are not alone and that they have alternatives.

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Subway

As you may notice, even if the main purpose of these two months is helping women, we are still young, and we are still tourists in a foreign land so unavoidably, one of the things we have been doing a lot since we came to the States is compare lifestyles.

Our principal object of study is the subway, we have this classification of each city we have visited. Last weekend we went to Washington DC, and our first impression was than its subway was pretty neat, cool, new and kind of stylish. In other words we were astonished.

On the other hand the one in The City is different: older and dirtier, the AC drives you crazy inside whereas, if you need to wait four your train you would melt like an ice-cream.

And surprisingly we discovered that the subway, the underground, the metro, the tube or the way you call it; is like the abortion: in some cities is really accepted by the people and they see it as not such a bad thing, but quick and efficient to get rid of your "problem" while in other places is almost clandestine, dark and terrible. Places where people don't accept it but unfortunately it keeps occurring.

Anyways, I hope this would comes to an end (abortion not subway development) and that what we are doing here becomes part of something bigger.



Friday, July 5, 2013

Guillermo


Hi! I'm Guillermo Arza, from Pamplona, Spain. I arrived on the States past friday after a long journey. I study architecture at the University of Navarra and i have just one year left for finishing my degree. I've been several times in NYC and other parts of the Stases as part of my family lives in here. I'm the second of five brothers, and got here due to a friend that told me about this volunteer internship at EMC.

I found really interesting and motivating the fact of spending a summer trying to help people, and in this case, trying to make bigger an organization which makes such a great thing in NYC. I truly believe in life from the very first moment of conception and hope to share this idea with as much people as i can.

I'm actually in Philly with four more interns, collaborating with Alpha Pregnancy Center and I will do my best trying to help as much as possible to those who need it!