Today's saint, St. Lydia Purpuraria, was the first Christian convert in Europe, a businesswoman who dealt in luxury goods. She is the patron saint of cloth dyers. Saint Lydia was born during the first century in Thyatira, a town famous for its dye works in Asia Minor, famous for its dye works, (hence, her name which means purple seller). She was a seller of purple dye and was St. Paul's first convert at Philippi. The following is from the Acts of the Apostles: And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to those things which were said by Paul. And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us. ~Acts 16:14-15 She was baptized with her household. Thereafter, Paul made his home with her while in Philippi. Lydia was a woman of hospital...
I do need to clarify -- Tiller does not do "partial birth abortion". He does a digoxin injection into the baby's heart (that's the same drug used in execution by lethal injection) on Day 1, then inserts seaweed sticks to dilate the mother's cervix, keeping her in a motel room for three days attended by whatever companion she brought. Then on Day 3 or Day 4, he gives her drugs to induce labor and she gives birth to the rotting fetus in the basement toilet.
ReplyDeleteThis "Keep them in a motel room instead of a hospital" resulted in the death of a teenage girl with developmental disabilities. And the Sebilius-appointed medical board found nothing amiss with that.