The Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life
Faithful to the “self-evident” truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we
assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental
individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to
the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s
protections apply to unborn children. We oppose using public revenues to promote or
perform abortion or fund organizations which perform or advocate it and will not fund or
subsidize health care which includes abortion coverage. We support the appointment of
judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity of innocent human life. We
oppose the non-consensual withholding or withdrawal of care or treatment, including
food and water, from people with disabilities, including newborns, as well as the elderly
and infirm, just as we oppose active and passive euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Republican leadership has led the effort to prohibit the barbaric practice of partial-birth
abortion and permitted States to extend health care coverage to children before birth. We
urge Congress to strengthen the Born Alive Infant Protection Act by enacting appropriate
civil and criminal penalties on healthcare providers who fail to provide treatment and
care to an infant who survives an abortion, including early induction delivery where the
death of the infant is intended. We call for legislation to ban sex-selective abortions –
gender discrimination in its most lethal form – and to protect from abortion unborn
children who are capable of feeling pain; and we applaud U.S. House Republicans for
leading the effort to protect the lives of pain-capable unborn children in the District of
Columbia. We call for a ban on the use of body parts from aborted fetuses for research.
We support and applaud adult stem cell research to develop lifesaving therapies, and we
oppose the killing of embryos for their stem cells. We oppose federal funding of
embryonic stem cell research.
We also salute the many States that have passed laws for informed consent, mandatory
waiting periods prior to an abortion, and health-protective clinic regulation. We seek to
protect young girls from exploitation through a parental consent requirement; and we
affirm our moral obligation to assist, rather than penalize, women challenged by an
unplanned pregnancy. We salute those who provide them with counseling and adoption
alternatives and empower them to choose life, and we take comfort in the tremendous
increase in adoptions that has followed Republican legislative initiatives.
