Sanctity of Life

All innocent human life, from conception to natural death, deserves the protection of the society where it comes into being and from which it departs in natural death.  Humans are profoundly valuable because they are made, unlike any other creature on the planet, in the image of God. 

The roots of this belief go well beyond the beginning of the United States, but they are also a root part of our founding as a nation.

As Thomas Jefferson put it clearly in our Declaration of Independence, human persons are “endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”  Life, the first right, precedes and makes possible all other rights.