COLUMBUS RIGHT TO LIFE SOCIETY'S PROCLAMATION
AGAINST VIOLENCEWHEREAS,
we live in a society where violence, including the
violence of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia,
is often portrayed, or used, as the solution to our
personal or public problems; and
WHEREAS, we are frequently faced with people, in all
walks of life, who act out this violence in schools
and other public venues; and
WHEREAS, there have been a number of acts of
violence perpetrated against abortion industry
personnel and facilities; and
WHEREAS, all legitimate pro-life organizations,
including Columbus Right to Life, are committed to
the peaceful, legal, social, and political reform of
our culture to affirm and protect all human life,
and are unalterably opposed to any form of violence
against abortion personnel and facilities;
The Columbus Right to Life Society
hereby issues this Proclamation:
WE DECLARE, that the deliberate
killing of an innocent human being, from
fertilization to natural death, is always wrong.
This belief is the essence of what it means to be
pro-life and
WE DECLARE, that the pro-life
movement acknowledges that every individual human
being possesses an inherent dignity and the
inalienable right to life.
WE DECLARE, that it is the purpose
of the pro-life movement to restore full legal
protection to all human beings from fertilization to
natural death, using peaceful and prayerful means in
the pursuit of that goal.
In the furtherance of this purpose,
we call on:
· Our elected officials, at
all levels of government, to endorse and work for
the passage of a Human Life Amendment to state and
federal constitutions that would recognize basic
human rights inherent to every human being from
fertilization to natural death;
· The news media to
accurately report the total aversion to violence of
all major pro-life groups in this nation;
· The abortion industry to
stop the violence against helpless children, both
born and unborn;
· Every pro-lifer to reject
and condemn violence and those who commit violent
acts; and
· Every citizen of the United
States to reject and condemn the easy solution of
violence in any form, and to patiently labor to
build a society of equality, freedom, life, and
justice for all.
The Board of Columbus Right to
Life Society
Adopted July 1, 2002
