Sanctity of Human Life Act Worth Supporting
- Nov 6, 2007 - 3
Advocates of a so-called “woman’s right to choose” are waging an intense battle to slip life-taking measures through Congress. But some champions for life are pushing back, not merely by opposing bad bills, but by supporting life-affirming measures.
In fact, one of Congress’ newest members has vowed that the first bill he will introduce underscores the sanctity of human life. Newly-elected Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) will soon introduce the Sanctity of Human Life Act, which defines human life as beginning at fertilization and would also protect life created by human cloning, if the deplorable practice ever becomes a reality.
In July, Rep. Broun filled the seat of Rep. Charles Norwood, who died earlier this year.
Rep. Broun, a medical doctor and Southern Baptist, believes it is his duty to take every possible step to contend for those who have no voice—the preborn. In a letter appealing to House colleagues to cosponsor the bill, Rep. Broun wrote, “We have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect and defend every precious soul that comes into existence.”
His legislation follows closely the poignant truths set forth in the Declaration of Independence, which acknowledges that God—not man—affords “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” to each person.
The bill declares, in part, that “the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human being, and is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person.” Further, it provides protection for life created through non-traditional means, stating that “the life of each human being begins with fertilization, cloning, or its functional equivalent . . . at which time every human being shall have the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood.”
As the abortion debate has aged, so have the terms that define life. Consequently, Rep. Broun intentionally chose the word “fertilization” as opposed to “conception” to prevent opponents from excluding some humans as fully deserving of life. The pro-life community has long believed that life begins at conception—the union of sperm and ovum. Those who support a right to abortion, however, have shifted terminology, defining conception as the implantation of a fertilized ovum in the mother’s uterine wall. This allows them to argue that embryos killed after fertilization but before implantation—often the result of emergency contraception such as Plan B and RU-486—are not abortions.
Rep. Broun’s bill is also important because it extends protections for cloned individuals. While researchers and doctors have not yet cloned a human, many pro-lifers fear that research could one day become reality. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL), hoping to avert this “brave new world” from occurring, have addressed the subject proactively by sponsoring the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2007 (S. 1036/H.R. 2564). The legislation was introduced in this Congress and the previous Congress, but the bill has not yet been considered. Some cloning advocates have misled the general public into thinking that they are against the practice of cloning, when in fact they support human cloning for therapeutic purposes, which requires the destruction of human embryos.
Rep. Broun, Sen. Brownback and Rep. Weldon are among those congressmen and senators who should be commended for upholding human life, even as their counterparts make every effort to diminish the intrinsic value of each human.
If you support protections for human life in its smallest forms, please tell your congressman or congresswoman to support Rep. Broun’s life-affirming bill, the Sanctity of Human Life Act, by becoming an original cosponsor.
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3 comments (post your own) feed
1 On Apr 16th, 2008, at 9:19am, Jean Duncan wrote:
I am completely opposed to cloning of human beings.
I am for “sanctity of Life” for all humans conceivedin
the womb.
2 On Jul 23rd, 2008, at 2:19pm, connie garcia wrote:
i am truely upset to think that people don’t take the greatest gift that god can give someone as a blessing but they want to kill these childern there are people that would love them and would care for them as there own this makes me sickand it is so against god.
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