The sanctity of life

We pledge to protect life at its beginning by:

• Initiating and supporting a Declaration of Personhood, affirming personhood from conception until natural death to ensure the protection of constitutional rights for all innocent human beings
• Updating Pennsylvania's Abortion Control Act to reflect advances in medical technology. Since we now routinely save infants born 20 weeks after conception, abortions done after that point are really infanticides and should be immediately outlawed.
• Vigorously enforcing the Abortion Control Act's transfer agreement requirements between local hospitals and free-standing abortion clinics so no woman is unnecessarily injured by a break in treatment
• Extending "conscience clause" protections to pharmacists who can not prescribe contraceptives and/or abortifacients without violating their religious beliefs
• Requiring that women considering abortion be provided, by the physician committing the abortion, with the most up-to-date medical information on all of the risks involved in the specific procedure they are about to undergo
• Prohibiting human cloning
• Vigorously enforcing the 24 hour waiting period contained in the Abortion Control Act

We pledge to protect life at its end by:

• Initiating and supporting legislation to uphold universally accepted medical standards for defining death, as follows:




No one shall be declared dead unless the respiratory and the circulatory systems and the entire brain, have been destroyed. Such destruction shall be determined in accord with universally accepted medical standards.



• Actively opposing physician imposed death
• Establishing a hot line to report abuses against the seriously ill or injured
• Ensuring that whistle blowers are extended full legal protection