Anyone reading the document will recognize that it clearly
elevates the right to life as preeminent.
The document asserts that it "does not offer a quantitative
listing of issues for equal consideration, but outlines and makes important
distinctions among moral issues acknowledging that some involve the clear
obligation to oppose intrinsic evils which can never be justified…"
The top issue on the list is the "continuing destruction of
unborn children through abortion and other threats to the lives and dignity of
others who are vulnerable, sick, or unwanted." The second item is closely
related: "renewed efforts to force Catholic ministries…to violate their
consciences or stop serving those in need…"
Our founders likewise elevated the right to life as preeminent,
placing it first in the list of unalienable rights endowed by our Creator.
We cannot trust a politician who fails to uphold this most
fundamental right to uphold our other unalienable rights. Even the right of
conscience dissolves, as the Obama administration demonstrated by gutting the
only federal regulation that protected healthcare professionals from
discrimination for declining to participate in abortion.
When voters consider politicians' views on the right to life as
primary, they do not neglect other issues such as peace and poverty; they
simply recognize that all our freedoms and values hinge on that fundamental
right.
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