The following is a statement from American Life League vice president Jim Sedlak:
“Last night the pro-life movement learned several hard lessons. Foremost among those is that it is never morally acceptable, and often it is not even politically expedient, to compromise human beings’ lives in the hopes of saving some others.
“While pro-life strategists in Washington, D.C. scrambled for a Stupak Amendment to protect a status quo that fundamentally rejects the human rights of an entire class of people, the pro-life grassroots simply wanted to ‘Kill the Bill.’
“The eventual passage of the health care bill, with its monumental support of child killing, exposed the foolishness of depending upon politicians to protect the lives of preborn babies.
“The American people need to preemptively take control again by declaring – in state after state across the nation – that a preborn human being is recognized as a person under the laws of their states.
“This state’s rights approach will build the momentum necessary to eventually pass a federal human personhood amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
“Instead of playing the Washington, D.C. political game, the pro-life movement must unite around uncompromising human rights principles that protect the dignity and recognize the personhood of all human beings.”
American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to death. For more information or press inquiries, please contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.