Pro-Life? Sign the Manhattan Declaration

[tinybubblez]

National Religious Leaders Release Historic Declaration on Christian Conscience

Washington, D.C., Press Conference Unveils 4,700-Word Statement Signed by More Than 125 Orthodox, Catholic & Evangelical Leaders

Excerpts from the declaration include:

• "We are Christians who have joined together across historic lines of ecclesial differences to affirm our right - and, more importantly, to embrace our obligation - to speak and act in defense of these truths.  We pledge to each other, and to our fellow believers, that no power on earth, be it cultural or political, will intimidate us into silence or acquiescence."
• "We recognize the duty to comply with laws whether we happen to like them or not, unless the laws are gravely unjust or require those subject to them to do something unjust or otherwise immoral."
• ". . . We will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriage or the equivalent or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family."

the full Declaration:

http://www.demossnews.com/manhattandeclaration/press_kit/manhattan_declaration_signers

 

sign:

http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/sign-the-declaration

 

[AMBG825]

No one is being forced or compelled to participate in procedures they don't agree with or believe in. But if they're going to take government money then they have to abide by the rules and conditions that go along with that money. In other words, if you don't want to perform abortions at your clinic or hospital, don't take medicaid patients or any other government money.

Since the pro-life movement has so much money to throw around on useless petitions and advertising, they should put some of that money toward the hospitals. When they are paying the salaries of the doctors and nurses then they can control what procedures are performed.

[hsteele]

Quoting AMBG825:

No one is being forced or compelled to participate in procedures they don't agree with or believe in. But if they're going to take government money then they have to abide by the rules and conditions that go along with that money. In other words, if you don't want to perform abortions at your clinic or hospital, don't take medicaid patients or any other government money.

Since the pro-life movement has so much money to throw around on useless petitions and advertising, they should put some of that money toward the hospitals. When they are paying the salaries of the doctors and nurses then they can control what procedures are performed.

[LauraKW]

No, thank you.