I am pro-life. Over the years as this debate continues, both my husband and I; in our personal and our academic lives, have written on our common position on this subject. Right now, we do not have equal protection under the law as guaranteed to us by our Constitution as long as children are being aborted.
The following is a summation of my family’s principals and my political views:
We have to respect and protect all human life: To each individual their life is sacred. As a people, to begin to pass judgment or sentence on human life by age, quality, position or potential has the effect of placing a price or a measure on what can only be deemed a gift from our creator.
However, there is a paradox of life and rights:
Our rights as a people for individual-self-government are based upon the uniqueness of human life with rights granted by 'nature's God,' which in turn are protected by our Constitution.
One must follow the other, or else the entire argument of human rights becomes based on man's opinion.
Either life with rights is given at the same time that life begins or we have no rights beyond which other men or governments are willing to allow us.
If we as a people do not respect the sacred notion of human LIFE how can we expect to have respect for RIGHTS that are dependent upon the concept of human LIFE itself?
Any society of free individuals that diminishes the value of one human life from another risks its very existence.
Lt. Katherine Jenerette - U.S. Army Paratrooper - U.S.Army(Reserve)