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Pillar I

Life

The dignity of every human person — from conception to natural death — is the first human right and the animating principle of authentic civic life. Where the fundamental right to life and the inviolable worth of the person is denied, no other right can long endure.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:27

A society which fails to defend life at its most vulnerable moments cannot honestly claim to defend it anywhere. The Foundation labors for a culture that welcomes every person as gift, that accompanies the suffering, and that refuses to measure the human being by utility or by power.

What This Asks of Us

To honor the gift of life requires more than civil law. It is founded upon the existence of the Natural Moral Law. A truly just and good society calls for communities of welcome, support for mothers, fathers and families, tender compassion for the aged, the differently abled and the dying. It welcomes a public discourse shaped by reverence rather than by force.