DEACON FOR LIFE: Personhood Alliance Education: Alabama, non-human rights, and beautiful endings

Friday, October 26, 2018

Personhood Alliance Education: Alabama, non-human rights, and beautiful endings

Welcome to Foundations, the bi-monthly newsletter of National Personhood Alliance Education. In this issue:

- Alabama Supreme Court unanimously upholds unborn personhood

- Efforts to advance non-human personhood increase

- The six principles of the Christian pro-life movement guide us

- A unique non-profit offers healing in pregnancy and infant loss

Personhood in Action

Alabama Supreme Court calls for reversal of Roe

Alabama Supreme Court: Unborn children are people

Last week, Personhood Alliance reported on a monumental decision of the Alabama Supreme Court, which unanimously upheld personhood in a fetal-homicide case. In the concurring opinion, Justice Tom Parker argued for the full legal personhood of unborn children and boldly called on the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe. He emphasized how broadly and consistently state laws and judicial decisions across the country protect the rights of unborn children, and he contrasted that with "the continued legal anomaly and logical fallacy that is Roe v. Wade."

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NY Judge Supports Personhood for Chimpanzees

The push for non-human personhood is escalating

What used to be a marginal, far-fetched concept has become a rapidly growing, global movement in which personhood rights are being fought—and won—for rivers, elephants, whales, chimps, and robots. In America, multiple Progressive organizations are pushing the courts to expand personhood to non-human entities. Only last week, the Vermont Law School hosted a symposium on granting personhood to elements of nature. As defenders of human rights, from the unborn to the elderly, what are we to think of all of this? Is non-human personhood a threat to our biblical worldview; a threat to the pro-life movement? Wesley J. Smith of the Discovery Institute's Center for Human Exceptionalism suggests it is.

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The Personhood Community

Video course examines the six principles of the Christian pro-life movement

To be effective in our pro-life outreach and activism, it is vitally important that we stop and think about the principles that guide us every day. What are they? How can we talk about them, and how can we, as Christians, apply them consistently? As part of our Educational Tools Initiative, National Personhood Alliance Education produced a video course to explore the six principles at the foundation of the Christian pro-life movement and offer simple, practical answers that will help us defend human life and human dignity in the 21st century.

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A beautiful way to remember

In continuing to honor Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, we'd like to introduce you to Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (NILMDTS), a non-profit organization that offers hope and healing to parents experiencing the death of a baby. Through the beauty and power of professional remembrance photography, each precious child is honored and medical personnel have a meaningful option to offer bereaved parents. NILMDTS also helps families become part of a compassionate and supportive community, alleviating the sense of isolation that often occurs in pregnancy and infant loss.