Live Action Leads Pro-Life Movement with Coalition Demanding Equal Protection for Children in the Womb

For Immediate Release
June  15, 2023                                                                            
Noah Brandt
VP, Communications
media@liveaction.org                                                                         

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Live Action Leads Pro-Life Movement with Coalition Demanding Equal Protection for Children in the Womb

Pro-Life Movement Calls for Full Protection of Human Life through the 14th Amendment and sets the ‘New North Star’

Washington, D.C. — Live Action – one of the nation’s leading human rights organizations –has released the New North Star coalition letter signed by dozens of the most influential leaders in academia, law, and the pro-life movement. 

Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, commented, 

“This letter, demanding equal protection for preborn children, which they are guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to our Constitution, will act as the New North Star of the pro-life movement. It’s been one year since Roe v. Wade was overturned. While this was an important pro-life victory, our fight to make abortion illegal and unthinkable while ensuring families have the support they need is far from over.  This document is an uncompromising and robust description of guiding principles that lawmakers can look to as they craft policies that will save children from the brutal violence of abortion. At this moment, the pro-life movement is speaking with clarity and unity: we will completely end abortion and ensure that equal justice is achieved for every human being.” 

The letter demands that every branch and level of government take steps to secure equal protection for children in the womb. Several policies protecting the unborn child are mentioned, including: 

• Acknowledging children from the earliest embryonic stage forward as legal and constitutional persons entitled to the equal protection of state and local laws through constitutional provisions and legislation, and preventing states and localities from denying such protection;

• Ensuring that fetal homicide, wrongful death, and child endangerment laws, including the federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, are vigorously enforced to protect all preborn children, so that preborn babies and their families can obtain justice against the criminals who harm them;

• Passing robust and enforcing existing prenatal child support laws from conception to ensure that all parents take responsibility for the children they create.

As the letter states, “Our North Star in the pro-life movement remains the same as ever: the end of abortion through ensuring the equal protection of the law. The pro-life movement must direct its steps according to the existing guarantee in our Constitution that secures equal protection for all.”

Signatories include: 

Lila Rose
Founder & President
Live Action

Kristan Hawkins
President
Students for Life Action/Students for Life of America

Shawn D. Carney
President & CEO
40 Days for Life

Penny Nance
President & CEO
Concerned Women for America

Jeff Bradford
President
Human Coalition

Ryan T. Anderson
President
Ethics and Public Policy Center

Robert P. George
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
Princeton University

R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
President
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Hadley Arkes
Founder & Director
James Wilson Institute

Steven H. Aden
Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel
Americans United for Life

Peter Breen
Executive Vice President & Head of Litigation
Thomas More Society

Mary Szoch
Director of the Center for Human Dignity
Family Research Council

Ramesh Ponnuru
Editor
National Review

Ryan Bomberger
Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer
Radiance Foundation

C.C. Pecknold
Professor of Theology
The Catholic University of America

Michael O. Kenney
President
Pro-Life Partners Foundation

Terrisa Bukovinac
Founder & Executive Director
Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising

Gerard Bradley
Professor of Law
University of Notre Dame

Charles Camosy
Professor of Bioethics
Creighton University School of Medicine

Andrew T. Walker
Associate Professor of Ethics
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Josh Craddock
Legal Scholar
James Wilson Institute

Lauren Muzyka
President & CEO
Sidewalk Advocates for Life

Adeline A. Allen
Associate Professor
Trinity Law School

Ron Robinson
President Emeritus
Young America’s Foundation

Patrina Palmer Mosley
Founder & Principal
PPM Consulting

Missy Martinez-Stone
President & CEO
Reprotection

Robert S. McDonald, M.D.
Surgeon
The Saint Gianna Molla Guild of Northeast Wisconsin

About Lila Rose & Live Action – Lila Rose founded and serves as president of Live Action. Live Action is a 501(c)3 human rights non-profit and the digital leader of the global pro-life movement. Live Action exists today to shift public opinion on abortion and defend the rights of the most vulnerable. With over 6 million social media followers and 1.7 billion lifetime video views, Live Action reaches up to 100 million people per month – saving lives and transforming hearts, with 43% of surveyed followers saying Live Action’s content has changed their position on abortion. Through compelling educational media, human interest storytelling, investigative reporting, and community activism, Live Action reveals the humanity of the preborn and exposes the abortion industry exploiting women and families for profit. Find out more at http://www.liveaction.org.