CRTL’s 2012 Candidate Survey

bob | Posted on January 1, 2010 |

Please consider your responses to the questions below and then mail your answers back to us at 1535 Grant Street, Suite 303, 80203 or e-mail the completed form to office@ColoradoRTL.org. Both, during the primary and during the general election campaign, we will mail voter guides out to registered pro-lifers and post the results of our candidate questionnaires online at ColoradoRightToLife.org. We would like to hear from you before your constituents vote at their Caucus and the Assembly, so they will benefit from our Pro-life Voters’ Guide – this could be to your advantage, as much as to theirs!

Your opponents will also be responding, so please reply as soon as possible with your acceptance or rejection of these pro-life strategies. We hope you will agree and answer “Yes” to each of the following fundamental moral questions. Thanks!

Candidate Name: __________________________; Party: ___________

Office Sought: ____________________

1. Will you advocate that the government recognize and uphold the God-given, inalienable Right to Life for unborn children?

2. Do you agree that abortion is always wrong and should be prohibited, even when the baby’s father is a criminal (i.e. a rapist)? [See life-of-the mother note below.]

3. A WorldNetDaily headline says: ‘Personhood’ movement explodes in 32 states. This modern movement started with Colorado’s 2008 Amendment 48 and continued with our 2010 Amendment 62. Will you support continued legal and political efforts to acknowledge that the word “person” includes every human being from beginning of the biological development of that human being?

4. Will you oppose all public funding for Planned Parenthood, the largest and richest organization in the abortion industry?

5. It is not immoral to let an irreversibly dying person die. But will you oppose euthanasia in it’s various forms, including doctor-assisted suicide, and oppose Colorado’s existing acceptance of starvation by denial of food and water?

6. While adult stem cell research is delivering real-world cures and boundless hope, it would be wrong to intentionally kill a single child even to save the whole world. Will you oppose any funding or legislation for practices that would intentionally destroy the tiniest living humans in embryonic stem cell research?

7. Legislation that says, “Abortion shall be prohibited except…” or which requires a woman to meet some condition like parental consent or viewing an ultrasound before having her child killed, in effect re-affirms the approval of the State for such abortions. Will you refuse to support any legislation, even so-called “pro-life regulations” that, after certain conditions are met allow an abortion to continue?

Colorado RTL opposes every law that regulates the killing of unborn children because, regardless of the intention, such laws:

make abortion seem more palatable to the public and politicians, and so they
merely prune the abortion weed and strengthen its root, while they
signify that the practice is occasionally acceptable, as with any regulation,
violate God’s command, Do not murder by re-authorizing abortion, and
on the surface undermine the very concept of the right to life, and
are like the PBA ban which took 15 years yet recognizes no rights, and
confuse even ‘pro-lifers’ into defending various ‘exceptions’ as good, and
call upon judges to uphold laws that regulate killing the innocent, and
turn conservative judges increasingly against the Right To Life of the unborn, and
give cover to pro-choice leaders who support some regulations, and they
could authorize millions of abortions after Roe is overturned, for they
will keep abortion legal if abortion is ever ‘returned to the states,’ for they
reduce the God-given right to life to a 2nd-tier negotiable matter, for they
are mere variations on Roe v. Wade itself which regulated abortion, and
can never ever stop the murder of unborn children because they
end with the meaning, “and then you can kill the baby.”

Colorado RTL is glad to work with you on wording for pro-life legislation, and we have an extensive nationwide network of pro-life organizations, lawyers, and public officials to draw upon. We will, however, oppose legislation and all candidates who would authorize or regulate the intentional killing of the innocent. Since we’re just three doors north of the Capitol at 1535 Grant Street, we invite you to call us at 303-753-9394 and arrange to come by and meet our officers to discuss strategy for ending decriminalized abortion. Feel free also to just stop by and say hello!

Joe Riccobono
President, Colorado RTL

Please Note: When the mother’s life is seriously threatened by a pregnancy, of course it is morally justified to deliver the baby but not if the intention is to kill the baby. When the life of the mother is at serious risk by her pregnancy, the goal must be to save the life of the mother and the baby if at all possible. It is just as wrong to kill the mother to save the baby, as it is to kill the baby to save the mother. There is never a medical emergency that could justify a physician who stops caring for a pregnant mom long enough to kill her child. “Legalizing” abortion, defined as the intentional killing of the unborn child, for the life of the mother, leads to repugnant acts like emergency removal of late-term babies from the womb, stopping midway into the procedure to kill the baby. If the baby dies, it is a tragedy; if the baby is intentionally killed, it is murder. If necessary to save the mom’s life, the unborn baby could be delivered with the determination to care for both, and if possible, to save both the baby and mother!