WVFL POLICY STATEMENT

WVFL is a non-profit, public-service organization. WVFL is a statewide network of county chapters and the voice for the unborn in West Virginia. Our goal is the preservation of human life from conception to natural death. Consequently, we oppose the practices of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia. However, in order to remain open to as many persons as possible, we take no positions on such peripheral issues as the death penalty, true contraception, and war; nor are we affiliated with any particular religious group. Finally, we do not participate in, nor support, any illegal activities.

WVFL's primary purpose is to educate through the presentation of detailed and factual information about fetal development, abortion, alternatives to abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and related issues, upon which individuals and the general public may make informed decisions.

The legal protection of the right to life of innocent human beings is the basic issue upon which all other issues of human rights and justice depend. It is the pivotal human rights issue today, because once we abandon the basic democratic principle of equality - that ALL human beings deserve the protection of the law no matter what their size, their age or their degree of dependency - then the rights of all of us are less secure.

Members of WVFL come from many different social, economic, racial, religious, age, and political backgrounds, and are bound together by a common dedication to the protection of all human life. Our cause is to foster and protect society's traditional respect for life supporting the civil and human rights of the unborn, the defenseless, the aged, the disadvantaged, and all human life.