Objectives of the pro-life ministry

1) To defend and advance the “culture of life.”
2) To protect the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop.
3) To preserve the family and its moral values, recognizing the sacredness and sovereignty of the family as the basic institution of society.
4) To establish a voice for the family against forces that seek to destroy the family and life, through fora, media and other channels of communication.
5) To provide information on, assistance to and continuing education for family, culture and life issues.
6) To promote the truth that “every crime against life is an attack on peace, especially if it strikes at the moral conduct of people.”
7) To support CFC in its work of evangelization, family renewal and total human liberation.
8) To collaborate with all other religions and sectors of society in its campaign for life.

Following are the anti-life issues to be covered:
• Abortion
• Contraception
• Sterilization
• Population control
• Euthanasia
• Capital punishment
• Divorce
• Prostitution
• Pornography
• Embryonic stem cell research
• Human cloning
• In-vitro fertilization
• Homosexual acts
• Sex education devoid of moral values (re-named as “Values clarification”)
• Abolition of legal parental rights
• Eradication of motherhood as the basic vocation of women
• Eradication of religion
• Consumerism, secular humanism
• Situational ethics and moral relativism
• Re-definition of family, to include gay marriages
• Gender issues: radical feminism
• Sexual permissiveness
• Substance Abuse and other forms of addiction
• Domestic Violence
• Disarmament

Following will be the activities of this pro-life ministry:
• Mainstreaming of NFP
• Fertility awareness and human sexuality
• Chastity education for youth and singles
• Training on pro-life issues for all sectors of society
• Lobby for pro-life legislation
• Media advocacy
• Medical practitioners advocacy
• Women’s education and advocacy
• Crisis intervention counseling
• Homosexual rehabilitation
• Hospice care
• Adoption services
• Ongoing research

Approved by the CFC Council on June 4, 2005