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Black Children Are an Endangered Species

Georgia Right to Life (www.grtl.org) promotes respect and effective legal protection for all human life from its earliest biological beginning through natural death. GRTL is one of the numbers of organizations that have adopted Personhood (www.personhood.net) as the most effective pro-life strategy for the 21st century.

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Personhood – Being Pro-life in the 21st Century

Personhood is the pro-life battle-ground of the 21st century. Throughout the history of the Church the doctrinal teaching of the “Sanctity of Life” (Genesis 1:26-27) has been the belief that Man is created Imago Dei (Latin: in the image of God) and therefore has worth at all stages of life. This is the bedrock of Western civilization’s  understanding and practice of human dignity. We are told in the gospels that John the Baptist was known by God, called by God, named by God  and then filled by God with the holy Spirit while still in his mother’s womb. This is an example of the biblical worldview of Personhood.

Let’s contrast our biblical worldview with an emerging secular worldview. Peter Singer is the  DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University.

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Chimeras, hybrids and 'cybrids'

In biotechnology it is now possible to combine elements between organisms of different species. It is also possible to create cloned animals using parts of eggs from one species and nuclear genetic material from another. It is even possible to create novel organisms via interspecies combinations of gametes. Should such procedures ever be permissible between animal species? If so, should we ever combine human beings with animals?

Early in 2007 a parliamentary committee met to discuss the technological and ethical issues surrounding any possible mixing together of human and animal species. They sat as a response to proposed legislation which, if enacted, would have banned such work. After effective lobbying from scientists and other associated interest groups, the committee decided in favou...

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Personhood and the Imago Dei

All of us are familiar with the classic hymn Holy, Holy, Holy , where the refrain declares the eternal truth, "God in three Persons . . . bless-ed Trinity." One God, three distinct Persons . . .  set apart from each other and yet equal . . this is a great and profound mystery. Personhood exists in the Godhead.

When God created Mankind he imparted a similar attribute of Personhood. Genesis 1:26-27 says, “Then God said,“Let us make man in our image, after our likeness . . .So God created man in His own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (ESV).

In the original Hebrew this would have meant, "Let us make man to be like us and to represent us." An example would be the sacrament of  marriage where "two become one flesh." (Mark 10:8) Two persons, co-... Read more...

The Foundations of Personhood - Today's Debate, Tomorrow's Future

Welcome to Personhood.net. We hope that this site will become a valuable resource for anyone looking to enter the current national debate centered upon the question: "What is a person?" Personhood.net's aim is to engage our culture, while providing educational resources, policy recommendations, and legislative models, in defense of human life and human dignity.

Our nation is unique in that it was founded upon the Judeo-Christian belief that mankind "was endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The Right to Life is a person's most basic right. Without the protection of this one Right, all other rights are moot.

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