Good afternoon.
My name is Steve Karlen, and I am here to submit more than 1,000 signatures on behalf of Madison Vigil for Life.
The members of my organization are people of faith. Yet we are a people of faith that is grounded in reason. That a new, unique, and individual human life begins at the moment of conception is an indisputable fact, proven by both logic and empirical science.
Indeed, this debate over plans to perform late-term abortions at the Madison Surgery Center is not a debate over when life begins, but over which human beings we as a society decide to value and which we decide to discard.
The University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics and Meriter hospital boards now have an important choice to make. Will their institutions affirm the self-evident truths that all human beings are created equal, endowed by their Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness? Or will they decide that a person’s value can be arbitrarily diminished by size, age, health, or location?
Can anyone seriously suggest that mere passage through the birth canal transforms a body from a non-entity to an individual worthy of society’s protection? Indeed, abortion is an irrational act.
Secondly, we must take issue with the UW Health statement that callously labeled abortion as a community service. We cannot conceive of any other service that leads to an astronomically high risk of suicide and substance abuse. So-called family planning services are the only cases where health care is designed to destroy the normal, healthy functioning of the human body.
This week, I have spoken with businessmen who have begun exploring opportunities for changing their insurance plans so that they need not patronize Meriter and UWHC should these late-term abortion plans be enacted. I invite all businesses, families and individuals to join them in this boycott.
Thank you.
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