Remembering March for Life founder Nellie Gray’s famous ‘Life Principles’

NO EXCEPTION! NO COMPROMISE!
by LifeSiteNews staff: Nellie Gray, the founder of the March for Life, was a pro-life warrior whose famous "life principles" are worth remembering every day. Every year during the March for Life, even during this year's "virtual" March, pro-life activists around the world recall Nellie Gray's heroic and historic stand for unborn children.

The key provision of her "life principles" was: "NO EXCEPTION! NO COMPROMISE!"

Modeled after the Declaration of Independence, Gray's "life principles" assert that "all human beings are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which is the right to life."

Accordingly, the "right to life of each human being shall be preserved and protected by every human being in the society and by the society as a whole," from conception until natural death. "The life of each human being shall be preserved and protected at each stage of the life continuum to the same extent as at each and every other stage regardless of state of health or condition of dependency," Gray emphasized.

"When there is any doubt that there exists a human being's life to preserve and protect, such doubt shall be resolved in favor of the existence of a human being," she wrote. "When two or more human beings are in a situation in which their lives are mutually endangered, all available ordinary means and reasonable efforts shall be used to preserve and protect the life of each and every human being so endangered."

During a 1994 interview with EWTN's Mother Angelica, Gray recounted:When we found legislation making exceptions first for the life of the mother, rather than putting in there equal care for both the mother and the pre-born child, they [pro-life leaders and others] were actually saying that someone had the authority to kill an innocent child. Then you know what happened, once they made that one exception for the life of the mother, abortionists came along and put an exception for rape and incest and deformed children. And once those principles were violated, then unfortunately it was extremely difficult to make the abortionists understand that killing an innocent human being is not within the scope of either the moral or the secular law, and it is because of that … those exceptions divided the various organizations.She added:What we have seen is that there was an effort to compromise on this basic subject of life for which there is no compromise. You're either for or against it. There is no neutrality and there is no in between. You can't have a little bit of abortion. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You must understand that life must be protected in total. And once those principles were broken, more and more education was done that it is alright to kill some babies and unfortunately that came from those who were trying to defend life. And when that wrong message got through then unfortunately we've had 22 years of going downhill.Nellie Gray died in 2012 at age 88. . . . Read more
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