5.4 Million Names Submitted to U.N. in Favor of the Family and the Right to Life
"The family is where we learn that the authentic role of the state is to serve its people; and not to reinvent humanity along the lines of some artificial ideology: the first and last sign of the approach of totalitarianism is the collapse of the family. Finally, we promote the family because it is the primary repository of love in our society."
(Brussels)—On December 10th two Members of the European Parliament, Anna Záborská and Carlo Casini held a press conference in the European Parliament to announce that 5.4 million families had sent a petition to the UN, calling to interpret the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as protecting the unborn child and the family. The Familiokratos coalition, established one year ago on the 10th of December 2007, gathers leaders from pro-family prolife movements. It has presented this petition to the Gabon ambassador to the Holy See, Firmin Mboutsou, as well as to other UN ambassadors in order to be distributed among UN delegates.
The group was formed in order to remind the world of the good news of the Universal Declaration and to uphold this good news in all international instruments.
As we come to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we celebrate the historic role that the family plays in drawing all these themes together and is acknowledged as the ultimate expression of our human dignity—the recognition of which is the bedrock of the UDHR.
"The family is a cultural anchor universal to all cultures." Said Záborská. She concluded: "The family is where we learn that the authentic role of the state is to serve its people; and not to reinvent humanity along the lines of some artificial ideology: the first and last sign of the approach of totalitarianism is the collapse of the family. Finally, we promote the family because it is the primary repository of love in our society."
