Last week, Vision Forum Ministries published their voters guide comparing three of the presidential candidates on issues related to the sanctity of human life. As we've seen in the past, it is very easy to contrast Barack Obama and John McCain on abortion (30 reasons to vote against Barack Obama). However, VF provides a higher standard which obfuscates the difference between Republican and Democrat, making Chuck Baldwin the only pro-life candidate:
As an organization that cherishes the sanctity of human life, we at Vision Forum Ministries have been deeply concerned at the fact that critical information concerning the presidential candidates' track record and positions on the life issue have been excluded or minimized in various voter guides and articles that conservative organizations have been disseminating in anticipation of next Tuesday's election.We acknowledge that there are many issues and sub-issues related to the candidates' record and campaign commitments concerning human life, but, at the end of the day, Christian voters need to have these five basic questions answered:
It is these five questions that our Sanctity of Life Voter Guide seeks to answer, and we encourage those who cherish human life to carefully consider the candidates' position on each issue before they cast their vote
- Are the candidates willing to support federal funding for Planned Parenthood?
- Are the candidates willing to appoint pro-abortion judges to serve on the Supreme Court? Have they indicated that they will not make abortion and litmus test when selecting federal judge nominees?
- Are the candidates willing to support experimentation on living human beings through embryonic stem cell research?
- Are the candidates willing to condone the murder of unborn children through abortion under some circumstances?
- Are the candidates in opposition to taking active steps to overturn Roe v. Wade (for fear that women's life might be "endangered" or any other reason)?
I have linked to this post from BlogWatch: Final hours to 2008 Election
I realize how hard it is to put this information together and get it out there. And after the election there is still more that needs to be done.