As an organization that cherishes the sanctity of human life, we 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:

• 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 a 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 lives might be “endangered” or any other reason)?

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. We would also encourage the distribution of the PDF copy of this Sanctity of Life Voter Guide that answers these questions with documented references to the candidates’ actual record on these five critical points. To learn more about Sen. John McCain’s position on these same issues, be sure to read, “John McCain’s Record on Abortion.”