The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) proclaims that "human life is a precious gift from God; that each person who recieves this gift has responsibilities toward God, self and others; and that society, through its laws and social institutions, must protect and nurture human life at every stage of its exsistence."
Further we are reminded by Pope Francis that this includes not only a "firm and passionate" defense of "the innocent unborn," and at the same time, an "equally sacred" defense of "the lives of the poor, those already born, the destitute, the abandoned and the underprivileged, the vulnerable infirm and elderly exposed to covert euthanasia, the victims of human trafficking, new forms of slavery, and every form of rejection."
The following ministry's aim to protect all life from conception to natural death: