{"id":25524,"date":"2013-01-19T01:49:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T06:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=25524"},"modified":"2014-06-19T13:49:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T17:49:22","slug":"vaticans-eu-personhood-petition-seeks-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vaticans-eu-personhood-petition-seeks-signatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican&#8217;s EU personhood petition seeks signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25525\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/One-of-Us.png\" alt=\"One of Us\" width=\"549\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/One-of-Us.png 549w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/One-of-Us-300x76.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/>Last year, the Vatican\u2019s Pontifical Council for the Laity launched a personhood <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/citizens-initiative\/ECI-2012-000005\/public\/index.do?lang=en\">petition<\/a> in the European Union to ensure &#8220;protection of the dignity, the right to life and of the integrity of every human being from conception.&#8221; The\u00a0signature campaign, called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneofus.eu\/\">One of Us<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0is tasked with collecting one million signatures from citizens of European Union nations in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is one of the first European Citizen&#8217;s Initiatives ever registered. Supporters are optimistic that the initiative can &#8220;advance the protection of human life from conception in Europe\u00a0\u2013 within the possibilities of the competency of the EU&#8221; and send a clear pro-life message to Brussels. The\u00a0initiative would force the EU to act upon protections of the human embryo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/no-patents-for-inventions-involving-destruction-of-embryos-eu-court\">previously<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlebayandbeyond.org\/2011\/eu\/brustle-case-the-court-of-justice-of-the-european-union-reaffirms-that-a-process-involving-the-destruction-of-an-embryo-cannot-be-patented\/\">acknowledged<\/a> by the European Court of Justice (<em>Br\u00fcstle vs. Greenpeace<\/em>, 2011).<\/p>\n<p>At the 2012 <a href=\"\/news\/global-pro-life-unity-summit-set-for-lisbon\/\">Global Pro-Life Unity Summit<\/a>, pro-life organizations\u00a0from Romania, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, and Hungary shared their desire to pursue a European personhood initiative and to apply the petition process utilized in many American states. The &#8220;One of Us&#8221;\u00a0campaign shares the spirit of the <a href=\"\/news\/historic-global-pro-life-unity-summit-releases-lisbon-declaration\/\">Lisbon Declaration<\/a> released by participants of the summit. Personhood USA, a co-sponsor of the summit, has joined in solidarity with\u00a0its pro-personhood European allies and endorsed the\u00a0new Vatican-backed pro-life initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign organizers say, &#8220;The Europe of tomorrow is in your hands. Be worthy of this task.&#8221; If you live in the European Union or know someone who does, the &#8220;One of Us&#8221; campaign needs your help. Please <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneofus.eu\/donations\/\">sign the petition<\/a><\/strong> and share it with friends so that they can sign it, too. To find out how you can get involved, please contact your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneofus.eu\/about-us\/\">local pro-life representative<\/a> promoting the initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protecting and promoting life in the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":25760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[19,1275,1500,1501,220,34,1052,1273],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vatican&#039;s EU personhood petition seeks signatures - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vaticans-eu-personhood-petition-seeks-signatures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vatican&#039;s EU personhood petition seeks signatures - 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