American Values is deeply committed to the defense of all human life against the assaults of the culture of death. Our goal is to help build and sustain a culture where life is protected and promoted from conception until natural death. At American Values, we feel the right to life is just as fundamental to who we are as a civilized people as was the question of slavery. We fought a brutal civil war largely over whether or not some men and women could be considered property. The answer then, regrettably, was not so obvious to some. The question of whether or not some children should even be allowed to live is just as fundamental and the answer just as obvious. We believe the sanctity of life for all our unborn children and our elderly and disabled will be the greatest civil rights issue of the century. How we deal with these issues is fundamental to our future as a civilized society. There are some serious concerns about the future, however. Despite advances in ultrasound and other medical technology that increasingly reveal the humanity and viability of unborn babies – even at the earliest stages – anti-life activists continue their unceasing campaign to reaffirm the right to murder under the euphemisms of choice and privacy.