Dr. Alveda King PNCI’s Special Representative for Human Dignity

Dr. Alveda King serves as PNCI’s Special Representative for Human Dignity. Dr King has lived a life dedicated to advancing the dignity of all men and women despite the risks and sacrifices. The murder of her uncle, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the suspicious death of her father, A.D. King, helped to form Dr. King’s steadfast belief in human dignity. Dr. King integrates her unique family experience in the Civil Rights movement with her present day activities in the Pro-Life movement believing that both have the same heart and soul: a longing for equal justice for everyone, based on the inherent dignity of every human life.

Dr. King helps spread the message of respect for human dignity to lawmakers around the world and assists PNCI to advance the inherent dignity of man and remind government officials of the inhumanity that results when laws fail to do so.

During a recent speech to Members and staff of the European Parliament, Dr. King stated:
 
"Governments can respect or disrespect the inherent rights of all members of the human family regardless of sex, race, nationality, stage of development or condition of dependency. And while governments cannot create rights, governments around the world must be vigilant to protect the rights of all people.
 
Those in power who can speak up for the persecuted must do so, we are our brothers’ keeper and what happens to him, happens to us.
 
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote from a jail cell, "[i]njustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."  Whether a child is aborted in Birmingham, Alabama or Birmingham, England, that abortion is an assault on what my Uncle Martin called the Beloved Community; a place where, as it says in the Book of Amos: "justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

My Uncle Martin had a dream.  He dreamt that we would live out that which is self-evident – that all men are created equal.  He called on America to admit our wrongs and turn from them.

Today, I call on all of us, regardless of nationality, race or religion, to admit our wrongs and turn from them. I believe that the denial of the right to life is the greatest injustice we face in the world today. There is no compassion in killing.  There is no justice in writing people out of the human race."

PNCI and Dr. King agree that the inherent dignity and inalienable rights of all members of the human family—including the unborn child, the disabled, those suffering and those near death—form the foundation for just laws and policies around the world and encourage the enactment of such laws.