The Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI) is a unique pro-life outreach to elected members of national governments. Parliamentarian is the global term for an elected official serving in national government, be it a parliament, congress, national assembly, or other national term such as the Russian Duma, German Bundestag, Sejm in Poland, Houses of the Oireachtas in Ireland, the National Diet of Japan, etc. Together they are  known as parliamentarians and related actions are labeled parliamentary. Hence a Parliamentary Network unites these lawmakers.
 
PNCI networks parliamentarians on critical life issues to assist their efforts to defend life as they undertake their essential responsibilities to write laws, defend laws, propose laws, enact laws and policies, allocate funding and conduct oversight on important issues facing their country.
 
PNCI believes pro-life parliamentarians must be given the support, resources and information they need to oppose the advancement of abortion and protect pro-life laws. Networking together, lawmakers can more effectively confront the assault on the culture of life. 
 
It was determined at the International Population and Development Conference at Cairo that “Any measures or changes related to abortion within the health system can only be determined at the national or local level according to the national legislative process.”  As a result, pro-abortion organizations target lawmakers and finance the formation of pro-abortion parliamentary caucuses in numerous countries and regions.
 
Due to their strategic position, parliamentarians— especially those whose countries ban or limit abortion— are pressured to advance legal abortion by false arguments which manipulate human rights, poverty reduction, development, reproductive health, reduction of maternal mortality, population control and women’s equality to advance access to abortion.
 
PNCI counters pro-abortion propaganda to protect a culture of life in key countries facing challenges to pro-life laws and helps lawmakers who desire to reduce the abortion rate in countries with abortion on demand.