God our Creator, we give thanks to you, who alone has the power to impart the breath of life as you knit each of us together and fashioned our inmost being in our mother’s womb; grant we pray, that we, whom you have made stewards of creation may remain faithful to this sacred trust and constant in safeguarding the dignity of every human life. We pray also for a spirit of conversion in those who allow or promote a culture of death, most especially those charged with public office; that they may see and acknowledge the truth and recognize their ongoing responsibility to guard and defend every human life from conception to natural death. We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen