Isaiah 1:16

. . .cease to do evil. (Is.1:16)

At the outset of his message, the prophet proclaims this simple command, which must surely be the very beginning of any moral life.

Before any moral progress can be made, there must be a turning aside from wrongdoing, or at least from the most deadly and serious sins. Prior to any attempt to help others, more important than any intercessory prayer or fasting or sacrifice, one must stop doing harm. In order to promote and defend life, one must first stop murdering.

The pro-life strike in not any more ambitious than that. A simple equation. Abortion is murder, a heinous crime. To fund it is to partake in the crime. In order to pray, fast, vote, write letters, sign petitions, display signs, hold seminars, and all the other worthy pro-life activities - before all that, we must first stop partaking in the crime ourselves.

Manhattan Declaration - 2

I have submitted the following suggestion to the "Contact" page of The Manhattan Declaration:

This amazing ground swell is a grace from on high, and may be the answer to our prayers and fasting. Please do not allow this to become just another feel-good symbolic gesture. Please offer some concrete things that folks can do beyond the usual advice to "pray, fast and spread the word". People are awaking; we need to do something, and not just be content to be awake.

Again, please consider this possibility for at least some of the signers of the The Manhattan Declaration: join together in a general tax strike until our government stops compelling us via our taxes to violate our consciences. Realizing that many would not find this agreeable, yet if a small fraction of your signers were to join this effort, it would be of tremendous impact, and would likely snowball, Lord willing.

You could point your visitors to the home page: http://prolifestrike.org

or to the "manifesto" page which gives a systematic rationale for such a strike: http://prolifestrike.org/manifesto.php

or to the blog post related to the Manhattan Declaration: http://prolifestrike.org/blog/2009/11/manhattan-declaration.html

As stated there, if anyone on your team wants to adopt this idea as his own, I would gladly turn the reins of this site over to someone with better credentials than myself.