« Before God and men, we, the Servants of Life, testify that every member of our species is a person. The devotion owed to each one does not depend on his age, nor on the illness that might overwhelm him; from his conception to his last moments, it is the same human being who develops, matures and dies. The rights of the person are inalienable from the beginning. The fertilized egg, the embryo, the fetus cannot be donated nor sold. His or her continuous development in the mother’s body cannot be denied. No one may subject him or her to any form of exploitation. No one may take his or her life, neither his or her father, nor mother, nor any authority. Therefore, vivisection, abortion, euthanasia, cannot be the act of a Servant of Life.

We, likewise, declare that the sources of life must be preserved. As the heritage of all, the human genome is unavailable. He or she cannot be the object of ideological or commercial speculation. His or her particularities cannot be patented.

Concerned to perpetuate the Hippocratic tradition and to conform our practice to the moral precepts of the Roman Magisterium, we reject any deliberate degradation of the genome, any exploitation of gametes and any induced disturbance of reproductive functions. We reaffirm that the relief of suffering and the cure of disease, the preservation of health and the repair of the genetic heritage errors, are the goal of our efforts, the respect for the person being safeguarded ».