2026 Election Endorsement Process Updates
The Right to Life of Michigan PAC endorsements for the upcoming primary election have been released and may be viewed below.
Because we have received a high volume of questions regarding several local races, we want to provide clarity on the structural rules that govern our relationship with the state organization and the Right to Life of Michigan PAC.
- The Recommendation Process: Our local Livingston County Right to Life volunteers invested significant time conducting candidate interviews and submitting formal evaluations. According to the Right to Life of Michigan PAC bylaws, the final authority rests entirely with the State PAC Board, which maintains the structural authority to bypass or depart from local affiliate recommendations (per RLM-PAC By-laws, State Board Endorsement Authority).
- Affirmation vs. Judgment: Because final state endorsements do not always mirror local input, an endorsement should be viewed as an official affirmation of a single candidate, not a negative judgment against any other candidate. A lack of an endorsement should never be interpreted as an indication that a candidate lacks deep, proven pro-life convictions or a strong local record of advocacy (per RLM-PAC By-law Article VI, Section 6, D).
- The Affiliate Rule: As a chartered local affiliate, our organization and our individual board members are required by the state organization’s rules to uphold and support the final endorsements issued by the State PAC Board (per RLM-PAC Affiliate Bylaws and Sanction Policy).
- Future Steps: The Livingston County leadership team has contacted the state organization to discuss the details of this cycle’s process. Our local affiliate board is actively discussing options for future election cycles (per RLM-PAC Operations Manual for Local Chapters).
We are deeply grateful for every leader in our community who stands unshakeably for the protection of human life. Please keep all those who work to enshrine the sanctity of life from conception until natural death in our state and nation in your prayers as we all strive to serve with faithfulness and truth.
Why the Right to Life Comes First
Critics often attack pro-life voters for being “single-issue voters.” But perhaps the better question is this:
Why aren’t more people?
Every society recognizes that some issues are more fundamental than others. We would never criticize someone for being a “single-issue voter” against slavery, child abuse, human trafficking, or racism. We understand that certain injustices are so grave that they must take precedence.
The right to life is one of those issues.
Every day, thousands of unborn human beings lose their lives through abortion. No other issue before voters involves the direct and intentional taking of innocent human life on such a scale.
The burden is not on pro-life voters to explain why they prioritize life. The burden is on others to explain why they do not.
Life is the foundation of every other right. Healthcare, education, immigration, employment, housing, and voting rights all matter—but none matter to someone who has been denied the most basic right of all: the right to live.
On most political issues, people share the same goal and disagree about the solution. Virtually no one supports hunger, poverty, poor healthcare, or injustice. The debate is about methods.
Abortion is different.
The central question is simple: What is the unborn child?
Science is clear. From conception, a distinct, living human organism exists. This is not a religious belief. It is a biological fact.
If the unborn child is a human being—and science says he or she is—then justice demands protection, not destruction.
History does not judge societies by how they treated the powerful. It judges them by how they treated the weak, the vulnerable, and those unable to defend themselves.
That is why many Americans vote first and foremost on the right to life.
Not because they care less about other issues.
Because they believe every other issue begins with the recognition that every human life has value.
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Ryan Bomberger
I have to laugh when I hear liberals accuse social conservatives of being “single-issue” voters. Of course voters, like me, are concerned about a whole plethora of issues especially since the government has intruded into every possible facet of our lives. But there is virtue in single-mindedness. There is worth in focusing on an egregious injustice that outweighs other More…
Scott Klusendorf
The Case for Life provides intellectual grounding for the pro-life convictions that most evangelicals hold. Author Scott Klusendorf first simplifies the debate: the sanctity of life is not a morally complex issue. It’s not about choice, privacy, or scientific progress.