March 14, 2007

Take Action to Pass the RTL Act of SC - H.3284, SC House -

March 14, 2007

Right to Life Act of SC - "Personhood" for all humans at fertilization

South Carolina's House pro-life bill to end (not just incrementally 'regulate') "legalized" abortion (SC House bill H.3284) - now with 32 co-sponsors

Please contact your SC House member to sign on as a co-sponsor as soon as possible if he (she) is not already one of the 32 listed below:

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H. 3284 - the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina"

Sponsors: Reps. Davenport, Vick, Huggins, Bingham, Toole, Hamilton, Leach, Shoopman, G.M. Smith, Bedingfield, Simrill, Littlejohn, Owens, Rice, G. Brown, Barfield, M.A. Pitts, E.H. Pitts, Loftis, J.R. Smith, G.R. Smith, Weeks, Whitmire, Viers, Pinson, Talley, Mahaffey, Duncan, Mulvaney, Cato, Walker and Lowe

(29 R's, 3 D's)

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H.3284, SC House, the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina" with current sponsors can be seen at:
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm

Bill History

This bill has been continuously filed in the South Carolina House of Representatives since 1998,and has been filed in the South Carolina Senate first in 1998, and then, 2005, 2006, and 2007. For the first time, it passed the House of Representatives on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95-18 (95 'Yes' - 66 R's + 29 D's versus 18 'No' - 1 R + 17 D's), albeit with a fatal flaw rape 'exception' amendment which had been proposed by a Representative who is now no longer a member of the SC House. The bill had 52 co-sponsors (47 R's, 5 D's) before this vote on Second Reading.

[Interesting historical footnote: Union forces occupying Fort Sumter in Charleston (SC) harbor surrendered on April 13, 1861 after a day and a half of bombardment by Confederate artillery.]

Then after two Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearings (with no vote) in May 2005, the bill was stalled there in Chairman Senator Jim Ritchie's (R-Spartanburg) subcommittee the short remainder of the 2005 Legislative Session, and then the entire January thru June 2006 session, killing the bill:

(2006)
SC's Republican-majority State Senate kills the SC baby-killing ban bill
South Carolina's pro-life bill to end "legalized" abortion (House bill H.3213 / Senate bill S.111) www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-152.doc

(2006)
REPUBLICANS IN S.C. SENATE PROLONG CHILD-KILLING:
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC House (74 R's to 50 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC Senate (26 R's to 20 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina occupy the Governor's office, the Lt. Governor's office,and the Attorney General's office.
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-126.doc

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2007

Please contact your SC House member to sign on as a co-sponsor to H.3284 as soon as possible if he (she) is not already one of the 32 listed above,...

www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/housemembers.html

...especially these who were co-sponsors in 2005-2006 of the same bill, ascan be seen for H.3213 (SC House bill in 2005-2006, that was amended with a fatal flaw rape 'exception' amendment on the floor of the House 4/13/05):

www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm

but who have thus far not signed on again, to H.3284:

Brian White, W.D."Doug" Smith, Skipper Perry, Greg Delleney, Dan Cooper, Gloria Haskins, David Hiott, Jim Merrill, D.C. "Don" Smith, Bill Herbkersman, Cathy Ceips, Fletcher Smith, Michael Thompson, Annette Young, Ben Hagood, and Converse Chellis (note: Hagood and Chellis did not sign on as co-sponsors until 4/13/05, the day the rape exception was added)

(15 R's, 1 D)

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The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC House (73 R's to 51 D's) in 2007
www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/house2.html

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Remaining Republicans in the SC House who were House members, but not co-sponsors of H.3213 in 2005-2006, nor are they yet co-sponsors of H.3284 thus far in 2007, are:

Nathan Ballentine, Bruce Bannister, Joan Brady, Richard Chalk, Alan Clemmons, Bill Cotty, Tom Dantzler, Tracy Edge, Marion Frye, Nikki Haley, Nelson Hardwick, Bobby Harrell (Speaker of the SC House), Jim Harrison, Shirley Hinson, Chip Limehouse, Jay Lucas, Bill Sandifer, Wallace Scarborough, B.R. Skelton, Jim Stewart, Adam Taylor, David Umphlett and Billy Witherspoon

(23 R's)

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Remaining new Republicans in the SC House who were not House members until 2007, and who have not signed on yet as co-sponsors of H.3284 thus far in 2007, are:

Don Bowen, Kris Crawford, Mike Gambrell, Carl Gullick, Keith Kelly and Kit Spires

(6 R's)

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Fax all SC House members at 803-734-2925 (include Representative's name);

Other contact information for SC Representatives at:
www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/housemembers.html

Ask all Representatives to co-sponsor H.3284 and pass the bill.

Phone calls and letters and personal visits are most effective; then fax; then e-mail.

If you would like your letter or note to be hand-delivered to the Representative, you may go to the Second Floor lobby of the SC State House in Columbia anytime the Legislature is meeting ('in session'), fill out and attach a small lobbying memo form, and ask the SC House pages to personally deliver it to your Representative at his (her) desk in the House chamber. If you need help identifying and/or finding out the contact information for your SC House member, you may call the Columbia Christians for Life office for help at: (803) 765-0916 -please have the number of your SC House District (off your voter registration card, or findout from your County Voter Registration office) handy before calling the CCL office.

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Please also call Republican Governor Mark Sanford, who did absolutely nothing during his first four-year term of office as governor (Jan. 2003 thru Jan. 2007) to publicly give his support to the Right to Life Act of SC. Ask Governor Sanford to do his second highest duty, that of preventing the shedding of innocent blood in our state, and to use his influence and the 'bully pulpit' of his office, to help pass the Right to Life Act (phone 803-734-2100, fax 803-734-0546 and fax 803-734-9413). Ask him to expend some of his 'political capital' in saving the lives of unborn babies from death !

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Text of SC House bill H.3284, the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina"

www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm

link is also available on the Home Page of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (CCL website)

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South Carolina General Assembly
117th Session, 2007-2008

H. 3284
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill

Sponsors: Reps. Davenport, Vick, Huggins, Bingham, Toole, Hamilton, Leach, Shoopman, G.M. Smith, Bedingfield, Simrill, Littlejohn, Owens, Rice, G. Brown, Barfield, M.A. Pitts, E.H. Pitts, Loftis, J.R. Smith, G.R. Smith, Weeks, Whitmire, Viers, Pinson, Talley, Mahaffey, Duncan, Mulvaney, Cato, Walker and Lowe

Introduced in the House on January 17, 2007
Currently residing in the House Committee on Judiciary
Summary: Right to Life Act

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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1/17/2007 House Introduced and read first time HJ-13
1/17/2007 House Referred to Committee on Judiciary HJ-13

A BILL

TO AMEND TITLE 1, CHAPTER 1, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF GOVERNMENT, BY ADDING ARTICLE 5 SO AS TO ENACT THE "RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SOUTH CAROLINA" WHICH ESTABLISHES THAT THE RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AND THE RIGHT TO EQUAL PROTECTION VEST AT FERTILIZATION.

Whereas, the General Assembly, under Article III, Section 1A of the Constitution of the State of South Carolina, 1895, is empowered to assemble to make new laws, as the common good may require; and

Whereas, Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of the State of South Carolina, 1895, guarantees that no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law or denied the equal protection of the laws; and

Whereas, the General Assembly in the exercise of its constitutional powers and in carrying out its duties and responsibilities under the law finds it necessary and proper to ensure that the rights of its citizens extend to each newly born and preborn human person. Now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Title 1, Chapter 1 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Article 5
Right to Life

Section 1-1-310. This article may be cited as the 'Right to Life Act of South Carolina'.

Section 1-1-320. The right to due process, whereby no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, and the right to equal protection of the laws, both of which rights are guaranteed by Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of this State, vest at fertilization."

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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This web page was last updated on March 14, 2007 at 2:21 PM

H.3284, the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina" with current sponsors can be seen at:
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm


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2007 STATE-LEVEL ABORTION BAN BILLS
- GA, MT, ND, SC, TX, VA (12% of States in U.S.)
Revised and updated as of February 1, 2007 (.doc file)
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/RTLAofUS-07-01.doc
(CCL correction: missing SC Senate bill S.313, filed January 23, 2007)

2007 STATE-LEVEL ABORTION BAN BILLS
- GA, MT, ND, SC, TX, VA (12% of States in U.S.)
Revised and updated as of February 1, 2007 (.htm file)
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/RTLAofUS-07-01.htm
(CCL correction: missing SC Senate bill S.313, filed January 23, 2007)

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Prepared by Columbia Christians for Life * (803) 765-0916 * Columbia, SC
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, click on "RTL Act of SC"

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Please help support the efforts of Columbia Christians for Life to pass legislation in the SC General Assembly to recognize the God-given humanity (created in His image) and legal "personhood" of all pre-birth human beings, at fertilization, to end "legalized" child-murder-by-abortion, and not just incessantly, incrementally, regulate this crime. God's answer to Murder is Justice ! Not just Regulation.

One of the important ways that you can help, in addition to contacting your SC House member as explained above, is to support Columbia Christians for Life financially.

If you would like to support the ministry efforts of CCL to take the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Truth to the "Gates" in South Carolina, please consider sending a financial gift.

To donate to Columbia Christians for Life:

Two methods

-1. Please make checks to:
Columbia Christians for Life (CCL)
(not tax deductible)
P.O. Box 50358
Columbia, SC 29250

2. Or, if you are a PayPal member (http://www.paypal.com/), you may also send CCL donations to: CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net [contributions to CCL are not tax-deductible]

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