Right to Life Act of SC - "Personhood" for all humans at fertilization
South Carolina's Senate pro-life bill to end (not just incrementally 'regulate') "legalized" abortion (SC Senate bill S.313) - now with nine co-sponsors
Please contact your SC Senate member to sign on as a co-sponsor as soon as possible if he (she) is not already one of the nine listed below:
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S. 313 - the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina"
Sponsors: Senators Fair, Bryant, Verdin, Hayes, O'Dell, Thomas, McGill, Vaughn and Ryberg
(8 R's, 1 D)
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S.313, SC Senate, the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina" with current sponsors can be seen at: www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/313.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 Senate member to sign on as a co-sponsor to S.313 as soon as possible if he (she) is not already one of the nine listed above,...
www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/senatemembers.html
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The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC Senate (25 R's to 20 D's, and1 vacancy) at this time in 2007
www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/senate2.html
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Remaining 17 Republicans in the SC Senate who are not co-sponsors of S.313 thus far in 2007, are:
Thomas Alexander, Ray Cleary, Ronnie Cromer, Chip Campsen, John Courson, Larry Grooms, Greg Gregory, John Hawkins, Jake Knotts, Hugh Leatherman, Larry Martin, Glenn McConnell, Bill Mescher, Harvey Peeler, Luke Rankin, Jim Ritchie and Randy Scott
(17 R's)
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Only one Democrat is a co-sponsor of S.313 at this time;
the remaining 19 Democrats who are not co-sponsors of S.313 thus far in 2007, are:
Ralph Anderson, Dick Elliott, John Drummond, Robert Ford, Darrell Jackson,** John Land, Phil Leventis, Brad Hutto, Joel Lourie, Gerald Malloy, John Matthews, Tom Moore, Kay Patterson, Clementa Pinckney,** Glenn Reese, Vincent Sheheen, Nikki Setzler, Linda Short, and Kent Williams
(19 R's)
** Jackson and Pinckney are church ministers
www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/senatemembers.html
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Fax all SC Senate members at 803-212-6299 (include Senator's name);
Other contact information for SC Senators at:
www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/senatemembers.html
Ask all Senators to co-sponsor S.313 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 Senator, 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 available at the desk outside the Senate chamber, and turn in your memo to be delivered to your Senator at his (her) desk in the Senate chamber.
If you need help identifying and/or finding out the contact information for your SC Senate member, you may call the Columbia Christians for Life office for help at: (803) 765-0916 -please have the number of your SC Senate District (off your voter registration card, or find out 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 Senate bill S.313, the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina"
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/313.htm
Link is also to become available on the Home Page of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (CCL website)
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South Carolina General Assembly
117th Session, 2007-2008
S. 313
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senators Fair, Bryant, Verdin, Hayes, O'Dell, Thomas, McGill, Vaughn and Ryberg
Introduced in the Senate on January 23, 2007
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary
Summary: Right to Life Act
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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1/23/2007 Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-6
1/23/2007 Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary SJ-6
A BILL
TO AMEND TITLE 1, CHAPTER 1, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
976, 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 11:29 AM
S.313, the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina" with current sponsors can be seen at:
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/313.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 corrections: missing SC Senate bill S.313, filed January 23, 2007;
and CO Senate bill SB 143, introduced January 29, 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 corrections: missing SC Senate bill S.313, filed January 23, 2007;
and CO Senate bill SB 143, introduced January 29, 2007)
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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 Housemember 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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