http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20081030/ts_usnews/incoloradovoterswilldecidewhetherhumanembryosarepeopleunderstatesconstitution;_ylt=AtpfJP18qwFnTzIc5FZHVv1h24cA
In the battleground state of Colorado on November 4, along with casting a vote for Barack Obama or John McCain, voters will be considering whether or not to make Colorado the first state to give constitutional rights to human embryos.
The proposed Amendment 48 would change Colorado's Constitution to define the term "person" as "any human being from the moment of fertilization." That means fertilized eggs and fetuses would have all the rights of individuals under Colorado law, down to the right to due process.
Supporters say it protects the value of life and clarifies "personhood" in light of scientific findings on how humans develop in the womb. They also argue that it won't automatically overturn access to contraception, abortion, or medical research involving embryos, since courts still will have to interpret laws on a case-by-case basis.
But opponents say the amendment could have wide-ranging consequences. The amendment could allow abortion, and even contraception, to be interpreted as murder, without exception for victims of rape or incest. In vitro fertilization could be banned, since the eggs used in the process would be protected; so could stem cell research. Meanwhile, more than 20,000 references to "persons" exist in state statutes, regulations, and city ordinances, meaning that the ban could have unintended effects, one reason the Colorado Bar Association has opposed it.
"It is a blatant attempt to interfere into personal, private, family health decisions," says Fofi Mendez, campaign manager for Vote NO on 48.
The views of Mendez and other opponents of the ban, including self-described "pro-life" Gov. Bill Ritter, seem to have struck a chord with Coloradans. Even though supporters originally gathered more than 130,000 signatures to get the measure on the ballot, support seems to have tumbled. A recent Rocky Mountain News/CBS4 News poll showed that more than two thirds of Colorado voters oppose the bill, compared with 27 percent in favor. That's despite another poll showing that 44 percent of voters in the state say life begins at conception.
Even if the measure fails, though, some say it points to a rising politicization of contraception. Mississippi, Georgia, Michigan, Oregon, and Montana have attempted to get similar measures passed, Mendez says.
Contraception also has become an issue in nine races in this election, according to Cristina Page of the advocacy site BirthControlWatch.org, including congressional campaigns in New Jersey, Ohio, New Hampshire, Washington, Virginia, and Colorado as well as a gubernatorial race in Washington.
"This is a trend we're going to see--birth control becoming a campaign issue--grow," says Page.
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2007-2008 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- AL, CO, GA, MT, SC, VA
Updated February 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/2007-2008-state-level-personhood-and.html
THE STATE OF COLORADO IS ACTUALLY VOTING FOR A PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT TO THE COLORADO STATE CONSTITUTION ON NOV. 4, 2008 !VOTE "YES" FOR AMENDMENT 48 !
www.ColoradoForEqualRights.com/
To see that the Colorado state constitution is amended to include pre-born from the moment of fertilization as having their "personhood" clearly established, so that they may enjoy equal protection under the law.
The term "Person" or "Persons" shall include any human from the time of fertilization.
"Personhood Song" - Artist: Tony Funderbunk (4:06 - audio link)
"Give an unborn baby personhood..."
www.coloradorighttolife.org/files/audio/personhood.mp3
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From the very text of the Roe v. Wade decision - if "personhood" for the fetus is established (with no "exceptions") then the legal argument for abortion "collapses":
Right to Life Act of SC - news conference and "Jesus Christ is Lord of the Gates" pro-life rally - Jan. 17, 2006
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
In the very text of the Roe v. Wade US supreme Court decision it states, “[Texas] argue[s] that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment… If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” In other words, there never would have been legalized abortion under Roe v. Wade. But tragically, Texas had an “exception” which undermined their entire “personhood” argument. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: “[ Footnote 54 ] When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. Despite broad proscription, an exception always exists… But if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother's condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the Amendment's command? ...”
Roe v. Wade
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 35 years ago. The issue of legal “Personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 35 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
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"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." Psalm 9:17, KJB
"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it." Psalm 94:15, KJB
No King but King Jesus! (Yeshua Messiah)
Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America’s Colonial Charters, State Constitutions, and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18 Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 794-6273
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
www.LefemineForLife.net
October 30, 2008
October 30, 2008
October 21, 2008
RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SC Personhood bill - End Abortion in SC
- SC State House News Conference - May 27, 2008
REPUBLICAN*** SC LEGISLATURE Continues to Fail to ESTABLISH JUSTICE:
To Protect the Lives of Over 7,000 Pre-Birth Children Murdered Each Year in SC by Surgical Abortion !
Right to Life Act SC Personhood bill - TEN YEARS ! 1998-2008
Bill: H.3284/H.3697/S.313, the "Right to Life Act of SC" - Personhood bill - End Abortion in SC
H.3284
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm
H.3697
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3697.htm
S.313
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/313.htm
Where: SC State House
First Floor Lobby
Columbia, South Carolina
When: Tuesday, May 27, 2008, at 11:45 AM
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SC State House News Conference - May 27, 2008:
(L-R)
- Mr. Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn
- Mr. Charles Butler, pastor, Souls Afire Baptist Church
- Miss Anne Rainville
79. (Sign) - REPUBLICAN SC LEGISLATURE Continues to Fail to ESTABLISH JUSTICE:
To Protect the Lives of Over 7,000 Pre-Birth Children Murdered Each Year in SC by Abortion !
Right to Life Act of SC - TEN YEARS ! 1998-2008
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At the end of the regular 2008 SC Legislative session, and after TEN YEARS (1998-2008) since the bill was first filed, the REPUBLICAN*** SC LEGISLATURE Continues to Fail to ESTABLISH JUSTICE:
To Protect the Lives of Over 7,000 Pre-Birth Humans Murdered Each Year in SC by Surgical Abortion !
*** The Republicans have been in the majority in the SC House continuously since January 1995
The Republicans have been in the majority in the SC Senate continuously since January 2001
During the entire 2007-2008 SC Legislative regular session (Jan-Jun 2007 and Jan-Jun 2008), there was only one public hearing in the House Constitutional Laws Subcommittee on the RTL Act of SC, on February 14, 2008, and no vote was even taken.
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SC State House News Conference - May 27, 2008:
(L-R)
- Mr. Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn
- Mr. Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life
- Miss Anne Rainville
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Columbia Christians for Life
P.O. Box 50358, Columbia, S.C. 29250 * (803) 765-0916 * http://www.christianslifeandliberty.net/
“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
NEWS CONFERENCE - Right to Life Act of South Carolina [H.3284/H.3697/S.313]
Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 11:45 AM: First Floor, SC State House, Columbia, SC
Statement by Steve Lefemine, dir. Columbia Christians for Life:
( Posted on "RTL Act of SC" page at: www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net )
Good morning, I am Steve Lefemine, director of Columbia Christians for Life. In 1998, 10 years ago, the Right to Life Act of SC was first filed in the SC Legislature, which if passed, would end abortion in our state. However, in 2008, after 10 years, the Republican SC Legislature continues to fail to ESTABLISH JUSTICE to Protect the Lives of Over 7,000 Pre-Birth Children Murdered Each Year in SC by Surgical Abortion.
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77b. Statement by Steve Lefemine, dir. Columbia Christians for Life
NEWS CONFERENCE - Right to Life Act of South Carolina [H. 3284/H.3697/S.313]
Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 11:45 AM: First Floor, SC State House, Columbia, SC
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SC State House News Conference - May 27, 2008:
(L-R)
- Mr. Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn
- Mr. Charles Butler, pastor, Souls Afire Baptist Church
- Mr. Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life
- Miss Anne Rainville
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HISTORY of "RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SOUTH CAROLINA" Personhood bill (1998-2008):
The Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill was first introduced in the SC House in Feb 1998 ( www.scstatehouse.net/sess112_1997-1998/bills/4558.htm ), and was also first introduced in the SC Senate in Feb 1998 ( www.scstatehouse.net/sess112_1997-1998/bills/1060.htm ).
The first public hearing was in 2001, when it failed at the House Subcommittee level. The next hearing was in 2004, when it passed the House Subcommittee, but then failed at the full House Judiciary Committee.
Legal Opinion (2005) of South Carolina Attorney General on the Right to Life Act of SC
"Accordingly, it is our opinion that the Right to Life Act is constitutional."
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/Westlaw_Document_15_03_35_5392471.doc
In April 2005, the bill (H.3213) passed the full SC House on Second Reading ( 95Y-18N ) for the first time on April 13, 2005 ( www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/hj05/20050413.htm ), albeit with a fatal flaw amendment to the bill, that established an "exception" to personhood, by allowing the use of an abortifacient (abortion-causing) pill in cases of rape. The bill passed on Third Reading ( 91Y-10N ) on April 14, 2005( www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/hj05/20050414.htm ). Any "exceptions" to legal "personhood" fatally undermine the legal concept of "personhood" as contained in the SC Constitution, and in the US Constitution, in the 5th and 14th Amendments. The bill (H.3213/S.111) was given two hearings in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee in May 2005 (for the first time on the SC Senate side), but no action was taken. No hearings or further action took place in the 2006 Session. The bill died in this Senate Judiciary Subcommittee after the two public hearings with no vote.
2005/2006 Session
Go to homepage of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ to hear these audio files of the testimony and discussion in committee meetings conducted in April/May 2005:
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 18, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Audio (36:09) - Public hearing, no debate or vote
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 4, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Audio (40:50) - Public hearing, no debate or vote
SC House Judiciary Committee, April 5, 2005 - H.3213
Audio (38:33) - Following debate, bill passed favorably by vote of 15 - 5 (roll call)
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm
The SC House (H.3284) and SC Senate (S.313) bills were re-filed in 2007, but no hearings took place in either the SC House or SC Senate in 2007.
During the entire 2007-2008 SC Legislative regular session (Jan-Jun 2007 and Jan-Jun 2008), there was only one public hearing in the House Constitutional Laws Subcommittee on the RTL Act of SC, on February 14, 2008, and no vote was even taken.
Public Hearing Statement in support of Right to Life Act of SC - Columbia, SC - Feb. 14, 2008 (Steve Lefemine)
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/public-hearing-statement-in-support-of.html
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster appeared before the Constitutional Laws Subcommittee, February 14, 2008, and reasserted that the Right to Life Act of South Carolina is constitutional, and that if applied to abortion, the outcome would be dependent upon the ruling of the US Supreme Court.
Go to homepage of www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net , click on "RTL Act of SC" page for postings on the history of the SC bill's progress since April 2005, and information on principled pro-life personhood legislation in other states:
2005 (2005-2006 SC legislative session)
Items # 1 thru # 18
2006 (2005-2006 SC legislative session)
Items # 19 thru # #26; and #28 thru #37
BATTLES IN OTHER STATES - OBSTRUCTION OF PERSONHOOD LEGISLATION BY NATIONAL RIGHT TO "LIFE" [sic] AND CATHOLIC BISHOPS:
Items # 27, #38 thru # 40
2007 (2007-2008 SC legislative session)
Items # 41 thru #49; and #52 thru #54; and #56 thru # 68
2008 (2007-2008 SC legislative session)
Items # 69 thru # 79
PERSONHOOD BATTLES IN OTHER STATES - plus new Personhood legislation in the US Senate:
- Pro-Abort McCain NOT a co-sponsor of S.3111 - see http://thomas.loc.gov !
- National Right to "Life" [sic] NOT supporting these Personhood Bills either !
Items #50, #51, and # 55; and # 80 thru # 83
Also, go to: http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
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From the very text of the Roe v. Wade decision - if "personhood" for the fetus is established (with no "exceptions") then the legal argument for abortion "collapses":
Right to Life Act of SC - news conference and "Jesus Christ is Lord of the Gates" pro-life rally - Jan. 17, 2006
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
In the very text of the Roe v. Wade US supreme Court decision it states, “[Texas] argue[s] that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment… If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” In other words, there never would have been legalized abortion under Roe v. Wade. But tragically, Texas had an “exception” which undermined their entire “personhood” argument. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: “[Footnote 54 ] When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. Despite broad proscription, an exception always exists… But if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother's condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the Amendment's command? ...”
Roe v. Wade
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 35 years ago. The issue of legal “Personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 35 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
"Personhood Song" - Artist: Tony Funderbunk (4:06 - audio link)
"Give an unborn baby personhood..."
www.coloradorighttolife.org/files/audio/personhood.mp3
2007 State-Level Bills Banning Abortions in Eight U.S. States
- AL, CO, GA, MT, ND, SC, TX, VA (16% of States in U.S.)
Revised and updated as of March 29, 2007
THE STATE OF COLORADO IS ACTUALLY VOTING FOR A PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT TO THE COLORADO STATE CONSTITUTION ON NOV. 4, 2008 !
VOTE "YES" FOR AMENDMENT 48 !
www.ColoradoForEqualRights.com/
To see that the Colorado state constitution is amended to include pre-born from the moment of fertilization as having their "personhood" clearly established, so that they may enjoy equal protection under the law. The term "Person" or "Persons" shall include any human from the time of fertilization.
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AMERICA - A NATION UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT.
Psalm 33:12; Proverb 14:34; Psalm 9:17; 2 Kings 24:1-4; Jeremiah 19:3-5; Psalm 106:37-42
Foreign invasion (10-20 Million Illegal Aliens) and War (Iraq) are divine consequences upon a nation, any nation, for the shedding of innocent blood (e.g., 2 Kings 24:1-4)...
George Mason, Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1787:
"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes nation sins, by national calamites."
America lost over 600,000 American lives in the War Between Americans (1861-1865) as a result of God's divine judgment UPON BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH for the national sin of America's institutionalized chattel slavery system.
Will America have to lose 600,000 (or proportionally more) lives to war or terrorist attack before our eyes are opened to seeing the connection between national sin and national calamity ???
Just as God is already bringing incrementally greater divine judgment (e.g., 9-11, War in Iraq, ongoing Foreign Invasion by 12-20 Million Illegal Aliens, USA Financial Crisis, etc., etc., etc.) upon America for our federal, state, and local government-protected, institutionalized system of child-murder-by-abortion in our approx. 750 abortion centers, and hospitals, and doctors offices, today... www.lifedynamics.com/DeathCamps/DeathCamps.cfm
Abortion is a national sin. 9-11 was a national calamity.
3,000 innocent people were killed on 9-11-001; 3,000 innocents are killed DAILY in America's 700+ abortion death camps - just a "coincidence" ? Or is God perhaps trying to get our attention so we will "Connect The Dots" !!?
What about the War of Terror being waged by abortion domestic terrorists against children in the womb in America !!?
God's 9-11 Message to America - Repent !
Flip Benham, OSA national director, September 10, 2002 press release (i.e., six years ago !)
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2007/09/columbia-christians-for-life-press.html
9 - 11 WILL WE CONNECT THE DOTS?
Flip Benham, OSA national director, September 4, 2002 article...
www.operationsaveamerica.org/articles/articles/wtc-anniversary.htm (i.e., six years ago !)
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2007/09/9-11-will-we-connect-dots.html
9 - 11 – WILL WE CONNECT THE DOTS?
www.operationsaveamerica.org/articles/articles/wtc-anniversary.htm
“He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."
Proverb 29:1, KJB
More and greater divine judgment is coming upon America for the national sin of child-murder-by-abortion (3,000 slaughtered unborn children PER DAY by surgical abortion alone) unless America repents of the shedding of innocent blood (STARTING with us Christians, for sins of committing abortions (including chemical abortions from birth control pills), and for sins of omitting to love our unborn neighbors enough to labor diligently to STOP abortions.) If you think that 9-11 is the most severe attack upon America that God will allow/cause, then you do not know history, the Bible, or God Himself, as He is truly revealed in the Word of God (all 66 books of the Bible !).
America will not survive as we presently know it . America will be destroyed, if we do not repent, of the national sin of child-murder-by-abortion, beginning with the Church. When the Christian church truly repents in America, one of the signs of that repentance will be an increased presence of born-again Christians, on-site, outside America's 700+ abortion death camps, crying out to God to stop the slaughter !
"If My people [Christians], which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [sins of commission and omission]; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation]."
2 Chronicles 7:14
FIFTH ANNUAL "REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT" OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE IN COLUMBIA, SC (since January 2003)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, South Steps, SC State House, Columbia, South Carolina
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-05.doc
"America repent"
"Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet"
www.myspace.com/timjuillet
(scroll down to song in player window in upper right of home page)
A message to Christian "blacks" and to Christian "whites" :
To Vote for Pro-Abort, Pro-Sodomite, Marxist, "Citizen of the World" Barack Obama, is to SIN AGAINST GOD.
To Vote for Pro-Abort, Pro-Sodomite, CFR Globalist-Socialist, John "McAmnesty" McCain, is to SIN AGAINST GOD.
Neither McCain nor Obama is a co-sponsor of S.3111 ( see http://thomas.loc.gov ) to end child-murder in America -
BOTH ARE SERVANTS - PUPPETS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER !
A Major Goal of the NWO is Global Population Reduction ( Georgia Guidestones - http://radioliberty.com/stones.htm )
ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement
Alex Jones' NWO ENDGAME video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1070329053600562261
Christians, demonstrate your repentance to God by not voting for Pro-Abort John McCain or Pro-Abort Barack Obama on November 4, 2008. There is a "pro-personhood" pro-life Christian constitutionalist for whom you can vote: Florida Baptist pastor and presidential candidate for the Constitution Party, Dr. Chuck Baldwin. http://baldwin08.com/ (assuming Skull and Bones Illuminati NWO puppet President George W. Bush doesn't declare a "National Emergency," suspend the U.S. Constitution, declare Martial Law, and suspend / postpone / cancel the November 4, 2008 elections !).
Dr. Chuck Baldwin has repeatedly, publicly, expressed his support of the "pro-personhood" pro-life position:
If I Were President
By Chuck Baldwin
May 2, 2008
www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2008/cbarchive_20080502.html
"Pro-Life" Candidates Should Put Up Or Shut Up
by Chuck Baldwin
November 30, 2007
www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20071130.html
Sanctity of Life Act - HR 2597, sponsored by Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)
Ending Pro-Abortion Judicial Tyranny
Article III, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution states: "The Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make."
www.prolifealliance.com/sanctity%20of%20life%20act.html
"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."
Psalm 94:15, KJB
No King but King Jesus! (Yeshua Messiah)
Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America’s Colonial Charters, State Constitutions, and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 765-0916
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
http://www.lefemineforlife.net/
October 20, 2008
REPUBLICAN*** SC LEGISLATURE Continues to Fail to ESTABLISH JUSTICE:
To Protect the Lives of Over 7,000 Pre-Birth Children Murdered Each Year in SC by Surgical Abortion !
Right to Life Act SC Personhood bill - TEN YEARS ! 1998-2008
Bill: H.3284/H.3697/S.313, the "Right to Life Act of SC" - Personhood bill - End Abortion in SC
H.3284
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm
H.3697
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3697.htm
S.313
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/313.htm
Where: SC State House
First Floor Lobby
Columbia, South Carolina
When: Tuesday, May 27, 2008, at 11:45 AM
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SC State House News Conference - May 27, 2008:
(L-R)
- Mr. Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn
- Mr. Charles Butler, pastor, Souls Afire Baptist Church
- Miss Anne Rainville
79. (Sign) - REPUBLICAN SC LEGISLATURE Continues to Fail to ESTABLISH JUSTICE:
To Protect the Lives of Over 7,000 Pre-Birth Children Murdered Each Year in SC by Abortion !
Right to Life Act of SC - TEN YEARS ! 1998-2008
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At the end of the regular 2008 SC Legislative session, and after TEN YEARS (1998-2008) since the bill was first filed, the REPUBLICAN*** SC LEGISLATURE Continues to Fail to ESTABLISH JUSTICE:
To Protect the Lives of Over 7,000 Pre-Birth Humans Murdered Each Year in SC by Surgical Abortion !
*** The Republicans have been in the majority in the SC House continuously since January 1995
The Republicans have been in the majority in the SC Senate continuously since January 2001
During the entire 2007-2008 SC Legislative regular session (Jan-Jun 2007 and Jan-Jun 2008), there was only one public hearing in the House Constitutional Laws Subcommittee on the RTL Act of SC, on February 14, 2008, and no vote was even taken.
__________________________________________________
SC State House News Conference - May 27, 2008:
(L-R)
- Mr. Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn
- Mr. Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life
- Miss Anne Rainville
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Columbia Christians for Life
P.O. Box 50358, Columbia, S.C. 29250 * (803) 765-0916 * http://www.christianslifeandliberty.net/
“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
NEWS CONFERENCE - Right to Life Act of South Carolina [H.3284/H.3697/S.313]
Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 11:45 AM: First Floor, SC State House, Columbia, SC
Statement by Steve Lefemine, dir. Columbia Christians for Life:
( Posted on "RTL Act of SC" page at: www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net )
Good morning, I am Steve Lefemine, director of Columbia Christians for Life. In 1998, 10 years ago, the Right to Life Act of SC was first filed in the SC Legislature, which if passed, would end abortion in our state. However, in 2008, after 10 years, the Republican SC Legislature continues to fail to ESTABLISH JUSTICE to Protect the Lives of Over 7,000 Pre-Birth Children Murdered Each Year in SC by Surgical Abortion.
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77b. Statement by Steve Lefemine, dir. Columbia Christians for Life
NEWS CONFERENCE - Right to Life Act of South Carolina [H. 3284/H.3697/S.313]
Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 11:45 AM: First Floor, SC State House, Columbia, SC
_________________________________________________
SC State House News Conference - May 27, 2008:
(L-R)
- Mr. Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn
- Mr. Charles Butler, pastor, Souls Afire Baptist Church
- Mr. Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life
- Miss Anne Rainville
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HISTORY of "RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SOUTH CAROLINA" Personhood bill (1998-2008):
The Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill was first introduced in the SC House in Feb 1998 ( www.scstatehouse.net/sess112_1997-1998/bills/4558.htm ), and was also first introduced in the SC Senate in Feb 1998 ( www.scstatehouse.net/sess112_1997-1998/bills/1060.htm ).
The first public hearing was in 2001, when it failed at the House Subcommittee level. The next hearing was in 2004, when it passed the House Subcommittee, but then failed at the full House Judiciary Committee.
Legal Opinion (2005) of South Carolina Attorney General on the Right to Life Act of SC
"Accordingly, it is our opinion that the Right to Life Act is constitutional."
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/Westlaw_Document_15_03_35_5392471.doc
In April 2005, the bill (H.3213) passed the full SC House on Second Reading ( 95Y-18N ) for the first time on April 13, 2005 ( www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/hj05/20050413.htm ), albeit with a fatal flaw amendment to the bill, that established an "exception" to personhood, by allowing the use of an abortifacient (abortion-causing) pill in cases of rape. The bill passed on Third Reading ( 91Y-10N ) on April 14, 2005( www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/hj05/20050414.htm ). Any "exceptions" to legal "personhood" fatally undermine the legal concept of "personhood" as contained in the SC Constitution, and in the US Constitution, in the 5th and 14th Amendments. The bill (H.3213/S.111) was given two hearings in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee in May 2005 (for the first time on the SC Senate side), but no action was taken. No hearings or further action took place in the 2006 Session. The bill died in this Senate Judiciary Subcommittee after the two public hearings with no vote.
2005/2006 Session
Go to homepage of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ to hear these audio files of the testimony and discussion in committee meetings conducted in April/May 2005:
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 18, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Audio (36:09) - Public hearing, no debate or vote
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 4, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Audio (40:50) - Public hearing, no debate or vote
SC House Judiciary Committee, April 5, 2005 - H.3213
Audio (38:33) - Following debate, bill passed favorably by vote of 15 - 5 (roll call)
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm
The SC House (H.3284) and SC Senate (S.313) bills were re-filed in 2007, but no hearings took place in either the SC House or SC Senate in 2007.
During the entire 2007-2008 SC Legislative regular session (Jan-Jun 2007 and Jan-Jun 2008), there was only one public hearing in the House Constitutional Laws Subcommittee on the RTL Act of SC, on February 14, 2008, and no vote was even taken.
Public Hearing Statement in support of Right to Life Act of SC - Columbia, SC - Feb. 14, 2008 (Steve Lefemine)
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/public-hearing-statement-in-support-of.html
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster appeared before the Constitutional Laws Subcommittee, February 14, 2008, and reasserted that the Right to Life Act of South Carolina is constitutional, and that if applied to abortion, the outcome would be dependent upon the ruling of the US Supreme Court.
Go to homepage of www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net , click on "RTL Act of SC" page for postings on the history of the SC bill's progress since April 2005, and information on principled pro-life personhood legislation in other states:
2005 (2005-2006 SC legislative session)
Items # 1 thru # 18
2006 (2005-2006 SC legislative session)
Items # 19 thru # #26; and #28 thru #37
BATTLES IN OTHER STATES - OBSTRUCTION OF PERSONHOOD LEGISLATION BY NATIONAL RIGHT TO "LIFE" [sic] AND CATHOLIC BISHOPS:
Items # 27, #38 thru # 40
2007 (2007-2008 SC legislative session)
Items # 41 thru #49; and #52 thru #54; and #56 thru # 68
2008 (2007-2008 SC legislative session)
Items # 69 thru # 79
PERSONHOOD BATTLES IN OTHER STATES - plus new Personhood legislation in the US Senate:
- Pro-Abort McCain NOT a co-sponsor of S.3111 - see http://thomas.loc.gov !
- National Right to "Life" [sic] NOT supporting these Personhood Bills either !
Items #50, #51, and # 55; and # 80 thru # 83
Also, go to: http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
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From the very text of the Roe v. Wade decision - if "personhood" for the fetus is established (with no "exceptions") then the legal argument for abortion "collapses":
Right to Life Act of SC - news conference and "Jesus Christ is Lord of the Gates" pro-life rally - Jan. 17, 2006
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
In the very text of the Roe v. Wade US supreme Court decision it states, “[Texas] argue[s] that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment… If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” In other words, there never would have been legalized abortion under Roe v. Wade. But tragically, Texas had an “exception” which undermined their entire “personhood” argument. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: “[Footnote 54 ] When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. Despite broad proscription, an exception always exists… But if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother's condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the Amendment's command? ...”
Roe v. Wade
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 35 years ago. The issue of legal “Personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 35 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
"Personhood Song" - Artist: Tony Funderbunk (4:06 - audio link)
"Give an unborn baby personhood..."
www.coloradorighttolife.org/files/audio/personhood.mp3
2007 State-Level Bills Banning Abortions in Eight U.S. States
- AL, CO, GA, MT, ND, SC, TX, VA (16% of States in U.S.)
Revised and updated as of March 29, 2007
THE STATE OF COLORADO IS ACTUALLY VOTING FOR A PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT TO THE COLORADO STATE CONSTITUTION ON NOV. 4, 2008 !
VOTE "YES" FOR AMENDMENT 48 !
www.ColoradoForEqualRights.com/
To see that the Colorado state constitution is amended to include pre-born from the moment of fertilization as having their "personhood" clearly established, so that they may enjoy equal protection under the law. The term "Person" or "Persons" shall include any human from the time of fertilization.
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AMERICA - A NATION UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT.
Psalm 33:12; Proverb 14:34; Psalm 9:17; 2 Kings 24:1-4; Jeremiah 19:3-5; Psalm 106:37-42
Foreign invasion (10-20 Million Illegal Aliens) and War (Iraq) are divine consequences upon a nation, any nation, for the shedding of innocent blood (e.g., 2 Kings 24:1-4)...
George Mason, Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1787:
"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes nation sins, by national calamites."
America lost over 600,000 American lives in the War Between Americans (1861-1865) as a result of God's divine judgment UPON BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH for the national sin of America's institutionalized chattel slavery system.
Will America have to lose 600,000 (or proportionally more) lives to war or terrorist attack before our eyes are opened to seeing the connection between national sin and national calamity ???
Just as God is already bringing incrementally greater divine judgment (e.g., 9-11, War in Iraq, ongoing Foreign Invasion by 12-20 Million Illegal Aliens, USA Financial Crisis, etc., etc., etc.) upon America for our federal, state, and local government-protected, institutionalized system of child-murder-by-abortion in our approx. 750 abortion centers, and hospitals, and doctors offices, today... www.lifedynamics.com/DeathCamps/DeathCamps.cfm
Abortion is a national sin. 9-11 was a national calamity.
3,000 innocent people were killed on 9-11-001; 3,000 innocents are killed DAILY in America's 700+ abortion death camps - just a "coincidence" ? Or is God perhaps trying to get our attention so we will "Connect The Dots" !!?
What about the War of Terror being waged by abortion domestic terrorists against children in the womb in America !!?
God's 9-11 Message to America - Repent !
Flip Benham, OSA national director, September 10, 2002 press release (i.e., six years ago !)
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2007/09/columbia-christians-for-life-press.html
9 - 11 WILL WE CONNECT THE DOTS?
Flip Benham, OSA national director, September 4, 2002 article...
www.operationsaveamerica.org/articles/articles/wtc-anniversary.htm (i.e., six years ago !)
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2007/09/9-11-will-we-connect-dots.html
9 - 11 – WILL WE CONNECT THE DOTS?
www.operationsaveamerica.org/articles/articles/wtc-anniversary.htm
“He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."
Proverb 29:1, KJB
More and greater divine judgment is coming upon America for the national sin of child-murder-by-abortion (3,000 slaughtered unborn children PER DAY by surgical abortion alone) unless America repents of the shedding of innocent blood (STARTING with us Christians, for sins of committing abortions (including chemical abortions from birth control pills), and for sins of omitting to love our unborn neighbors enough to labor diligently to STOP abortions.) If you think that 9-11 is the most severe attack upon America that God will allow/cause, then you do not know history, the Bible, or God Himself, as He is truly revealed in the Word of God (all 66 books of the Bible !).
America will not survive as we presently know it . America will be destroyed, if we do not repent, of the national sin of child-murder-by-abortion, beginning with the Church. When the Christian church truly repents in America, one of the signs of that repentance will be an increased presence of born-again Christians, on-site, outside America's 700+ abortion death camps, crying out to God to stop the slaughter !
"If My people [Christians], which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [sins of commission and omission]; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation]."
2 Chronicles 7:14
FIFTH ANNUAL "REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT" OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE IN COLUMBIA, SC (since January 2003)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, South Steps, SC State House, Columbia, South Carolina
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-05.doc
"America repent"
"Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet"
www.myspace.com/timjuillet
(scroll down to song in player window in upper right of home page)
A message to Christian "blacks" and to Christian "whites" :
To Vote for Pro-Abort, Pro-Sodomite, Marxist, "Citizen of the World" Barack Obama, is to SIN AGAINST GOD.
To Vote for Pro-Abort, Pro-Sodomite, CFR Globalist-Socialist, John "McAmnesty" McCain, is to SIN AGAINST GOD.
Neither McCain nor Obama is a co-sponsor of S.3111 ( see http://thomas.loc.gov ) to end child-murder in America -
BOTH ARE SERVANTS - PUPPETS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER !
A Major Goal of the NWO is Global Population Reduction ( Georgia Guidestones - http://radioliberty.com/stones.htm )
ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement
Alex Jones' NWO ENDGAME video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1070329053600562261
Christians, demonstrate your repentance to God by not voting for Pro-Abort John McCain or Pro-Abort Barack Obama on November 4, 2008. There is a "pro-personhood" pro-life Christian constitutionalist for whom you can vote: Florida Baptist pastor and presidential candidate for the Constitution Party, Dr. Chuck Baldwin. http://baldwin08.com/ (assuming Skull and Bones Illuminati NWO puppet President George W. Bush doesn't declare a "National Emergency," suspend the U.S. Constitution, declare Martial Law, and suspend / postpone / cancel the November 4, 2008 elections !).
Dr. Chuck Baldwin has repeatedly, publicly, expressed his support of the "pro-personhood" pro-life position:
If I Were President
By Chuck Baldwin
May 2, 2008
www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2008/cbarchive_20080502.html
"Pro-Life" Candidates Should Put Up Or Shut Up
by Chuck Baldwin
November 30, 2007
www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20071130.html
Sanctity of Life Act - HR 2597, sponsored by Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)
Ending Pro-Abortion Judicial Tyranny
Article III, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution states: "The Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make."
www.prolifealliance.com/sanctity%20of%20life%20act.html
"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."
Psalm 94:15, KJB
No King but King Jesus! (Yeshua Messiah)
Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America’s Colonial Charters, State Constitutions, and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 765-0916
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
http://www.lefemineforlife.net/
October 20, 2008
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