Amendment 62 (Fetal Personhood)
Votes Percentage
No 1,142,075 71%
Yes 477,634 29%
Totals 1,597,205 100%
Results via 9News.com
Last Updated: 11/03/2010 01:07pm
Amendment 62: Definition of Person
www.9news.com/news/elections/results/2010/results.aspx?racetype=BallotInitiatives&raceid=63
Voter turnout: 1,619,709/3,282,855 (49%)
Precincts reporting: 3208/3246 (99%)
Read and download the complete report here.
November 03, 2010
October 26, 2010
Colorado Personhood Amendment supporter, 3rd party candidate, Tom Tancredo nearly tied for lead in CO Governor race
Amendment 62, the Colorado Personhood Amendment is the only personhood amendment in the country on the ballot on November 2, 2010.
Two years ago, on the November 4, 2008 ballot, the Colorado Personhood Amendment received over 26% of the vote (over 585,000 votes) in support of legal personhood for pre-born human beings.
Read and download the complete report here.
Two years ago, on the November 4, 2008 ballot, the Colorado Personhood Amendment received over 26% of the vote (over 585,000 votes) in support of legal personhood for pre-born human beings.
Read and download the complete report here.
October 20, 2010
Romanist Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum Opposes Colorado Personhood Amendment
Dame of Malta, Phyllis Schlafly of the Roman Catholic Establishment is yet another prominent Roman Catholic voice against recognizing now, the God-given, unalienable right to life of every human being as a "Person" beginning at fertilization, in State statutory or constitutional law. Multiple States over the years have been pursuing this principled pro-life effort to END "abortion" in America.
The three major enemies of State-level personhood amendments to END "abortion" in America are:
1) ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS [ appointed by the Pope ]
2) NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE, and
3) AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE.
Perhaps the # 4 major enemy of State-level personhood amendments to END "abortion" in America is:
4) EAGLE FORUM
Read and download the complete report here.
The three major enemies of State-level personhood amendments to END "abortion" in America are:
1) ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS [ appointed by the Pope ]
2) NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE, and
3) AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE.
Perhaps the # 4 major enemy of State-level personhood amendments to END "abortion" in America is:
4) EAGLE FORUM
Read and download the complete report here.
August 02, 2010
Letter to the Editor: Woodard wrong, Catholic Sheheen No Conservative on “Abortion”
In the headline article in the July 28 issue of The Times Examiner, it states: “On social issues Sheheen is a conservative [sic]. Sheheen is Catholic, and if he takes his church’s view on abortion, stem cell research, gay [sic] marriage [sic] and euthanasia, “”he will be a very formidable candidate,” Woodard said.”
This description of pro-abort SC State Senator Vincent Sheheen (D) attributed to Dr. David Woodard, a professor of political science at Clemson University, is demonstrably false vis-à-vis the “abortion” issue.
Pro-abortion Senator Vincent Sheheen did not vote against selected taxpayer-funded abortions in the SC State Health Insurance Plan this past legislative session on April 28, 2010, and has never been a co-sponsor of the SC Personhood Bill, which if passed would recognize the God-given, unalienable right to life of every human being as a “person” beginning at fertilization, in SC law. Representative Sheheen did not co-sponsor the SC Personhood Bill when he was in the SC House 2001-2004, despite the SC Personhood Bill being active in the SC House ever year since 1998, and Senator Sheheen has not co-sponsored the SC Personhood Bill since 2004 when he has been in the SC Senate, despite the SC Personhood Bill being continuously active in the SC Senate 2005-2010 (and in 1998). Democrat Senator Sheheen is not a co-sponsor of the SC Personhood Bill (S.450) now (S.450 has 23 Senate co-sponsors).
Furthermore, Sheheen was actually a member of the Judiciary Subcommittee which held the SC Personhood bill in 2008 (S.313), and the bill went nowhere, it did not even have a subcommittee hearing.
On April 28, 2010, Christian pro-life Senator David Thomas (R) introduced Amendment No. 75 to the 2010-2011 SC State Budget banning all abortion-funding for rape and incest abortions in the SC State Health Insurance Plan, and also banning all abortion-funding for life of the mother abortions, except where the “termination of the pregnancy is incidental to the lifesaving intervention” and also stating “The physician shall act in accordance with the standard of care to preserve both [emphasis added] the life of the mother and the life of the pre-born child.” The Republican-majority SC Senate tabled this pro-life, anti-abortion-funding amendment, by a vote of 24-17, and Democrat pro-abort Senator Vincent Sheheen did not even vote, despite the fact that the SC Senate Journal for April 28 shows that he was present, voting, and speaking earlier in the session that day, and is not recorded as requesting a leave of absence.
Legislators who are AWOL on the chief moral, civil rights issue of the day in South Carolina and America, i.e., the murder of judicially innocent human beings in the wombs of their mothers (approx. 7,000 murdered each year in South Carolina; well over 300,000 since 1973), are NOT “Conservative on Social Issues” – and unfortunately, that includes pro-abortion Democrat gubernatorial candidate SC Senator Vincent Sheheen.
For further details and documentation, go to the home page of the Columbia Christians for Life website: ChristianLifeandLiberty.net, and then also to the “RTL Act of SC” page, and then to Items # 140. and # 141. For further information, e-mail CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net.
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC 29250
803-794-6273
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
August 2, 2010 / Corrected August 4, 2010
Click here to download a printable version of this editorial.
This description of pro-abort SC State Senator Vincent Sheheen (D) attributed to Dr. David Woodard, a professor of political science at Clemson University, is demonstrably false vis-à-vis the “abortion” issue.
Pro-abortion Senator Vincent Sheheen did not vote against selected taxpayer-funded abortions in the SC State Health Insurance Plan this past legislative session on April 28, 2010, and has never been a co-sponsor of the SC Personhood Bill, which if passed would recognize the God-given, unalienable right to life of every human being as a “person” beginning at fertilization, in SC law. Representative Sheheen did not co-sponsor the SC Personhood Bill when he was in the SC House 2001-2004, despite the SC Personhood Bill being active in the SC House ever year since 1998, and Senator Sheheen has not co-sponsored the SC Personhood Bill since 2004 when he has been in the SC Senate, despite the SC Personhood Bill being continuously active in the SC Senate 2005-2010 (and in 1998). Democrat Senator Sheheen is not a co-sponsor of the SC Personhood Bill (S.450) now (S.450 has 23 Senate co-sponsors).
Furthermore, Sheheen was actually a member of the Judiciary Subcommittee which held the SC Personhood bill in 2008 (S.313), and the bill went nowhere, it did not even have a subcommittee hearing.
On April 28, 2010, Christian pro-life Senator David Thomas (R) introduced Amendment No. 75 to the 2010-2011 SC State Budget banning all abortion-funding for rape and incest abortions in the SC State Health Insurance Plan, and also banning all abortion-funding for life of the mother abortions, except where the “termination of the pregnancy is incidental to the lifesaving intervention” and also stating “The physician shall act in accordance with the standard of care to preserve both [emphasis added] the life of the mother and the life of the pre-born child.” The Republican-majority SC Senate tabled this pro-life, anti-abortion-funding amendment, by a vote of 24-17, and Democrat pro-abort Senator Vincent Sheheen did not even vote, despite the fact that the SC Senate Journal for April 28 shows that he was present, voting, and speaking earlier in the session that day, and is not recorded as requesting a leave of absence.
Legislators who are AWOL on the chief moral, civil rights issue of the day in South Carolina and America, i.e., the murder of judicially innocent human beings in the wombs of their mothers (approx. 7,000 murdered each year in South Carolina; well over 300,000 since 1973), are NOT “Conservative on Social Issues” – and unfortunately, that includes pro-abortion Democrat gubernatorial candidate SC Senator Vincent Sheheen.
For further details and documentation, go to the home page of the Columbia Christians for Life website: ChristianLifeandLiberty.net, and then also to the “RTL Act of SC” page, and then to Items # 140. and # 141. For further information, e-mail CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net.
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC 29250
803-794-6273
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
August 2, 2010 / Corrected August 4, 2010
Click here to download a printable version of this editorial.
July 26, 2010
National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) originally founded in 1968 under the auspices of the National Conference of [ Roman ] Catholic Bishops (NCCB)
K.M. Cassidy. "Right to Life." In Dictionary of Christianity in America, Coordinating Editor, Daniel G. Reid.
Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVaristy Press, 1990. pp. 1017,1018.
"The Supreme Court decision of January 22, 1973, overthrowing all existing abortion laws, led to an enormous growth in the movement. The National Right to Life Committee which had been founded in 1968 under the auspices of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, in 1973 became autonomous and non-sectarian. It is the largest and most influential national organization, with well over two thousand local affiliates by the 1980s."
[ emphasis added / asterisks noting related articles not included ]
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Entire article:
[ emphasis added ]
Right to Life. A movement opposed to the taking of innocent human life at any time from conception to natural death. The term pro-life is often used as well. Arising as a reaction to the movement for liberalized abortion, the first permanent group was founded in New York in 1966. From early on, however, Right to Life groups were concerned with the question of euthanasia as well and came to devote more of their energies to this subject during the 1980s.
The Supreme Court decision of January 22, 1973, overthrowing all existing abortion laws, led to an enormous growth in the movement. The National Right to Life Committee which had been founded in 1968 under the auspices of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, in 1973 became autonomous and non-sectarian. It is the largest and most influential national organization, with well over two thousand local affiliates by the 1980s. A large number of other groups appeared as well, many the product of splits within the movement over strategy and tactics ( e.g., American Life Lobby, Pro-Life Action League ) and others appealing to specific constituencies ( e.g., National Youth ProLife Coalition, Feminists for Life, Lutherans for Life ). The movement is diverse, its members representing a wide range of religious and political viewpoints, and is monolithic only in its rejection of killing the innocent.
While the Right to Life movement from its beginning has had members of a variety of religions, it was initially heavily Roman Catholic in composition. The later 1970s saw a huge influx of evangelical Protestants and this helped propel it to new prominence and political impact. The movement developed in Canada as well. The Alliance for Life was founded in 1968 and by the 1980s represented over two hundred local affiliates.
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Georgia voters in 46 Counties say "Yes" to State Constitution Personhood Amendment
- Non-binding "party" question on 46 counties' local party ballots
"Select metro counties throughout Georgia placed the following question on their respective ballots:
“Do you support an amendment to the Georgia State Constitution so as to provide that the paramount right to life is vested in each human being from their earliest biological beginning until natural death?” "
www.personhoodusa.com/press-release/georgia-voters-say-yes-personhood-amendment
"In all 46 counties where the amendment was presented, it passed overwhelmingly by an amazing 75 % !"
www.christiannewswire.com/news/391914486.html
Read and download the complete report here.
"Select metro counties throughout Georgia placed the following question on their respective ballots:
“Do you support an amendment to the Georgia State Constitution so as to provide that the paramount right to life is vested in each human being from their earliest biological beginning until natural death?” "
www.personhoodusa.com/press-release/georgia-voters-say-yes-personhood-amendment
"In all 46 counties where the amendment was presented, it passed overwhelmingly by an amazing 75 % !"
www.christiannewswire.com/news/391914486.html
Read and download the complete report here.
July 25, 2010
Montana Personhood Amendment initiative collected insufficient petition signatures for Nov. 2010 ballot
- plans to try again for Nov. 2012
Montana Constitutional Initiative No. 102 (CI-102)
http://sos.mt.gov/elections/archives/2010s/2010/initiatives/CI-102.asp
Insufficient Signatures as of Final July 16 Deadline
The deadline for final submission by the counties of verified petition signatures was July 16, 2010.
Ballot Issue #4 CI-102 (Status current as of 7/25/2010)
Subject: Right to Life - Constitutionally define a "person" – Proposal #2
Sponsor: Dr. Annie Bukacek, Montana ProLife Coalition
Type: Constitutional amendment by initiative
Status: Insufficient signatures; 32,398 signatures, 17 of 40 qualified house districts.
http://sos.mt.gov/elections/archives/2010s/2010/Proposed_Ballot_Issues.asp
Read the complete report here.
Montana Constitutional Initiative No. 102 (CI-102)
http://sos.mt.gov/elections/archives/2010s/2010/initiatives/CI-102.asp
Insufficient Signatures as of Final July 16 Deadline
The deadline for final submission by the counties of verified petition signatures was July 16, 2010.
Ballot Issue #4 CI-102 (Status current as of 7/25/2010)
Subject: Right to Life - Constitutionally define a "person" – Proposal #2
Sponsor: Dr. Annie Bukacek, Montana ProLife Coalition
Type: Constitutional amendment by initiative
Status: Insufficient signatures; 32,398 signatures, 17 of 40 qualified house districts.
http://sos.mt.gov/elections/archives/2010s/2010/Proposed_Ballot_Issues.asp
Read the complete report here.
June 28, 2010
SC's Palmetto Family Council advised by CFR / Jesuit-advised Americans United for Life on passage of 24-hour abortion bill
"Wait 24 hours, AND THEN YOU CAN KILL THE BABY"
"Palmetto Family also thanked ... Americans United for Life (AUL) for their guidance."
"The conference committee language with the waiting period had the support of South Carolina Citizens for Life, the National Right to Life Committee, the South Carolina Baptist Convention and the Palmetto Family Council."
- Romanist Americans United for Life, like National Right to Life is one of Rome's "pro-life" [sic] front organizations.
- Ecumenical Palmetto Family Council is the South Carolina affiliate of ecumenical Focus on the Family.
- Ecumenical SC Citizens for Life is the South Carolina chapter of Romanist National Right to Life.
- Ecumenical SC Baptist Convention is the South Carolina member of the ecumenical Southern Baptist Convention .
Palmetto Family Council received active advisory assistance and support from CFR / Jesuit-advisedAmericans United for "Life" [sic], whose senior legal counsel, Clarke Forsythe, has directly attacked the personhood position posted on the Columbia Christians for Life website to end "abortion". Clarke Forsythe's written attack is posted on National Review Online and LifeNews.com. So we have a CFR / Jesuit-advised Vatican "pro-life" [front] organization opposed to State-level personhood legislation to END "abortion", advising the ecumenical Palmetto Family Council. We are not only combating the obvious pro-abortion enemies of God's gift of the sanctity of human life, we are also and especially combating Rome to end "abortion" in America.
God's Requirement for MURDER is Justice, not incremental regulation ! Pass personhood now.
Read and download the complete report here.
"Palmetto Family also thanked ... Americans United for Life (AUL) for their guidance."
"The conference committee language with the waiting period had the support of South Carolina Citizens for Life, the National Right to Life Committee, the South Carolina Baptist Convention and the Palmetto Family Council."
- Romanist Americans United for Life, like National Right to Life is one of Rome's "pro-life" [sic] front organizations.
- Ecumenical Palmetto Family Council is the South Carolina affiliate of ecumenical Focus on the Family.
- Ecumenical SC Citizens for Life is the South Carolina chapter of Romanist National Right to Life.
- Ecumenical SC Baptist Convention is the South Carolina member of the ecumenical Southern Baptist Convention .
Palmetto Family Council received active advisory assistance and support from CFR / Jesuit-advisedAmericans United for "Life" [sic], whose senior legal counsel, Clarke Forsythe, has directly attacked the personhood position posted on the Columbia Christians for Life website to end "abortion". Clarke Forsythe's written attack is posted on National Review Online and LifeNews.com. So we have a CFR / Jesuit-advised Vatican "pro-life" [front] organization opposed to State-level personhood legislation to END "abortion", advising the ecumenical Palmetto Family Council. We are not only combating the obvious pro-abortion enemies of God's gift of the sanctity of human life, we are also and especially combating Rome to end "abortion" in America.
God's Requirement for MURDER is Justice, not incremental regulation ! Pass personhood now.
Read and download the complete report here.
June 23, 2010
ARTL Criticizes Rival National Right To Life
DENVER, June 23 / PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Right To Life Action, the political 527 group which claims a role in derailing Mitt Romney's presidential hopes, is now publishing a critical profile of the National Right To Life Committee. American RTL's anticipated dossier of its rival arrives simultaneously with National RTL's annual convention this weekend in Pittsburgh.
http://prolifeprofiles.com/
http://prolifeprofiles.com/
June 21, 2010
Personhood top legislative priority for Richard Cash for Congress, 3rd District (SC)
Richard Cash:
"... the personhood of the unborn child must be established beginning at the moment of conception."
Anderson County Republican Party
Congressional Candidate Debate
Anderson University, Anderson, SC
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Richard Cash for Congress
Candidate for US Congress, 3rd District SC
www.youtube.com/user/liamoweny#p/u/5/ARKty3G8NCc (debate footage)
Video (1:28)
Richard Cash:
" ... I would introduce a bill to say that personhood begins at conception."
"Folks, obviously the right to life is the first and foremost right that any person has."
"It's the first responsibility of government to defend the nation [ from ] foreign enemies, and to establish justice at home. And that is why the personhood of the unborn child must be established beginning at the moment of conception. Thank you very much [ audience applause ].
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Independent-Mail (Anderson, SC)
Republican candidates stress need to watch spending
www.independentmail.com/news/2010/apr/06/republican-candidates-stress-need-watch-spending/
Posted April 6, 2010
[ emphasis added ]
Four of five Republican candidates running for South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District seat say their first piece of legislation would be about watching the money, while another says he would take aim at defining the beginning of “personhood.”
Those candidates ice-cream-truck businessman Richard Cash, state Rep. Rex Rice, attorney Neal Collins, Dr. Mike Vasovski and state Rep. Jeff Duncan offered their priorities Tuesday night during a debate hosted by the Anderson County Republican Party. Aside from discussing their first wished-for bills, they all said that jobs to the district is crucial among priorities for the next congressman.
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[ Richard ] Cash, who spent eight years working with Pastors for Life, said he would first introduce a bill “that says personhood begins at conception.” He got an ovation from the crowd gathered in Henderson Auditorium at Anderson University.
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© 2010 Anderson Independent Mail. All rights reserved.
"... the personhood of the unborn child must be established beginning at the moment of conception."
Anderson County Republican Party
Congressional Candidate Debate
Anderson University, Anderson, SC
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Richard Cash for Congress
Candidate for US Congress, 3rd District SC
www.youtube.com/user/liamoweny#p/u/5/ARKty3G8NCc (debate footage)
Video (1:28)
Richard Cash:
" ... I would introduce a bill to say that personhood begins at conception."
"Folks, obviously the right to life is the first and foremost right that any person has."
"It's the first responsibility of government to defend the nation [ from ] foreign enemies, and to establish justice at home. And that is why the personhood of the unborn child must be established beginning at the moment of conception. Thank you very much [ audience applause ].
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Independent-Mail (Anderson, SC)
Republican candidates stress need to watch spending
www.independentmail.com/news/2010/apr/06/republican-candidates-stress-need-watch-spending/
Posted April 6, 2010
[ emphasis added ]
Four of five Republican candidates running for South Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District seat say their first piece of legislation would be about watching the money, while another says he would take aim at defining the beginning of “personhood.”
Those candidates ice-cream-truck businessman Richard Cash, state Rep. Rex Rice, attorney Neal Collins, Dr. Mike Vasovski and state Rep. Jeff Duncan offered their priorities Tuesday night during a debate hosted by the Anderson County Republican Party. Aside from discussing their first wished-for bills, they all said that jobs to the district is crucial among priorities for the next congressman.
continued...
[ Richard ] Cash, who spent eight years working with Pastors for Life, said he would first introduce a bill “that says personhood begins at conception.” He got an ovation from the crowd gathered in Henderson Auditorium at Anderson University.
continued...
© 2010 Anderson Independent Mail. All rights reserved.
June 18, 2010
Montana chapter of Rome's National Right to Life also opposes Montana Personhood Constitutional Amendment ballot initiative
Bible-believing Christian and other principled pro-personhood pro-lifers:
- PLEASE DO NOT HEED THE FALSE COUNSEL of ROME'S ENEMIES OF STATE PERSONHOOD BILLS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS:
- These are the three principal Romanist enemies of the many efforts to recognize the God-given, unalienable right to life of every human being as a "person" beginning at fertilization, in State Constitutional and/or Statutory law:
1) ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS [ appointed by the Pope ]
2) NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE, and
3) AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE.
June 18, 2010 / Corrected and Revised June 27, 2010
Read and download the complete report here.
- PLEASE DO NOT HEED THE FALSE COUNSEL of ROME'S ENEMIES OF STATE PERSONHOOD BILLS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS:
- These are the three principal Romanist enemies of the many efforts to recognize the God-given, unalienable right to life of every human being as a "person" beginning at fertilization, in State Constitutional and/or Statutory law:
1) ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS [ appointed by the Pope ]
2) NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE, and
3) AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE.
June 18, 2010 / Corrected and Revised June 27, 2010
Read and download the complete report here.
June 17, 2010
CFR / Jesuit-advised Americans United for Life praises (yet another) bill passed by SC Legislature regulating child-murder
( H.3245 – “Wait 24 hours, AND THEN YOU CAN KILL THE BABY” )
Vatican / Jesuit "pro-life" [sic] front organization, Americans United for Life, reports
actively advising and supporting the SC affiliate of ecumenical Focus on the Family,
the Palmetto Family Council:
"AUL actively advised and supported South Carolina’s Palmetto Family Council on the passage of this bill."
www.aul.org/2010/06/south-carolina-legislature-acts-to-protect-women-from-the-harms-of-abortion/
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
June 17, 2010 / Revised and Corrected June 22, 2010
God's Requirement for Murder is JUSTICE, not perpetual, incremental "regulation" !!!
Please click here for the complete report.
Vatican / Jesuit "pro-life" [sic] front organization, Americans United for Life, reports
actively advising and supporting the SC affiliate of ecumenical Focus on the Family,
the Palmetto Family Council:
"AUL actively advised and supported South Carolina’s Palmetto Family Council on the passage of this bill."
www.aul.org/2010/06/south-carolina-legislature-acts-to-protect-women-from-the-harms-of-abortion/
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
June 17, 2010 / Revised and Corrected June 22, 2010
God's Requirement for Murder is JUSTICE, not perpetual, incremental "regulation" !!!
Please click here for the complete report.
Covenant News - South Carolina Republicans Show They Can Kill Babies Better Than Democrats
CovenantNews.com
Pro-Life News
God hates hands that shed innocent blood.
South Carolina Republicans Show They Can Kill Babies Better Than Democrats
www.covenantnews.com/abortion/archives/070355.html
(A Republican Party murdered baby is a state regulated "clean kill")
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The South Carolina Legislature has approved a compromise on an abortion bill after House Republicans dropped a provision requiring women to make two trips to the clinic. It expands women's wait period from one hour to a day after receiving information on the procedure. But it no longer ties the clock to an ultrasound at the abortion clinic, as House GOP members insisted. The House and Senate voted late Wednesday to adopt the agreement.
Click Here For The Full Story......
www.wistv.com/global/story.asp?s=12663323
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From Columbia Christians for Life:
SOUTH CAROLINA'S REPUBLICAN-MAJORITY LEGISLATURE APPROVES YET ANOTHER INCREMENTAL, CHILD-MURDER-BY-"ABORTION" REGULATION BILL.
The Associated Press reported:
Posted: Jun 16, 2010 11:54 PM EDT
[emphasis added]
"Democrats applauded the bill's seeming demise two weeks ago, saying the two-trip requirement would be a burden, especially on poor women in rural areas."
"Women still must wait an hour at the clinic after their ultrasound. But they can download time-stamped material from a state Web site to meet the 24-hour rule."
www.wistv.com/global/story.asp?s=12663323
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APPROXIMATELY 7,000+ PRE-BORN CHILDREN ARE MURDERED IN SOUTH CAROLINA EACH YEAR BY SURGICAL ABORTION ALONE, PRIMARILY (THOUGH NOT SOLELY) AT SOUTH CAROLINA'S THREE CHILD-MURDER CENTERS IN GREENVILLE, COLUMBIA, AND CHARLESTON.
[ The number killed by early abortion-causing so-called "birth control" (e.g., "birth control" pills, I.U.D., Depo-Provera, ad nauseam, is estimated to be at perhaps 2-3 times the number of surgical "abortions". ]
H.3245
www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/3245.htm
So now as long as abortion-minded mothers obtain materials 24 hours ahead of time, they can show up at the abortion mill, and have their baby killed one hour later.
Wait 24 hours after obtaining printed materials, wait an hour after arrival at the abortion mill, AND THEN YOU CAN KILL THE BABY.
Is this what passes as "pro-life" legislation in June 2010, after over 37 years, and after over 51 MILLION dead children (by surgical abortion alone) since the unconstitutional 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which according to Article VI. of the United StatesConstitution is NOT "the supreme Law of the Land", but which, tragically, is treated as if it is ?
God's Requirement for Murder is JUSTICE, not perpetual, incremental "regulation" !!!
The SC Personhood Bill (H.3526, S.450) recognizes the God-given, unalienable right to life of every human being as a "person" beginning at fertilization, in SC statutory law.
In the 12 years since the legislation was first introduced in the SC House and SC Senate in 1998, it has passed the SC House only one time in April 2005 (albeit with a fatal flaw amendment allowing a woman who had been raped to be given an abortifacient drug), and has never passed the SC Senate. On April 13, 2010, S.450 was voted down on a Recall vote in the Republican-Majority SC Senate by a vote of 24-18, after Senator Jake Knotts (R-Lexington) had refused to even grant a public hearing for S.450 in the Judiciary Subcommittee which he chaired, assigned to him by Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), Senate Judiciary Committee chairman (and SC Senate President Pro Tempore).
The SC Republican-Majority Legislature (House and Senate) is perpetuating "abortion" by supporting the incremental, "abortion"/murder regulation bills advocated by the SC chapter of National Right to Life (SC Citizens for Life), the Palmetto Family Council (SC affiliate of Focus on the Family), and the lobbying representation (Office of Public Policy) of the South Carolina Baptist Convention (Southern Baptist) - NONE of whom support the SC Personhood Bill (H.3526, S.450) designed to END "abortion".
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"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."
Psalm 94:15, KJB
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ)
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 794-6273
Columbia Christians for Life
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net, Home page and "RTL Act of SC" page
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
June 17, 2010
Please click here for a printable version of this report.
Pro-Life News
God hates hands that shed innocent blood.
South Carolina Republicans Show They Can Kill Babies Better Than Democrats
www.covenantnews.com/abortion/archives/070355.html
(A Republican Party murdered baby is a state regulated "clean kill")
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The South Carolina Legislature has approved a compromise on an abortion bill after House Republicans dropped a provision requiring women to make two trips to the clinic. It expands women's wait period from one hour to a day after receiving information on the procedure. But it no longer ties the clock to an ultrasound at the abortion clinic, as House GOP members insisted. The House and Senate voted late Wednesday to adopt the agreement.
Click Here For The Full Story......
www.wistv.com/global/story.asp?s=12663323
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From Columbia Christians for Life:
SOUTH CAROLINA'S REPUBLICAN-MAJORITY LEGISLATURE APPROVES YET ANOTHER INCREMENTAL, CHILD-MURDER-BY-"ABORTION" REGULATION BILL.
The Associated Press reported:
Posted: Jun 16, 2010 11:54 PM EDT
[emphasis added]
"Democrats applauded the bill's seeming demise two weeks ago, saying the two-trip requirement would be a burden, especially on poor women in rural areas."
"Women still must wait an hour at the clinic after their ultrasound. But they can download time-stamped material from a state Web site to meet the 24-hour rule."
www.wistv.com/global/story.asp?s=12663323
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APPROXIMATELY 7,000+ PRE-BORN CHILDREN ARE MURDERED IN SOUTH CAROLINA EACH YEAR BY SURGICAL ABORTION ALONE, PRIMARILY (THOUGH NOT SOLELY) AT SOUTH CAROLINA'S THREE CHILD-MURDER CENTERS IN GREENVILLE, COLUMBIA, AND CHARLESTON.
[ The number killed by early abortion-causing so-called "birth control" (e.g., "birth control" pills, I.U.D., Depo-Provera, ad nauseam, is estimated to be at perhaps 2-3 times the number of surgical "abortions". ]
H.3245
www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/3245.htm
So now as long as abortion-minded mothers obtain materials 24 hours ahead of time, they can show up at the abortion mill, and have their baby killed one hour later.
Wait 24 hours after obtaining printed materials, wait an hour after arrival at the abortion mill, AND THEN YOU CAN KILL THE BABY.
Is this what passes as "pro-life" legislation in June 2010, after over 37 years, and after over 51 MILLION dead children (by surgical abortion alone) since the unconstitutional 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which according to Article VI. of the United StatesConstitution is NOT "the supreme Law of the Land", but which, tragically, is treated as if it is ?
God's Requirement for Murder is JUSTICE, not perpetual, incremental "regulation" !!!
The SC Personhood Bill (H.3526, S.450) recognizes the God-given, unalienable right to life of every human being as a "person" beginning at fertilization, in SC statutory law.
In the 12 years since the legislation was first introduced in the SC House and SC Senate in 1998, it has passed the SC House only one time in April 2005 (albeit with a fatal flaw amendment allowing a woman who had been raped to be given an abortifacient drug), and has never passed the SC Senate. On April 13, 2010, S.450 was voted down on a Recall vote in the Republican-Majority SC Senate by a vote of 24-18, after Senator Jake Knotts (R-Lexington) had refused to even grant a public hearing for S.450 in the Judiciary Subcommittee which he chaired, assigned to him by Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), Senate Judiciary Committee chairman (and SC Senate President Pro Tempore).
The SC Republican-Majority Legislature (House and Senate) is perpetuating "abortion" by supporting the incremental, "abortion"/murder regulation bills advocated by the SC chapter of National Right to Life (SC Citizens for Life), the Palmetto Family Council (SC affiliate of Focus on the Family), and the lobbying representation (Office of Public Policy) of the South Carolina Baptist Convention (Southern Baptist) - NONE of whom support the SC Personhood Bill (H.3526, S.450) designed to END "abortion".
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"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."
Psalm 94:15, KJB
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ)
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 794-6273
Columbia Christians for Life
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net, Home page and "RTL Act of SC" page
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
June 17, 2010
Please click here for a printable version of this report.
June 14, 2010
2010-2011 SC STATE BUDGET (H. 4657) - Passes House 64-54; Passes Senate 22-16
- Selected Abortion-Funding State Budget passes Republican-Majority SC House - June 3, 2010 - Yeas 64; Nays 54
YEAS - 62 Republicans ( 85% of 73 ), 2 Democrats
NAYS - 6 Republicans ( 8% of 73 ), 48 Democrats
- Selected Abortion-Funding State Budget passes Republican-Majority SC Senate - June 3, 2010 - Ayes 22; Nays 16
AYES - 11 Republicans ( 41% of 27 ), 11 Democrats
NAYS - 12 Republicans ( 44% of 27 ), 4 Democrats [ plus Sen. Ryberg (R) - 13 Republicans ( 48% of 27)
Please click here for the complete report.
YEAS - 62 Republicans ( 85% of 73 ), 2 Democrats
NAYS - 6 Republicans ( 8% of 73 ), 48 Democrats
- Selected Abortion-Funding State Budget passes Republican-Majority SC Senate - June 3, 2010 - Ayes 22; Nays 16
AYES - 11 Republicans ( 41% of 27 ), 11 Democrats
NAYS - 12 Republicans ( 44% of 27 ), 4 Democrats [ plus Sen. Ryberg (R) - 13 Republicans ( 48% of 27)
Please click here for the complete report.
June 07, 2010
17 of 24 SC House Republicans flip on re-vote
17 of 24 SC House Republicans flip on re-vote; Republican-Majority SC House passes Abortion-Funding State Budget on second vote, 64 to 54, on June 3, 2010
Republican-Majority SC Senate then also approves by vote of 22 - 16, on June 3
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1) SC House approves State Budget, 64-54, on June 3:
45 other Republicans had already voted FOR the State Budget with selected Abortion-Funding in the State Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) on Wednesday, June 2 (see below), but 24 Republicans had also voted against it - and together with 45 Democrats who were disgruntled about other issues - that was enough to reject the Abortion-Funding Conference Report for the 2010-2011 State Budget (H.4657) by a vote of 47 Yeas to 69 Nays on June 2.
The Republican-Majority SC House has 73 Republicans, 51 Democrats.
However, then came a re-vote on Thursday, June 3, and with pressure from the SC House Republican leadership and reportedly legislative priority promises made for next year by the House Republican Caucus, 17 out of the 24 Republicans who had voted against the Abortion -Funding Conference Report on June 2, flipped their vote on the June 3 re-vote, voting now to approve the State Budget Conference Report with the selected Abortion-Funding in the SHIP. There were only six SC House Republicans out of the 24 who did not flip, and voted again on June 3 to reject the conference report: Duncan, Haley, Millwood, Norman, Scott, and Garry Smith.
These are the 17 SC House Republicans who flipped their votes from June 2, and on June 3 voted FOR the State Budget Conference Report including the selected Abortion-Funding in the SHIP: Allison, Ballentine, Barfield, Bedingfield, Cato, Chalk, Crawford, Delleney, Huggins, Long, Lucas, Rice, Simrill, Stewart, Thompson, Toole, T. R. Young [ one other legislator had a leave of absence for the day ]
So, in the end, the Republican-Majority SC House led by Speaker Bobby Harrell (R-Charleston), with 73 Republicans, adopted the State Budget Conference Report with selected Abortion-Funding in the SHIP (as well as other Abortion-Funding, surgical and chemical, e.g., Medicaid), and had only SIX Republicans who voted against it ...
... Instead of finding FOUR (out of the 12) pro-abortion-funding Republican Senators in the Republican-Majority SC Senate who had voted against the pro-life amendment proposed by Senator David Thomas to ban SHIP Abortion-Funding on April 28 ( Alexander, Campbell, Cleary, Courson, Fair, Knotts, Leatherman, Larry Martin, McConnell, O'Dell, Peeler, Rankin ) to change their votes, from voting to fund abortion, to pro-life. So in effect, 62 (45 + 17) Republicans in the SC House on June 3 went along with Abortion-Funding in the SHIP, instead of finding a net of just FOUR Republicans (or Democrats) in the Senate who would change their April 28 vote against Senator Thomas' amendment to ban SHIP abortion-funding.
Overall then, because of the net lack of FOUR pro-life State Senators, the taxpaying citizens of South Carolina may be forced to again pay for selected SHIP abortions in the State Budget, and we will all share in that corporate bloodguilt (Numbers 35:33, Proverb 6:16, 17; Deuteronomy 19:10).
Read and download the complete report here.
Republican-Majority SC Senate then also approves by vote of 22 - 16, on June 3
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1) SC House approves State Budget, 64-54, on June 3:
45 other Republicans had already voted FOR the State Budget with selected Abortion-Funding in the State Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) on Wednesday, June 2 (see below), but 24 Republicans had also voted against it - and together with 45 Democrats who were disgruntled about other issues - that was enough to reject the Abortion-Funding Conference Report for the 2010-2011 State Budget (H.4657) by a vote of 47 Yeas to 69 Nays on June 2.
The Republican-Majority SC House has 73 Republicans, 51 Democrats.
However, then came a re-vote on Thursday, June 3, and with pressure from the SC House Republican leadership and reportedly legislative priority promises made for next year by the House Republican Caucus, 17 out of the 24 Republicans who had voted against the Abortion -Funding Conference Report on June 2, flipped their vote on the June 3 re-vote, voting now to approve the State Budget Conference Report with the selected Abortion-Funding in the SHIP. There were only six SC House Republicans out of the 24 who did not flip, and voted again on June 3 to reject the conference report: Duncan, Haley, Millwood, Norman, Scott, and Garry Smith.
These are the 17 SC House Republicans who flipped their votes from June 2, and on June 3 voted FOR the State Budget Conference Report including the selected Abortion-Funding in the SHIP: Allison, Ballentine, Barfield, Bedingfield, Cato, Chalk, Crawford, Delleney, Huggins, Long, Lucas, Rice, Simrill, Stewart, Thompson, Toole, T. R. Young [ one other legislator had a leave of absence for the day ]
So, in the end, the Republican-Majority SC House led by Speaker Bobby Harrell (R-Charleston), with 73 Republicans, adopted the State Budget Conference Report with selected Abortion-Funding in the SHIP (as well as other Abortion-Funding, surgical and chemical, e.g., Medicaid), and had only SIX Republicans who voted against it ...
... Instead of finding FOUR (out of the 12) pro-abortion-funding Republican Senators in the Republican-Majority SC Senate who had voted against the pro-life amendment proposed by Senator David Thomas to ban SHIP Abortion-Funding on April 28 ( Alexander, Campbell, Cleary, Courson, Fair, Knotts, Leatherman, Larry Martin, McConnell, O'Dell, Peeler, Rankin ) to change their votes, from voting to fund abortion, to pro-life. So in effect, 62 (45 + 17) Republicans in the SC House on June 3 went along with Abortion-Funding in the SHIP, instead of finding a net of just FOUR Republicans (or Democrats) in the Senate who would change their April 28 vote against Senator Thomas' amendment to ban SHIP abortion-funding.
Overall then, because of the net lack of FOUR pro-life State Senators, the taxpaying citizens of South Carolina may be forced to again pay for selected SHIP abortions in the State Budget, and we will all share in that corporate bloodguilt (Numbers 35:33, Proverb 6:16, 17; Deuteronomy 19:10).
Read and download the complete report here.
June 02, 2010
SC State Budget Conference Report (H.4657) was REJECTED by the SC House on the first vote, 47 to 69, on Wednesday, June 2
YEAS - 45 Republicans (62%), 2 Democrats
NAYS - 24 Republicans (33%), 45 Democrats
Minority (33%) of SC House Republicans voted to reject
SC State Budget SHIP Abortion-Funding Conference Report
Majority (62%) of SC House Republicans voted to approve
SCState Budget SHIP Abortion-Funding Conference Report
A combination of a minority of principled pro-life Republicans, and otherwise disgruntled Democrats, resulted in the REJECTION of the STATE BUDGET SHIP ABORTION-FUNDING CONFERENCE REPORT
[ The SC House has 73 Republicans, 51 Democrats. ]
Please check today's Roll Call vote below for the H. 4657 - Conference Report, and call your SC House member to either: 1) continue to vote against the State Budget Conference Report with the State Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) Abortion-Funding if they voted "Nay" today; or,
2) if they voted "Yea" in support of the State Budget Conference Report with the SHIP Abortion-Funding, challenge them to vote "Nay" - if the SC House Leadership, led by Speaker Bobby Harrell (R-Charleston), calls for a re-vote on Thursday, June 3. The SC House session starts at 10 AM on Thursday, June 3. You can watch the proceedings in the SC House Chamber live.
SC House members contact info.
Read and download the entire report here.
NAYS - 24 Republicans (33%), 45 Democrats
Minority (33%) of SC House Republicans voted to reject
SC State Budget SHIP Abortion-Funding Conference Report
Majority (62%) of SC House Republicans voted to approve
SCState Budget SHIP Abortion-Funding Conference Report
A combination of a minority of principled pro-life Republicans, and otherwise disgruntled Democrats, resulted in the REJECTION of the STATE BUDGET SHIP ABORTION-FUNDING CONFERENCE REPORT
[ The SC House has 73 Republicans, 51 Democrats. ]
Please check today's Roll Call vote below for the H. 4657 - Conference Report, and call your SC House member to either: 1) continue to vote against the State Budget Conference Report with the State Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) Abortion-Funding if they voted "Nay" today; or,
2) if they voted "Yea" in support of the State Budget Conference Report with the SHIP Abortion-Funding, challenge them to vote "Nay" - if the SC House Leadership, led by Speaker Bobby Harrell (R-Charleston), calls for a re-vote on Thursday, June 3. The SC House session starts at 10 AM on Thursday, June 3. You can watch the proceedings in the SC House Chamber live.
SC House members contact info.
Read and download the entire report here.
May 30, 2010
Difference of just FOUR SC Senators forcing South Carolina to continue to FUND State Health Insurance Plan abortions
If just FOUR SC Senators out of the 24 who voted to force Christian pro-life taxpayers to pay for the shedding of innocent blood on April 28th had switched their vote, from pro-child-murder-funding, to a vote to do their duty as civil ministers and protect innocent human life, instead of forcing us to be complicit in the destruction of innocent human life, then South Carolina would have been spared another year of funding child-murder for selected "abortions" in the State Health Insurance Plan, part of the SC State Budget ( 2010-2011 State General Appropriations Bill - H 4657 ). Does SC really expect to be blessed financially in our State finances when some of those finances are used to shed innocent blood, to rebel against God, and violate His Holy Word (Matthew 6:33, Proverb 14:34, Psalm 9:17) ? Our leaders reckon without God.
The final votes in the SC House and SC Senate on the child-murder-funding 2010-2011 SC State Budget conference report could perhaps begin as early as Tuesday, June 1st. The regular legislative session ends for the year on Thursday, June 3rd.
CALL YOUR SC HOUSE AND SC SENATE MEMBERS AND TELL THEM YOU WANT THEM TO VOTE "NO" TO THIS WICKED BUDGET SPENDING PLAN THAT USES YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO DESTROY INNOCENT HUMAN LIVES !!!
Read and download the entire report here.
The final votes in the SC House and SC Senate on the child-murder-funding 2010-2011 SC State Budget conference report could perhaps begin as early as Tuesday, June 1st. The regular legislative session ends for the year on Thursday, June 3rd.
CALL YOUR SC HOUSE AND SC SENATE MEMBERS AND TELL THEM YOU WANT THEM TO VOTE "NO" TO THIS WICKED BUDGET SPENDING PLAN THAT USES YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO DESTROY INNOCENT HUMAN LIVES !!!
Read and download the entire report here.
May 29, 2010
SC House-Senate Budget Conference Committee abandons unborn babies in State Budget compromise
The six-man ( FOUR REPUBLICANS, two Democrats ) House-Senate Budget Conference Committee *** agreed to throw out the SC House-passed amendment (March 17-18) banning state-funding of abortions in the State Health Insurance Plan for rape, incest, and unrestricted life of the mother "abortions", in the FY 2011 State Budget compromise [ FY 2011 State Appropriations (Budget) Bill - H 4657 ].
The Republican-majority SC Senate had earlier (April 28) refused to pass the same amendment.
*** Senators: John Land (D-Clarendon), Hugh Leatherman (R-Florence), and Mike Fair (R-Greenville)
House Representatives: Kenny Bingham (R-Lexington), Bill Clyburn (D-Aiken), and Dan Cooper (R-Anderson).
"Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." - Proverb 14:34, KJB
"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations [ and STATES ] that forget God." - Psalm 9:17, KJB
With a Republican-majority SC Senate, a Republican-majority SC House, and a Republican Governor, the Christian pro-lifers of South Carolina will still, continue to be forced in the 2010-2011 budget year to fund surgical and chemical "abortions".
The Republican-majority SC Legislature continues to fund the shedding of innocent blood in our State, polluting the land (Numbers 35:33).
God is Judging South Carolina for over 300,000+ (surgical alone) "ABORTIONS" (Psalm 106:37-44).
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, South Carolina
May 29, 2010
Read and download the complete report here.
The Republican-majority SC Senate had earlier (April 28) refused to pass the same amendment.
*** Senators: John Land (D-Clarendon), Hugh Leatherman (R-Florence), and Mike Fair (R-Greenville)
House Representatives: Kenny Bingham (R-Lexington), Bill Clyburn (D-Aiken), and Dan Cooper (R-Anderson).
"Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people." - Proverb 14:34, KJB
"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations [ and STATES ] that forget God." - Psalm 9:17, KJB
With a Republican-majority SC Senate, a Republican-majority SC House, and a Republican Governor, the Christian pro-lifers of South Carolina will still, continue to be forced in the 2010-2011 budget year to fund surgical and chemical "abortions".
The Republican-majority SC Legislature continues to fund the shedding of innocent blood in our State, polluting the land (Numbers 35:33).
God is Judging South Carolina for over 300,000+ (surgical alone) "ABORTIONS" (Psalm 106:37-44).
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, South Carolina
May 29, 2010
Read and download the complete report here.
May 27, 2010
BRIGGS v. ELLIOTT and the SC Personhood Bill (S.450 / H.3526)
Just as SC’s Briggs v. Elliott in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (KS) (1954) helped overturn Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), …
So too the SC Personhood Bill can, LORD willing, help overturn
the unconstitutional abomination of Roe v. Wade (1973).
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If Briggs v. Elliott, a private lawsuit filed in South Carolina, became part of the historic Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (KS) (1954) case, which helped overturn the 58-year-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent of “separate but equal” established by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); which is TODAY commemorated on the panels of the South Carolina State House African American History Monument, …
… Then why cannot the South Carolina Personhood Bill (S.450 / H.3526) be passed and become part of a joint lawsuit with other States passing Personhood legislation (State statutes or constitutional amendments), to overturn the unconstitutional abomination of Roe v. Wade (1973) ? Colorado, has already conducted a State Personhood Constitutional Amendment ballot initiative, in November 2008 – and over 585,000 voters (over 26 %) voted in support of the Colorado Personhood Amendment.
So too the SC Personhood Bill can, LORD willing, help overturn
the unconstitutional abomination of Roe v. Wade (1973).
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If Briggs v. Elliott, a private lawsuit filed in South Carolina, became part of the historic Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (KS) (1954) case, which helped overturn the 58-year-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent of “separate but equal” established by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896); which is TODAY commemorated on the panels of the South Carolina State House African American History Monument, …
… Then why cannot the South Carolina Personhood Bill (S.450 / H.3526) be passed and become part of a joint lawsuit with other States passing Personhood legislation (State statutes or constitutional amendments), to overturn the unconstitutional abomination of Roe v. Wade (1973) ? Colorado, has already conducted a State Personhood Constitutional Amendment ballot initiative, in November 2008 – and over 585,000 voters (over 26 %) voted in support of the Colorado Personhood Amendment.
Briggs v. Elliott, part of the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that
overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson, is prominently displayed
in the panels of the SC State House African American History Monument [ Photo: Steve Lefemine ]
overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson, is prominently displayed
in the panels of the SC State House African American History Monument [ Photo: Steve Lefemine ]
Colorado has once again certified a Personhood Amendment ballot initiative for the Nov. 2010 General Election – if the amendment passes, Colorado will become the first State in U.S. history to recognize the God-given, Declaration-of-Independence-affirmed, unalienable right to life of every human being as a “person” beginning at fertilization, in State Law. In addition, the State of Mississippi, with only one child-murder center left in the State (South Carolina has three – one each in Greenville, Columbia, Charleston), has been certified for a Personhood Amendment ballot initiative for the Nov. 2011 General Election – with the active, public support of the sitting Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, wide support from Christian churches, and support from a national pro-family organization (AFA) based in Mississippi, the prospects for passage of the Personhood Constitutional Amendment in Mississippi, Lord willing, by the grace of God, appear to be very strong indeed. One day, the evil of Abortion, like the evil of American Slavery, will end.
Distributed to State Senators in Senate Chamber, State House, Columbia, SC - May 27, 2010
May 25, 2010
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR - Candidate Survey
Columbia Christians for Life
P.O. Box 50358, Columbia, S.C. 29250 * (803) 794-6273 * www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
May 25, 2010
TO: REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR
Congressman Gresham Barrett
Lieutenant Governor André Bauer
State Representative Nikki Haley
Attorney General Henry McMaster
FR: Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary, dir., Columbia Christians for Life
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
SUBJ: YOUR POSITION ON THE SANCTITY OF LIFE:
1) Support for S.450 / H.3526 – the SC Personhood Bill
2) Commitment to De-fund Abortion in the State Budget
1. With the June 8 Republican Primary for South Carolina Governor just two weeks away, it is my understanding, from looking at your campaign websites, that all four GOP candidates claim to be “pro-life.” However the term “pro-life” means different things to different people. In my view, BEING PRO-LIFE MEANS AGREEING WITH GOD ON THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE WHICH HE HAS CREATED.
2. As candidates for SC Governor, if elected, will you:
a) Publicly support legislative efforts (e.g., S.450 / H.3526 ) to END ALL DECRIMINALIZED ABORTION (no so-called “exceptions” for rape/incest/life-of-the-mother – pre-born human beings are either fully-protected human “PERSONS” in the eyes of the law, with full due process and equal protection rights as guaranteed by Article I., Section 3. of the South Carolina State Constitution, or they are not). Specifically, if this legislation, Lord willing, passes the SC State Legislature, would you be willing to either a) sign it into law, or b) at least, allow the five days constitutionally designated to pass so that the law could take effect without your signature ?
b) Commit not to fund surgical abortions in the State Budget, including such funding in the State Health Insurance Plan, and the State portion of Medicaid, including for rape, incest, and life-of-the-mother abortions, as is the current practice ?
c) Commit not to fund chemical abortions in the State Budget, including such funding in the State Health Insurance Plan, the State portion of Medicaid, Title X (DHEC), or SCHIP ? [ This includes so-called “birth control” / so-called “family planning” drugs and devices which are not only contraceptive in their pharmacological functioning according to the Physicians’ Desk Reference, but which are also abortifacient; e.g., Birth Control Pills, the IUD, Depo-Provera, and other anti-life, child-prevention drugs and devices. ]
3. I would like to know the positions of each of the candidates, by letter or e-mail, concerning these three specific items:
a) Will you publicly support SC Personhood legislation (e.g., S.450 / H.3526 ) to recognize the God-given, unalienable right to life of every pre-born human being (with no “exceptions”) as a legal “person” beginning at fertilization, in South Carolina law ? Will you sign into law, or allow the five days constitutionally designated to pass so that the law could take effect without your signature, if the SC Legislature passes personhood legislation ?
b) Will you commit to veto any State Budget which funds any surgical abortions ?
c) Will you commit to veto any State Budget which funds any chemical abortions ?
4. Thank you for your consideration of this request for your positions on these important right to life issues. The protection of innocent human life is a duty of civil ministers second only to their acknowledge of God (Psalm 2).
Please click here for a printable version of this survey.
P.O. Box 50358, Columbia, S.C. 29250 * (803) 794-6273 * www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
May 25, 2010
TO: REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR
Congressman Gresham Barrett
Lieutenant Governor André Bauer
State Representative Nikki Haley
Attorney General Henry McMaster
FR: Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary, dir., Columbia Christians for Life
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
SUBJ: YOUR POSITION ON THE SANCTITY OF LIFE:
1) Support for S.450 / H.3526 – the SC Personhood Bill
2) Commitment to De-fund Abortion in the State Budget
1. With the June 8 Republican Primary for South Carolina Governor just two weeks away, it is my understanding, from looking at your campaign websites, that all four GOP candidates claim to be “pro-life.” However the term “pro-life” means different things to different people. In my view, BEING PRO-LIFE MEANS AGREEING WITH GOD ON THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE WHICH HE HAS CREATED.
2. As candidates for SC Governor, if elected, will you:
a) Publicly support legislative efforts (e.g., S.450 / H.3526 ) to END ALL DECRIMINALIZED ABORTION (no so-called “exceptions” for rape/incest/life-of-the-mother – pre-born human beings are either fully-protected human “PERSONS” in the eyes of the law, with full due process and equal protection rights as guaranteed by Article I., Section 3. of the South Carolina State Constitution, or they are not). Specifically, if this legislation, Lord willing, passes the SC State Legislature, would you be willing to either a) sign it into law, or b) at least, allow the five days constitutionally designated to pass so that the law could take effect without your signature ?
b) Commit not to fund surgical abortions in the State Budget, including such funding in the State Health Insurance Plan, and the State portion of Medicaid, including for rape, incest, and life-of-the-mother abortions, as is the current practice ?
c) Commit not to fund chemical abortions in the State Budget, including such funding in the State Health Insurance Plan, the State portion of Medicaid, Title X (DHEC), or SCHIP ? [ This includes so-called “birth control” / so-called “family planning” drugs and devices which are not only contraceptive in their pharmacological functioning according to the Physicians’ Desk Reference, but which are also abortifacient; e.g., Birth Control Pills, the IUD, Depo-Provera, and other anti-life, child-prevention drugs and devices. ]
3. I would like to know the positions of each of the candidates, by letter or e-mail, concerning these three specific items:
a) Will you publicly support SC Personhood legislation (e.g., S.450 / H.3526 ) to recognize the God-given, unalienable right to life of every pre-born human being (with no “exceptions”) as a legal “person” beginning at fertilization, in South Carolina law ? Will you sign into law, or allow the five days constitutionally designated to pass so that the law could take effect without your signature, if the SC Legislature passes personhood legislation ?
b) Will you commit to veto any State Budget which funds any surgical abortions ?
c) Will you commit to veto any State Budget which funds any chemical abortions ?
4. Thank you for your consideration of this request for your positions on these important right to life issues. The protection of innocent human life is a duty of civil ministers second only to their acknowledge of God (Psalm 2).
Please click here for a printable version of this survey.
May 20, 2010
MISSOURI ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS REJECT MISSOURI PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT:
Now at least Seven States' Roman Catholic Bishops have opposed Personhood efforts
Roman Catholic Bishops of these Seven States have OPPOSED State-Level Personhood legislation:
- MICHIGAN: 2006
- GEORGIA: 2008
- COLORADO: 2008 & 2009 & 2010
- MONTANA: 2008 & 2009
- NORTH DAKOTA: 2009
- FLORIDA: 2009
- MISSOURI: 2010
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JOINT STATEMENT OF THE MISSOURI CATHOLIC BISHOPS ON THE PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT PETITION DRIVE
www.mocatholic.org/Links/Session/Personhood%20Amendment.pdf
MISSOURI CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: "The Official Public Policy voice of the Catholic Church in the Show-Me State"
www.MOCatholic.org
Approved April 19, 2010
[ excerpts, emphasis added]
It is true that present Missouri law does not outlaw and prevent the scourge that is abortion. However, neither would the proposed Personhood Amendment. No state constitution or state law can overturn provisions of the U.S Constitution or interpretations of the U.S. Constitution by the U.S. Supreme Court. Article IV of the U.S. Constitution states that:
[ sic - the Missouri Roman Catholic Bishops' statement is wrong, this quote below is not from Article IV. of the U.S. Constitution, but from Article VI. ]
This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance
thereof; … shall be the supreme Law of the Land, and the Judges in every state shall
be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the contrary
notwithstanding. (emphasis added)
[ See CCL "Comments on the Fraud and Fallacies of the Missouri Roman Catholic Bishops Statement" ]
Through the Missouri Catholic Conference, and in our day-to-day ministry, we work tirelessly to promote human life from conception to natural death. [ CCL Note: Rubbish ! ] This legislative session, the MCC is working to pass pro-life legislation strengthening Missouri’s informed consent laws [ CCL Note: i.e., Missouri's incremental, "abortion"/murder, read some information, AND THEN YOU CAN KILL THE BABY laws. ], and assuring that abortion is not provided through the health insurance exchanges established under the new healthcare reform law.
[ CCL Note: God's Requirement for Murder is JUSTICE, NOT incremental "Regulation" !!! Exodus 20:13, KJB ]
We urge your support and assistance with the Missouri Catholic Conference’s efforts in this regard. You can assist their efforts by joining the MCC Citizen Network at http://www.mocatholic.org/.
/ SIGNED /
Most Reverend [ sic - Ps. 111:9, KJB ] Robert J. Carlson, Executive Chairman, Archdiocese of St. Louis
Most Reverend [ sic - Ps. 111:9, KJB ] Robert Finn, Vice Chairman, Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph
Most Reverend [ sic - Ps. 111:9, KJB ] John R. Gaydos, General Chairman, Diocese of Jefferson City
Most Reverend [ sic - Ps. 111:9, KJB ] James Johnston, Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau
Most Reverend [ sic - Ps. 111:9, KJB ] Robert J. Hermann, Auxiliary Bishop of St. Louis
[ CCL Note:
These five "NOT-Reverend's" represent ALL FIVE of the active Roman Catholic Bishops in the State of Missouri ]
Click here to download and read the complete report, including CCL "Comments on the Fraud and Fallacies of the Missouri Roman Catholic Bishops Statement".
Roman Catholic Bishops of these Seven States have OPPOSED State-Level Personhood legislation:
- MICHIGAN: 2006
- GEORGIA: 2008
- COLORADO: 2008 & 2009 & 2010
- MONTANA: 2008 & 2009
- NORTH DAKOTA: 2009
- FLORIDA: 2009
- MISSOURI: 2010
__________________________________________________________
JOINT STATEMENT OF THE MISSOURI CATHOLIC BISHOPS ON THE PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT PETITION DRIVE
www.mocatholic.org/Links/Session/Personhood%20Amendment.pdf
MISSOURI CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: "The Official Public Policy voice of the Catholic Church in the Show-Me State"
www.MOCatholic.org
Approved April 19, 2010
[ excerpts, emphasis added]
It is true that present Missouri law does not outlaw and prevent the scourge that is abortion. However, neither would the proposed Personhood Amendment. No state constitution or state law can overturn provisions of the U.S Constitution or interpretations of the U.S. Constitution by the U.S. Supreme Court. Article IV of the U.S. Constitution states that:
[ sic - the Missouri Roman Catholic Bishops' statement is wrong, this quote below is not from Article IV. of the U.S. Constitution, but from Article VI. ]
This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance
thereof; … shall be the supreme Law of the Land, and the Judges in every state shall
be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the contrary
notwithstanding. (emphasis added)
[ See CCL "Comments on the Fraud and Fallacies of the Missouri Roman Catholic Bishops Statement" ]
Through the Missouri Catholic Conference, and in our day-to-day ministry, we work tirelessly to promote human life from conception to natural death. [ CCL Note: Rubbish ! ] This legislative session, the MCC is working to pass pro-life legislation strengthening Missouri’s informed consent laws [ CCL Note: i.e., Missouri's incremental, "abortion"/murder, read some information, AND THEN YOU CAN KILL THE BABY laws. ], and assuring that abortion is not provided through the health insurance exchanges established under the new healthcare reform law.
[ CCL Note: God's Requirement for Murder is JUSTICE, NOT incremental "Regulation" !!! Exodus 20:13, KJB ]
We urge your support and assistance with the Missouri Catholic Conference’s efforts in this regard. You can assist their efforts by joining the MCC Citizen Network at http://www.mocatholic.org/.
/ SIGNED /
Most Reverend [ sic - Ps. 111:9, KJB ] Robert J. Carlson, Executive Chairman, Archdiocese of St. Louis
Most Reverend [ sic - Ps. 111:9, KJB ] Robert Finn, Vice Chairman, Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph
Most Reverend [ sic - Ps. 111:9, KJB ] John R. Gaydos, General Chairman, Diocese of Jefferson City
Most Reverend [ sic - Ps. 111:9, KJB ] James Johnston, Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau
Most Reverend [ sic - Ps. 111:9, KJB ] Robert J. Hermann, Auxiliary Bishop of St. Louis
[ CCL Note:
These five "NOT-Reverend's" represent ALL FIVE of the active Roman Catholic Bishops in the State of Missouri ]
Click here to download and read the complete report, including CCL "Comments on the Fraud and Fallacies of the Missouri Roman Catholic Bishops Statement".
May 06, 2010
(Audio) SC State House News Conference and Christian Prayer Gathering, May 6, 2010, National Day of Prayer
Prayers for Repentance or Imprecation of SC Senators voting in Defiance of the Law of God on April 13 and April 28, 2010.
April 13 - SC Senators voted against the SC Personhood Bill ( S.450).
April 28 - SC Senators voted against amendment to the State Budget banning abortion-funding in State Health Insurance Plan (SHIP).
Part 1 (3:09 min.) - Welcome, Purpose, Opening Prayer, Reason, Declaration of Independence excerpt
Part 2 (2:21 min.) - On April 13, SC Senators voted against the SC Personhood Bill ( S.450) by a vote of 24 - 18
Part 3 (2:12 min.) - On April 28, SC Senators voted against amendment to the State Budget banning abortion-funding in SHIP by a vote of 24 - 17
Part 4 (8:29 min.) - Audio from DVD video record (SC ETV) of April 13 SC Senate proceedings: Senator Bright, Senator McConnell, Senator Courson
Part 5 (9:16 min.) - Why is Senator McConnell wrong ? SC Personhood Bill is NOT unconstitutional; and there are NO exceptions to banning murder.
Part 6 (5:28 min.) - Prayer for Repentance for SC Senators; for Salvation of every Senator; and for those who may be saved, but who are walking in disobedience to God.
Part 7 (6:15 min.) - Praying for Salvation of those SC Senators not saved; for God to turn the hearts and minds of Senators to vote righteously; if not, then Prayer of Imprecation
Prayer of Imprecation for SC Senators wherein there is not Repentance and Just Judgment forthcoming.
Part 8 (1:56 min.) - Psalm 2 (KJB)
Part 9 (4:40 min.) - Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords - over all men, over all nations, for all time - 1 Timothy 6:15 (KJB); Psalm 106:37-44 (KJB); Closing Prayer
May 03, 2010
Press Advisory: SC State House News Conference and Christian Prayer Gathering
SC STATE HOUSE
NEWS CONFERENCE
AND
CHRISTIAN PRAYER GATHERING
Thursday, May 6, 2010
National Day of Prayer
10:00-11:00 AM
First Floor Lobby, SC State House
Columbia, South Carolina
NEWS CONFERENCE
AND
CHRISTIAN PRAYER GATHERING
Thursday, May 6, 2010
National Day of Prayer
10:00-11:00 AM
First Floor Lobby, SC State House
Columbia, South Carolina
PRESS ADVISORY
FOR RELEASE: Monday, May 3, 2010
FOR FURTHER INFO: Contact, Steve Lefemine, Columbia Christians for Life (event sponsor), Columbia, SC
(803) 794-6273, www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net , Home and “RTL Act of SC” page
- Prayers for Repentance or Imprecation of SC Senators voting in Defiance of the Law of God on April 13 and April 28, 2010.
- SC Senators voted against the SC Personhood Bill (S.450), continuing the shedding of innocent blood ( 7,000+ children murdered in the womb each year in SC ) in a Recall vote on April 13. S.450 recognizes the God-given unalienable right to life of every human being as a “person” beginning at fertilization in SC law.
- SC Senators voted against the pro-life/anti-“abortion”[murder]-funding amendment to the State Budget proposed on April 28, banning abortion funding for rape and incest abortions, and banning all abortion funding for life of the mother abortions, not including when the “termination of the pregnancy is incidental to the lifesaving intervention” and also stating “The physician shall act in accordance with the standard of care to preserve both [emphasis added] the life of the mother and the life of the pre-born child.”
FOR RELEASE: Monday, May 3, 2010
FOR FURTHER INFO: Contact, Steve Lefemine, Columbia Christians for Life (event sponsor), Columbia, SC
(803) 794-6273, www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net , Home and “RTL Act of SC” page
- Prayers for Repentance or Imprecation of SC Senators voting in Defiance of the Law of God on April 13 and April 28, 2010.
- SC Senators voted against the SC Personhood Bill (S.450), continuing the shedding of innocent blood ( 7,000+ children murdered in the womb each year in SC ) in a Recall vote on April 13. S.450 recognizes the God-given unalienable right to life of every human being as a “person” beginning at fertilization in SC law.
- SC Senators voted against the pro-life/anti-“abortion”[murder]-funding amendment to the State Budget proposed on April 28, banning abortion funding for rape and incest abortions, and banning all abortion funding for life of the mother abortions, not including when the “termination of the pregnancy is incidental to the lifesaving intervention” and also stating “The physician shall act in accordance with the standard of care to preserve both [emphasis added] the life of the mother and the life of the pre-born child.”
“THOU SHALT NOT KILL [ MURDER ].” EXODUS 20:13, KJB
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April 29, 2010
Republican-Majority South Carolina Senate votes to continue Abortion-Funding in State Health Insurance Plan by 24 - 17 vote
ANTI-ABORTION-FUNDING BUDGET AMENDMENT INTRODUCED BY
CHRISTIAN PRO-LIFE SENATOR DAVID THOMAS
PRESS RELEASE
FOR RELEASE: Thursday, April 29, 2010
FOR FURTHER INFO: Contact, Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life, Columbia, SC; (803) 794-6273
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net, Home and “RTL Act of SC” page
[COLUMBIA] – Wednesday, April 28, 2010, the Republican-majority South Carolina Senate refused to restore a state budget amendment banning all abortion-funding for rape and incest abortions, and banning all abortion-funding for life of the mother abortions, except where the “termination of the pregnancy is incidental to the lifesaving intervention” and also stating “The physician shall act in accordance with the standard of care to preserve both [emphasis added] the life of the mother and the life of the pre-born child.”
Christian pro-life Senator David Thomas (R-Greenville) introduced and explained the amendment, then pro-abortion Senator Phil Leventis (D-Sumter) attempted to have it ruled out of order, which failed, and then pro-abortion Senator Joel Lourie (D-Richland) spoke against the amendment and then moved to table Senator Thomas’ amendment. The vote to table (defeat) the amendment passed 24 - 17:
24 “Ayes” voting in support of Tabling motion to defeat Senator Thomas’ pro-life amendment:
Republicans (12): Alexander, Campbell, Cleary, Courson, Fair, Knotts, Leatherman, Larry Martin,
McConnell, O'Dell, Peeler, Rankin
Democrats (12): Coleman, Elliott, Ford, Hutto, Land, Leventis, Lourie, Malloy, Nicholson, Scott, Setzler, Williams
17 “Nays” voting against Tabling motion to defeat Senator Thomas’ pro-life amendment:
Republicans (15): Bright, Bryant, Campsen, Cromer, Davis, Grooms, Hayes, Shane Martin, Massey,
Mulvaney, Rose, Ryberg, Shoopman, Thomas, Verdin
Democrats (2): McGill, Reese
Senator Thomas’ pro-life / anti-abortion-funding amendment was tabled. If that amendment remains tabled in the Senate version of the state budget, that means that the State Health Insurance Plan will continue to fund abortions for rape, incest, and all life of the mother abortions, in the Senate version.
However, the Republican-majority SC House of Representatives, in an hours-long overnight debate session on March 17-18, did already admirably persevere in passing the same pro-life, anti-abortion-funding amendment as the one introduced and now defeated in the SC Senate by Senator Thomas on April 28. So the abortion -funding ban remains in the House version of the budget. If the Senate does not repent of its continuation of state-funding of abortion in the SC State Health Insurance Plan before it gives final approval to the budget bill, that would set up a situation requiring resolution in a joint House-Senate Conference Committee assigned to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of the FY 2010-2011 state budget. (Proverbs 6:16,17, KJB)
FOR RELEASE: Thursday, April 29, 2010
FOR FURTHER INFO: Contact, Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life, Columbia, SC; (803) 794-6273
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net, Home and “RTL Act of SC” page
[COLUMBIA] – Wednesday, April 28, 2010, the Republican-majority South Carolina Senate refused to restore a state budget amendment banning all abortion-funding for rape and incest abortions, and banning all abortion-funding for life of the mother abortions, except where the “termination of the pregnancy is incidental to the lifesaving intervention” and also stating “The physician shall act in accordance with the standard of care to preserve both [emphasis added] the life of the mother and the life of the pre-born child.”
Christian pro-life Senator David Thomas (R-Greenville) introduced and explained the amendment, then pro-abortion Senator Phil Leventis (D-Sumter) attempted to have it ruled out of order, which failed, and then pro-abortion Senator Joel Lourie (D-Richland) spoke against the amendment and then moved to table Senator Thomas’ amendment. The vote to table (defeat) the amendment passed 24 - 17:
24 “Ayes” voting in support of Tabling motion to defeat Senator Thomas’ pro-life amendment:
Republicans (12): Alexander, Campbell, Cleary, Courson, Fair, Knotts, Leatherman, Larry Martin,
McConnell, O'Dell, Peeler, Rankin
Democrats (12): Coleman, Elliott, Ford, Hutto, Land, Leventis, Lourie, Malloy, Nicholson, Scott, Setzler, Williams
17 “Nays” voting against Tabling motion to defeat Senator Thomas’ pro-life amendment:
Republicans (15): Bright, Bryant, Campsen, Cromer, Davis, Grooms, Hayes, Shane Martin, Massey,
Mulvaney, Rose, Ryberg, Shoopman, Thomas, Verdin
Democrats (2): McGill, Reese
Senator Thomas’ pro-life / anti-abortion-funding amendment was tabled. If that amendment remains tabled in the Senate version of the state budget, that means that the State Health Insurance Plan will continue to fund abortions for rape, incest, and all life of the mother abortions, in the Senate version.
However, the Republican-majority SC House of Representatives, in an hours-long overnight debate session on March 17-18, did already admirably persevere in passing the same pro-life, anti-abortion-funding amendment as the one introduced and now defeated in the SC Senate by Senator Thomas on April 28. So the abortion -funding ban remains in the House version of the budget. If the Senate does not repent of its continuation of state-funding of abortion in the SC State Health Insurance Plan before it gives final approval to the budget bill, that would set up a situation requiring resolution in a joint House-Senate Conference Committee assigned to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of the FY 2010-2011 state budget. (Proverbs 6:16,17, KJB)
SC Senate Journal - April 28, 2010 - Budget amendment to de-fund State Health Insurance Plan abortions,
introduced by SC Senator David Thomas (R-Greenville)
- Pro-Life, Anti-Abortion-Funding Amendment to SC State Budget championed by Sen. David Thomas (R-Greenville) DEFEATED.
- DEFEATED by Republican-Majority SC Senate (27 R, 19 D), by a vote of 24 - 17.
Click here to read the document in its entirety.
- Pro-Life, Anti-Abortion-Funding Amendment to SC State Budget championed by Sen. David Thomas (R-Greenville) DEFEATED.
- DEFEATED by Republican-Majority SC Senate (27 R, 19 D), by a vote of 24 - 17.
Click here to read the document in its entirety.
April 22, 2010
President Ronald Reagan PERSONHOOD PROCLAMATION - January 14, 1988
President of the United States of America, Proclamation 5761, National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 1988
- "The unalienable right to life is found not only in the Declaration of Independence but also in the Constitution that every President is sworn to preserve, protect, and defend. Both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."
- "NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare the unalienable personhood of every American, from the moment of conception until natural death, ..."
Source: http://www.personhoodamendments.com/reagan/index.php
- "The unalienable right to life is found not only in the Declaration of Independence but also in the Constitution that every President is sworn to preserve, protect, and defend. Both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."
- "NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare the unalienable personhood of every American, from the moment of conception until natural death, ..."
Source: http://www.personhoodamendments.com/reagan/index.php
April 13, 2010
Remarks by Senator McConnell - SC Senate Journal, April 13, 2010
Remarks by Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston) made in opposition to the Recall of S.450 (SC Personhood Bill)
[ After linking to the entire Senate Journal for April 13, 2010, then conduct search for: Remarks by Senator McConnell ]
Senator McConnell's remarks include: 1) Repeatedly and erroneously calling the bill "unconstitutional"
2) Expressing his opposition to requiring the State of SC to defend in court, at taxpayers' expense, the right to life of unborn children as "persons", should this bill become law and likely be challenged in court
3) Asserting his support for allowing the execution of unborn children in the womb if their circumstances of conception include rape, incest, or the so-called health or so-called life of the mother
4) Expressing his opposition to charging "doctors" who murder human beings in the womb with manslaughter or murder
[ After linking to the entire Senate Journal for April 13, 2010, then conduct search for: Remarks by Senator McConnell ]
Senator McConnell's remarks include: 1) Repeatedly and erroneously calling the bill "unconstitutional"
2) Expressing his opposition to requiring the State of SC to defend in court, at taxpayers' expense, the right to life of unborn children as "persons", should this bill become law and likely be challenged in court
3) Asserting his support for allowing the execution of unborn children in the womb if their circumstances of conception include rape, incest, or the so-called health or so-called life of the mother
4) Expressing his opposition to charging "doctors" who murder human beings in the womb with manslaughter or murder
Republican-Majority South Carolina Senate Rejects Opportunity to Advance Personhood Bill by 24-18 vote; Abandons Pre-Born Children
OVER 40% (12 out of 27) OF SC SENATE REPUBLICANS VOTED AGAINST RECALL EFFORT LED BY CHRISTIAN PRO-LIFE SENATOR LEE BRIGHT
PRESS RELEASE
FOR RELEASE: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
FOR FURTHER INFO: Contact, Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life, Columbia, SC; (803) 794-6273
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ , Home and “RTL Act of SC” page
[COLUMBIA] – For the first time in the 12 years since personhood legislation was first introduced in the South Carolina Senate in 1998, a vote regarding the legislation occurred on the floor of the SC Senate today, April 13. Primary sponsor, Christian pro-life Senator Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg) moved to Recall the Personhood Bill, S.450, from Senator Glenn McConnell’s (R-Charleston) Judiciary Committee, where it has been intentionally blocked by McConnell’s hand-picked Judiciary Subcommittee chairman Senator Jake Knotts (Lexington). Senator Knotts has refused to even hold a public hearing on the bill. After a period of debate on Senator Bright’s Recall motion today, an opposing motion to Table the Recall motion was proposed, which passed 24 -18, thereby killing Senator Bright’s valiant effort to Recall S.450 from McConnell’s / Knotts’ Committees.
The Personhood Bill (S.450) has been blocked by McConnell and Knotts despite the dual facts that: 1) 50% of the SC Senate (23 of 46 members – 19 R’s, 4 D’s) is co-sponsoring the bill; and 2) 50% of Senator Knotts’ Judiciary Subcommittee (three of six members) is co-sponsoring the bill. The SC Senate has 27 Republicans, 19 Democrats.
After Senator Bright moved to Recall the Personhood Bill from McConnell’s Judiciary Committee, Senator McConnell went to the Senate podium to speak against the bill, arguing (erroneously) that the bill is unconstitutional [ Note: U.S. Supreme Court decisions are NOT the law of the land, the U.S. Constitution is – Article VI., Sec. 2., U.S. Constitution; it is Roe v. Wade which is unconstitutional ]. Senator Bright then spoke at the podium in support of his bill, Senator Knotts spoke against the bill, Senator Larry Grooms (R-Berkeley) spoke in support of the bill, Senator Chip Campsen (R-Charleston) spoke against the bill, and Senator Phil Leventis (D-Sumter) spoke against the bill. Pro-Abortion Senator Brad Hutto (D-Orangeburg) then moved to Table the Recall motion, with results as follows:
24 “Ayes” voting in support of Tabling motion to kill Recall [ KILL PERSONHOOD ] effort:
Republicans (12): Alexander, Campbell, Campsen, Cleary, Courson, Cromer, Knotts, Leatherman, Larry Martin, McConnell, O'Dell, Peeler
Democrats (12): Anderson, Coleman, Elliott, Hutto, Land, Leventis, Lourie, Malloy, Nicholson, Pinckney, Scott, Setzler
18 “Nays” voting against Tabling motion to kill Recall [ KILL PERSONHOOD ] effort:
Republicans (14): Bright, Bryant, Davis, Fair, Grooms, Hayes, Shane Martin, Massey, Mulvaney, Rose, Ryberg, Shoopman, Thomas, Verdin
Democrats (4): Jackson, McGill, Reese, Williams
The motion to Recall the Bill was tabled, the Personhood Bill was killed for 2010, and 7,000+ Pre-born Children each year will continue to be destroyed in their mother’s wombs in South Carolina, with the help of several professing “pro-life”, professing “Christian”, professing “Republican” SC State Senators.
The SC Personhood Bill (S.450 / H.3526) is constitutional, and meets the express requirement set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade (1973), that “If … personhood is established, … the fetus’ [ pre-born child’s ] right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [ 14th ] Amendment.”
Click here for a printable version of this press release.
PRESS RELEASE
FOR RELEASE: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
FOR FURTHER INFO: Contact, Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life, Columbia, SC; (803) 794-6273
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ , Home and “RTL Act of SC” page
[COLUMBIA] – For the first time in the 12 years since personhood legislation was first introduced in the South Carolina Senate in 1998, a vote regarding the legislation occurred on the floor of the SC Senate today, April 13. Primary sponsor, Christian pro-life Senator Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg) moved to Recall the Personhood Bill, S.450, from Senator Glenn McConnell’s (R-Charleston) Judiciary Committee, where it has been intentionally blocked by McConnell’s hand-picked Judiciary Subcommittee chairman Senator Jake Knotts (Lexington). Senator Knotts has refused to even hold a public hearing on the bill. After a period of debate on Senator Bright’s Recall motion today, an opposing motion to Table the Recall motion was proposed, which passed 24 -18, thereby killing Senator Bright’s valiant effort to Recall S.450 from McConnell’s / Knotts’ Committees.
The Personhood Bill (S.450) has been blocked by McConnell and Knotts despite the dual facts that: 1) 50% of the SC Senate (23 of 46 members – 19 R’s, 4 D’s) is co-sponsoring the bill; and 2) 50% of Senator Knotts’ Judiciary Subcommittee (three of six members) is co-sponsoring the bill. The SC Senate has 27 Republicans, 19 Democrats.
After Senator Bright moved to Recall the Personhood Bill from McConnell’s Judiciary Committee, Senator McConnell went to the Senate podium to speak against the bill, arguing (erroneously) that the bill is unconstitutional [ Note: U.S. Supreme Court decisions are NOT the law of the land, the U.S. Constitution is – Article VI., Sec. 2., U.S. Constitution; it is Roe v. Wade which is unconstitutional ]. Senator Bright then spoke at the podium in support of his bill, Senator Knotts spoke against the bill, Senator Larry Grooms (R-Berkeley) spoke in support of the bill, Senator Chip Campsen (R-Charleston) spoke against the bill, and Senator Phil Leventis (D-Sumter) spoke against the bill. Pro-Abortion Senator Brad Hutto (D-Orangeburg) then moved to Table the Recall motion, with results as follows:
24 “Ayes” voting in support of Tabling motion to kill Recall [ KILL PERSONHOOD ] effort:
Republicans (12): Alexander, Campbell, Campsen, Cleary, Courson, Cromer, Knotts, Leatherman, Larry Martin, McConnell, O'Dell, Peeler
Democrats (12): Anderson, Coleman, Elliott, Hutto, Land, Leventis, Lourie, Malloy, Nicholson, Pinckney, Scott, Setzler
18 “Nays” voting against Tabling motion to kill Recall [ KILL PERSONHOOD ] effort:
Republicans (14): Bright, Bryant, Davis, Fair, Grooms, Hayes, Shane Martin, Massey, Mulvaney, Rose, Ryberg, Shoopman, Thomas, Verdin
Democrats (4): Jackson, McGill, Reese, Williams
The motion to Recall the Bill was tabled, the Personhood Bill was killed for 2010, and 7,000+ Pre-born Children each year will continue to be destroyed in their mother’s wombs in South Carolina, with the help of several professing “pro-life”, professing “Christian”, professing “Republican” SC State Senators.
The SC Personhood Bill (S.450 / H.3526) is constitutional, and meets the express requirement set forth by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade (1973), that “If … personhood is established, … the fetus’ [ pre-born child’s ] right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [ 14th ] Amendment.”
Click here for a printable version of this press release.
April 10, 2010
Letter to SC Senate President Pro Tem Senator Glenn McConnell (R) Re: Executing Rape Babies
Columbia Christians for Life
P.O. Box 50358, Columbia, S.C. 29250 * (803) 794-6273 * http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
April 10, 2010
TO: Senator Glenn McConnell (R)
Senate President Pro Tempore / Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
27 Bainbridge Drive, Charleston, SC 29407
RE: “Life Beginning at Conception Act” – S.450
- The SC Legal “Personhood” for Preborn Human Beings Bill
SUBJECT: Should a child conceived in circumstances of rape be murdered/executed for the sin/crime of his or her father ?
Dear Senator McConnell,
You have presented the circumstance of the conception of a child by a rape victim as one of the reasons you are not supporting S.450, the SC Personhood Bill. Presumably, you believe it is necessary to allow the victimized mother the “legal” [sic] option to kill the judicially innocent pre-born child in her womb.
The simple, straightforward reply to this is that such an act is evil on its face because God has written, with His own Hand, “Thou shalt not kill (murder).” Exodus 20:13 (KJB). No man or woman ever has the authority to change, or to violate God’s Word. If one truly has a right reverence and Biblical fear of God, then God’s Word is fully sufficient and complete for directing us to the proper decision, including in the difficult matter of a woman who has been impregnated by a rapist. The Bible says, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge…” (Proverb 1:7, KJB); and also “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom…” (Proverb 9:10). If on the other hand, men attempt to “reckon without God,” and ignore His Divine counsel, then we can arrive at incorrect, foolish, and even wicked decisions; even if in our own humanistic thinking, we believe we are being thoughtful, considerate, or compassionate. The Bible says, “… the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.” (Proverb 12:10b, KJB). It is NOT compassionate, it is NOT merciful, it is NOT good, to sustain the option of a woman, even one victimized by a detestable criminal such as a rapist, to murder / execute the child in her womb. That is NOT compassion, it is CRUEL, and it is HATE – hate for the child; how can it be anything else to so violate the child’s humanity, the child’s “personhood”, as to terminally victimize an innocent party to the crime of his or her father ? How is the murder / execution of a judicially innocent human being in the womb of his or her mother, if conceived in a rape, ever consistent with even the most basic fundamentals of law and justice ? How can it be anything but an evil perversion of justice to murder / execute a child for the sin / crime of his or her father ?!!
I believe it is fair to say that you are not only personally not supporting this bill as an individual Senator, but in your role as Judiciary Committee Chairman, you have repeatedly assigned the Personhood bill (which was first introduced in an earlier version in 1998), to an unfavorable Senate Judiciary Subcommittee; certainly this has been the case in the 2005-2006 Session, the 2007-2008 Session; and now, given the refusal of your presently assigned Subcommittee chairman, Senator Jake Knotts, to even granting a public hearing for the bill, is also true for the 2009-2010 Session. This current situation is made more egregious by the dual facts that: 1) 50% of the SC Senate (23 of 46 members) is co-sponsoring the bill; and 2) 50% of Senator Knotts’ Subcommittee (three of six members) is co-sponsoring the bill. While it would appear, numerically, that supporters of the bill lack only one vote to insure success in a Recall effort, one has to wonder how many Senators truly feel they have the liberty to vote their conscience in the matter, and how many fear potential retribution by the President Pro Tempore / Judiciary Chairman down the road ? Are you willing to publicly state these 23 Senators have complete liberty, and no fear of retributive action from you in the future if they vote to Recall this bill ? Or am I being naïve ?; that of course you would take a pound of flesh from them ?
Senator Jake Knotts has also repeatedly brought up the rape issue, and has persisted in his unbiblical and therefore morally unjust view that a woman should have a “choice” to murder / execute her own child because of the sin / crime of a rapist father. Sadly, he maintained this view even when afforded the opportunity to speak face-to-face outside the Senate chamber recently with a woman from Swansea who had been a victim of rape, who conceived, and who gave birth to a daughter, now seven years old, who this mother has received as a blessing in her life. Senator McConnell, you were also presented with the opportunity to speak to this same woman, but expressed your inability to stop and speak at that time. Perhaps you will have another opportunity to hear this woman’s own testimony.
Senator McConnell, you and every other member of the Senate has also been provided a written copy of the testimony of another woman, formerly a resident of Columbia, who had been raped twice, and had conceived twice. She aborted the first baby, and made an adoption plan for the second baby. Her testimony was, “I have been raped twice and have dealt with it both ways.” ABORTION “doesn’t take the rape away; it only adds more guilt and makes a terrible experience more painful.” She continued, “The real victim in a rape pregnancy is the baby. I was a victim but I’m still alive. My baby died a painful, brutal death at the hands of the one who was supposed to protect her – mommy.” Senator McConnell, why will you not heed the testimonies of these women who have lived and dealt with this issue ? “Abortion” doesn’t help anybody, NOT the mother, and certainly NOT the baby. “Abortion” hurts women, and “abortion” kills children – so where is the “good” in any of that ? No, “Abortion” is evil and wrong in the terrible circumstance of rape also.
Senator Knotts has been presented with the name of Ethel Waters, the gifted and well-known singer of an earlier generation (1896-1977). Perhaps you may remember her name also: “Her best-known recording was her version of the spiritual, "His Eye is on the Sparrow", and she was the second African American ever nominated for an Academy Award.” ( Ethel Waters, wikipedia ). How many know the circumstances of this gifted woman’s conception and birth ? “She [ Ethel ] was conceived when her mother, 12 years old at the time, was raped at knifepoint.” [emphasis added] ( www.answers.com/topic/ethel-waters ) Her mother was raped at knife-point – should Ethel Waters have been aborted ? The unjust position of Senators Glenn McConnell and Jake Knotts is that murdering / executing such a one as an Ethel Waters today should be permitted by law. Glenn McConnell and Jake Knotts would justify the taking of such a one’s life today, denying an Ethel Waters her very life, and denying the world the gift that such a one as her life could become. “Waters' recording of "Stormy Weather" (1933) was honored by the Library of Congress. It was listed in the National Recording Registry in 2004.” ( Ethel Waters, wikipedia ).
There are more life-honoring testimonies that could be given. One last one will be given here, that of Julie Makimaa, who actually testified in person before a subcommittee of the South Carolina House in the early 1990’s. Makimaa was also conceived in a circumstance where her mother was raped, and her victimized mother made an adoption plan for her daughter Julie. Julie Makimaa became a recognized public speaker (internet search: “Julie Makimaa”). One author (David C. Reardon, Ph.D.) reported about Julie: “Regarding her own view of her origin, Julie proclaims: "It doesn't matter how I began. What matters is who I will become." www.afterabortion.org/rape.html
Senator McConnell, my prayer is that neither you, nor Senator Knotts, will continue to presume that you, the child’s mother, or any of us, can ever presume to forecast or determine what some child conceived in the terrible circumstance of a rape might become, whether an Ethel Waters, a Julie Makimaa, or some other human being created in the image of God, the sanctity of whose right to life, as given by God alone, is inviolate.
Christ is King (1 Timothy 6:15)
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
director, Columbia Christians for Life
Cc: Senator Jake Knotts (R)
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman
500 W. Dunbar Rd., West Columbia, SC 29169
Click here for a printable version of this letter.
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April 10, 2010
TO: Senator Glenn McConnell (R)
Senate President Pro Tempore / Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
27 Bainbridge Drive, Charleston, SC 29407
RE: “Life Beginning at Conception Act” – S.450
- The SC Legal “Personhood” for Preborn Human Beings Bill
SUBJECT: Should a child conceived in circumstances of rape be murdered/executed for the sin/crime of his or her father ?
Dear Senator McConnell,
You have presented the circumstance of the conception of a child by a rape victim as one of the reasons you are not supporting S.450, the SC Personhood Bill. Presumably, you believe it is necessary to allow the victimized mother the “legal” [sic] option to kill the judicially innocent pre-born child in her womb.
The simple, straightforward reply to this is that such an act is evil on its face because God has written, with His own Hand, “Thou shalt not kill (murder).” Exodus 20:13 (KJB). No man or woman ever has the authority to change, or to violate God’s Word. If one truly has a right reverence and Biblical fear of God, then God’s Word is fully sufficient and complete for directing us to the proper decision, including in the difficult matter of a woman who has been impregnated by a rapist. The Bible says, “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge…” (Proverb 1:7, KJB); and also “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom…” (Proverb 9:10). If on the other hand, men attempt to “reckon without God,” and ignore His Divine counsel, then we can arrive at incorrect, foolish, and even wicked decisions; even if in our own humanistic thinking, we believe we are being thoughtful, considerate, or compassionate. The Bible says, “… the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.” (Proverb 12:10b, KJB). It is NOT compassionate, it is NOT merciful, it is NOT good, to sustain the option of a woman, even one victimized by a detestable criminal such as a rapist, to murder / execute the child in her womb. That is NOT compassion, it is CRUEL, and it is HATE – hate for the child; how can it be anything else to so violate the child’s humanity, the child’s “personhood”, as to terminally victimize an innocent party to the crime of his or her father ? How is the murder / execution of a judicially innocent human being in the womb of his or her mother, if conceived in a rape, ever consistent with even the most basic fundamentals of law and justice ? How can it be anything but an evil perversion of justice to murder / execute a child for the sin / crime of his or her father ?!!
I believe it is fair to say that you are not only personally not supporting this bill as an individual Senator, but in your role as Judiciary Committee Chairman, you have repeatedly assigned the Personhood bill (which was first introduced in an earlier version in 1998), to an unfavorable Senate Judiciary Subcommittee; certainly this has been the case in the 2005-2006 Session, the 2007-2008 Session; and now, given the refusal of your presently assigned Subcommittee chairman, Senator Jake Knotts, to even granting a public hearing for the bill, is also true for the 2009-2010 Session. This current situation is made more egregious by the dual facts that: 1) 50% of the SC Senate (23 of 46 members) is co-sponsoring the bill; and 2) 50% of Senator Knotts’ Subcommittee (three of six members) is co-sponsoring the bill. While it would appear, numerically, that supporters of the bill lack only one vote to insure success in a Recall effort, one has to wonder how many Senators truly feel they have the liberty to vote their conscience in the matter, and how many fear potential retribution by the President Pro Tempore / Judiciary Chairman down the road ? Are you willing to publicly state these 23 Senators have complete liberty, and no fear of retributive action from you in the future if they vote to Recall this bill ? Or am I being naïve ?; that of course you would take a pound of flesh from them ?
Senator Jake Knotts has also repeatedly brought up the rape issue, and has persisted in his unbiblical and therefore morally unjust view that a woman should have a “choice” to murder / execute her own child because of the sin / crime of a rapist father. Sadly, he maintained this view even when afforded the opportunity to speak face-to-face outside the Senate chamber recently with a woman from Swansea who had been a victim of rape, who conceived, and who gave birth to a daughter, now seven years old, who this mother has received as a blessing in her life. Senator McConnell, you were also presented with the opportunity to speak to this same woman, but expressed your inability to stop and speak at that time. Perhaps you will have another opportunity to hear this woman’s own testimony.
Senator McConnell, you and every other member of the Senate has also been provided a written copy of the testimony of another woman, formerly a resident of Columbia, who had been raped twice, and had conceived twice. She aborted the first baby, and made an adoption plan for the second baby. Her testimony was, “I have been raped twice and have dealt with it both ways.” ABORTION “doesn’t take the rape away; it only adds more guilt and makes a terrible experience more painful.” She continued, “The real victim in a rape pregnancy is the baby. I was a victim but I’m still alive. My baby died a painful, brutal death at the hands of the one who was supposed to protect her – mommy.” Senator McConnell, why will you not heed the testimonies of these women who have lived and dealt with this issue ? “Abortion” doesn’t help anybody, NOT the mother, and certainly NOT the baby. “Abortion” hurts women, and “abortion” kills children – so where is the “good” in any of that ? No, “Abortion” is evil and wrong in the terrible circumstance of rape also.
Senator Knotts has been presented with the name of Ethel Waters, the gifted and well-known singer of an earlier generation (1896-1977). Perhaps you may remember her name also: “Her best-known recording was her version of the spiritual, "His Eye is on the Sparrow", and she was the second African American ever nominated for an Academy Award.” ( Ethel Waters, wikipedia ). How many know the circumstances of this gifted woman’s conception and birth ? “She [ Ethel ] was conceived when her mother, 12 years old at the time, was raped at knifepoint.” [emphasis added] ( www.answers.com/topic/ethel-waters ) Her mother was raped at knife-point – should Ethel Waters have been aborted ? The unjust position of Senators Glenn McConnell and Jake Knotts is that murdering / executing such a one as an Ethel Waters today should be permitted by law. Glenn McConnell and Jake Knotts would justify the taking of such a one’s life today, denying an Ethel Waters her very life, and denying the world the gift that such a one as her life could become. “Waters' recording of "Stormy Weather" (1933) was honored by the Library of Congress. It was listed in the National Recording Registry in 2004.” ( Ethel Waters, wikipedia ).
There are more life-honoring testimonies that could be given. One last one will be given here, that of Julie Makimaa, who actually testified in person before a subcommittee of the South Carolina House in the early 1990’s. Makimaa was also conceived in a circumstance where her mother was raped, and her victimized mother made an adoption plan for her daughter Julie. Julie Makimaa became a recognized public speaker (internet search: “Julie Makimaa”). One author (David C. Reardon, Ph.D.) reported about Julie: “Regarding her own view of her origin, Julie proclaims: "It doesn't matter how I began. What matters is who I will become." www.afterabortion.org/rape.html
Senator McConnell, my prayer is that neither you, nor Senator Knotts, will continue to presume that you, the child’s mother, or any of us, can ever presume to forecast or determine what some child conceived in the terrible circumstance of a rape might become, whether an Ethel Waters, a Julie Makimaa, or some other human being created in the image of God, the sanctity of whose right to life, as given by God alone, is inviolate.
Christ is King (1 Timothy 6:15)
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
director, Columbia Christians for Life
Cc: Senator Jake Knotts (R)
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman
500 W. Dunbar Rd., West Columbia, SC 29169
Click here for a printable version of this letter.
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