By Dr. Patrick Johnston
The Covenant News ~ July 10, 2006
www.covenantnews.com/johnston060708.htm
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We have heard much about the historic abortion ban that was passed by the South Dakota legislature and signed by the Governor on March 6, 2006. What you may not have heard about was how National Right to Life joined pro-abortion groups to kill the South Dakota abortion ban in 2004.
Pro-life representatives initially had the vote to pass the 2004 abortion ban, but Right to Life leader and Republican South Dakota Senator Jay Duenwald strongly lobbied in opposition to it and ultimately turned the tide and caused it to fail by one vote. National Right to Life spokespersons and officers of their state affiliate opposed the bill because they claimed it was not the right time. The media quoted Right to Life leaders as an authority that the abortion ban was untimely. Right to Life did support an amendment to the bill that removed the bill's criminal language, but Representative Matt McCaulley, the chief sponsor of the abortion ban, would not compromise on re-criminalizing abortion - not with NOW, not with NARAL, not with Planned Parenthood, and not with Right to Life.
Representative McCaulley observed, "There is something horribly wrong when South Dakota Right to Life and Planned Parenthood are on the same side of an issue."
What an unbelievable outrage! The largest pro-life group in America joining with pro-abortion groups to help keep abortion legal!
In response to Right to Life's opposition to the South Dakota abortion ban, Notre Dame Law Professor Emeritus and respected national pro-life leader, Charles E. Rice, referred to them as a "barnacle on the pro-life ship of state" and a "frequent embarrassment to the pro-life cause." He indicted National Right to Life as "an organization (that) has rarely met a compromise it did not like. In this case, the South Dakota affiliate of NRLC actively derailed the useful and sound, no compromise bill as passed by the House of Representatives."
Leslee Unruh, a long-time member of Right to Life and Director of the South Dakota Alpha Health Center, an abortion counseling service, was outraged: "We were shocked, saddened and dismayed that National Right to Life lobbied against this bill. In effect, they aborted the right to life bill."
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, who drafted the South Dakota abortion ban, accused National Right to Life of betrayal: "It is one thing for National Right to Life to disagree with the timing of a bill banning abortions, it is another thing for them to join forces with pro-abortionists to kill the ban - it is a betrayal of the unborn and pro-life movement. When is it the wrong time to do what is right? This organization has lost the moral authority to lead the pro- life cause." (Thomas More Law Center's full criticism of Right to Life's fatal compromise.)
With pro-lifers like this, who needs pro-choicers? With the Judas Iscariot kissing the unborn's cheek with their pro-life rhetoric and stabbing them in the back with their actions, the butchers of God's children have found the perfect accomplice. Over 2,000 children were aborted from the time of the failed abortion ban of2004 to the abortion ban of 2006, and Right to Life is responsible.
On June 13, 2006, Right to Life kissed the cheek of the pre-born in Ohio. Their rhetoric that the unborn should be protected and that abortion should be outlawed infuriated the pro-choicers just as it thrilled the pro-lifers that packed the Health Committee hearing room at the Ohio statehouse. But the speech was concluded by an expression of Right to Life's reluctance to endorse the Ohio abortion ban, House Bill 228, a reluctance exploited by questions from the Committee Chairman, John R. White, who appears all too happy to adopt Right to Life's excuses as reasons to shelve the Ohio abortion ban and not let it out of committee.
Why did Right to Life help keep abortion legal in Ohio? Let's examine their reasons. Right to Life's reason for not supporting the bill was concern that the Supreme Court would not uphold it. They expressed concern that the Supreme Court would reject the language of House Bill 228 that re-criminalized all abortion, and yet accept the deletion of portions of Ohio's code that regulates abortion, legislation for which Right to Life has worked hard over the past decade (if abortion was banned, informed consent legislation, right-to-know legislation, mandatory waiting periods, and partial birth abortion bans would no longer be necessary.) Thus, Right to Life speculates that the Supreme Court might transform this pro-life bill into practically a pro-abortion bill, effectively wiping out all abortion regulation for which Right to Life has fought hard over the past decade.
Such speculation is completely groundless, as there is no historical precedent that the Court might interpret a law to be the opposite of the plain language of the legislation and the expressed intent of the authors of the legislation. The intent of the lawmaker constitutes the law - that's a standard judicial rule for interpreting and evaluating legislation. Activist judges have dreamed up rights like a right to privacy from the Constitution, but have they ever interpreted a piece of legislation to be the opposite of the intent of its authors?
The Ohio Republicans who claimed to be "pro-life," who might have supported the bill if pro-life leaders united behind it, were emboldened with their criticism of the bill: "I'm pro-life, but I'm not Draconian either," said Republican state Representative Bob Gibbs. The bill "goes too far, too quick." In other words, I'm pro-life, but I don't want to stop the killing too quickly. How about when my term's expired?"
It was too stringent," Republican state Rep. John Hagan commented. "It was a pretty harsh approach to the issue." In other words, Stopping baby dismemberment by prosecuting the baby-butchers is just too stringent and harsh. Can we just pass a resolution that says we are pro-life?"
I don't feel in good conscience that (challenging Roe v. Wade) justifies passing an unconstitutional bill," Republican state Rep. Bill Seitz said. "It's tough, because absolutists don't necessarily understand that."In other words, My conscience won't let me stop the killing of innocent Ohioans if an activist judge finds the right to an abortion in the Constitution. It's so tough to follow your conscience with all those absolutists who believe "Thou shalt not murder" isn't negotiable…
"We have a Constitution. We have Federal law. We can't pass a bill that's unconstitutional and preserve life," Republican Rep. Jim Aslanides stated. In other words, We have to do whatever activist judges say, even if they say that we must allow innocent people to be killed in Ohio. I wonder, would Rep. Aslanides let the government legalize the killing of infants if an activist Federal judge found that in the Constitution, too?
One can only wonder how these pro-life state reps could possibly consider the Ohio abortion ban to be unconstitutional. You'd think the fifth amendment to the Constitution, which states that the government shall not deprive another of life or liberty without a trial by jury, and Article 1 Section 1 of the Ohio Constitution, which says that all men have the inalienable right to life and liberty, would convince pro-lifers that abortion is unconstitutional and local and state bans of federally-justified murder are appropriate.
There is one common thread in all these excuses for not supporting Ohio's abortion ban: statism, or supreme allegiance to the state over God. Why does Ohio think that we are obligated to submit to the Supreme Court's opinion on abortion? Even renown pro-life leaders Janet Folger and Dr. John Willke, who testified in defense of House Bill 228 at the hearings, stated that the fate of House Bill 228 would ultimately rest with the Supreme Court and that it would be several years before Ohio's abortion ban would be enforceable. What? Are we going to pass an abortion ban and respect its suspension by a Federal judge? Are Ohio's leaders going to obey the Creator and re-criminalize abortion within their jurisdiction or are they going to obey activist judges? It is impossible for our state's leaders to be in good standing with Federal judges and with God-Almighty simultaneously if the judges order Ohio not to prosecute child-killers and God Almighty insists that we do.
Governor Mike Rounds of South Dakota who signed their abortion ban this year declared that he would not enforce the abortion ban until the Supreme Court heard it, and implied that he would adhere to the Supreme Court's decision if they overruled it. I can only wonder if he would respect the Supreme Court if it decided that his children should be dismembered and executed, or would he do the right thing and protect the children within the bounds of his jurisdiction? To respect Roe v. Wade is to respect lawlessness and disrespect God's absolute standard of morality and justice, Governor Bounds.
Is the Supreme Court divine, my dear pro-life friends? Does the Supreme Court have the power to overrule the Court of Heaven? Who is Lord of heaven and earth - who is Lord over all of Ohio and South Dakota? Whose law reigns supreme? When man defies God's Word and calls evil good and good evil, with whom will we side?
This is the age-old question: Adam had to answer it before the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the church of Germany had to answer it when Hitler commanded them to submit to Nazi doctrine, and men and women must answer it when the anti-christ commands them to worship a false image and take the mark of the beast. Who is Lord? To whom do we owe supreme allegiance? Man or God?
If Jesus Christ is Lord and the Bible is His revealed Word, then God's Word takes precedence over the opinions of rebels in black dresses. Over and over again, God's Word calls human beings in the womb "children." The God of the Bible mandates the same civil penalty for those who would kill the pre-born as for those who would kill the born (Exodus 21:22-24). Moreover, God commands civil authorities to do justice on behalf of all those within their jurisdiction (Romans 13:1-7). Deuteronomy 21:1-9 tells us that the community nearest to the murder is responsible for bringing the murderers to justice and the curse of innocent blood falls upon that community if it fails to do justice.
Ohioans have no business pointing our fingers at the Supreme Court or the U.S. Congress for the shedding of innocent blood that Ohio allows. God's wrath abides on Ohio for the innocent blood that has been shed in our state, and God commands Ohio's civil authorities to purge our land from the guilt of innocent blood by the swift execution of murderers (Genesis 9:6, Numbers 35:30-34, and Romans 13:3-4). God's Word is not negated by the objections of any human opinion.
What then should we do? Let there be no ambiguity: God All-mighty commands, not suggests or recommends, but commands state and local civil authorities to bring all abortionists to justice and protect the innocent who are being slaughtered within their state. If you must defy that ol' Serpent, the Supreme Court, every voter in your district, and an invading Federal Army in order to obey God, then you must obey God! He will hold you personally accountable if you do not. He is angry with you if you do not. If you let the annual Holocaust of 34,000 innocent Ohioans continue in your jurisdiction, then woe be unto you!
Governor Mike Rounds has been heralded as a hero for signing the first state's abortion ban that directly challenges Roe v. Wade, but I will not be too hasty with my praise, for the last chapter of that book has not yet been written. If Governor Mike Rounds accepts a Supreme Court's overruling of his state's ban, and if he lets murderers continue to kill children in his jurisdiction without prosecuting and bringing them to justice, I wouldn't want to be in his shoes on Judgment Day for all the gold in the world! God commands local civil authorities to do justice within their jurisdiction, and Governor Rounds and the South Dakota legislature must either submit unto God's Word or they are in rebellion to the Judge of heaven and earth. There is no middle ground for civil authorities: either you do justice and please the Judge of all the earth, or you do injustice and infuriate Him.
A death sentence was passed against the Third Reich Minister of the Interior, Wilhelm Frick. What was his crime? He knew of the atrocities committed in the Nazi death camps but did not do what was in his power to stop them.
Take heed, compromisers. Take heed, pro-life statists in our statehouses. Take heed, Right to Life - Judas Iscariots of the pro-life movement - your lovely rhetoric and your fair kisses are insufficient substitutes for obedience and for justice. The Judge of nations will avenge the innocent blood that Ohio has shed, if we do not. And it will not be pro-choicers and Democrats bearing the brunt of His wrath. It'll be Right to Life, pro-life Republicans, and Christian conservatives who don't think the timing's right for an abortion ban, or who respect the Supreme Court's disrespect of God's immutable laws and disregard of their neighbor's inalienable rights. Judgment must first begin at the House of God.
Published originally at NewsWithViews.com
Dr. Johnston practices family medicine in Zanesville, Ohio, and is Vice Chairman of the Constitutional Party of Ohio. His ministry is Right Remedy.
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Amen, Dr. Patrick Johnston !
A similar betrayal of the unborn by National Right to Life has been experienced here in South Carolina as well. The South Carolina chapter of National Right to Life is called "South Carolina Citizens for Life" (SCCL). The SCCL executive director, Holly Gatling, has never publicly supported South Carolina's "personhood" bill for the unborn, called the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina" (see link to H.3213/S.111from the homepage of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/), even though it has been an active bill in the SC House of Representatives every year, continuously, since 1998, when it was first introduced, and was also an active bill in the SC Senate in 1998, 2005, and 2006. By recognizing the legal "personhood" of the unborn at fertilization, all abortions would be banned, under the authority of Article I., Section 3. of the SC State Constitution (http://www.scstatehouse.net/). As was stated 33 years ago, right within the text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision itself:
"If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
July 10, 2006
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
July 10, 2006
Battle continues in South Dakota over state-level bill that bans most abortions
This South Dakota bill does not recognize the legal "personhood" of all pre-birth human beings because it allows for a life-of-the-mother "exception" to a ban on child-murder-by-abortion. It does aim to protect children conceived in the cases of rape and incest. The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision said 33 years ago that "If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/14998885.htm?source=rss&channel=inquirer_nation
Posted on Sun, Jul. 09, 2006
Unpredictable lines in S.D. abortion fight
By Paul Nussbaum
Inquirer Staff Writer
One in an occasional series
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - From the rocking chair on his back porch, Roger Hunt can see beyond the apple trees, vegetable garden and neighboring fields to the future.
"The appointment of [Samuel] Alito and [John] Roberts gives us four of nine justices," said Hunt, the legislator who sponsored South Dakota's new law that bans virtually all abortions. "Maybe [Anthony] Kennedy or another justice would vote with them. But even if not, Stevens is 86 years old.
"So there is a strong likelihood that President Bush will get an opportunity to appoint another judge to the Supreme Court. I think that within three years, we will have five pro-life judges. And it will take this legislation three years to get there."
That's the calculus of abortion politics here, as South Dakota prepares for a showdown on the nation's most restrictive abortion law: The time is ripe to topple Roe v. Wade, and this is the case to do it.
Now there's a wrinkle. Those opposed to the abortion ban have gathered enough signatures to block the new law until a referendum in November. For the first time in the 33 years since Roe, voters will decide whether to outlaw abortion.
So America's abortion war - with its religious and political and moral overtones - has moved to the prairie. The wholesome, unpretentious land of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) and Norm van Brocklin (the Philadelphia Eagles) is girding for an ugly season of politicking over fetuses, rape and incest.
The fight has splintered this conservative state in unpredictable ways, turning Republicans against Republicans, Democrats against Democrats, wives against husbands. And South Dakotans, who pride themselves on their independence, have become proxies in a national battle.
Both sides predict victory in a close, emotional contest.
"This is a very significant strategic departure for us," said Sarah Stoesz, president of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. "This is not the strategy the reproductive-rights movement usually uses. We tend to file lawsuits.
"But we know we have to build a broader movement in the country if we're going to sustain our rights over time. Lawsuits win tactical skirmishes, but they don't build political movements."
The South Dakota law makes abortion illegal except to prevent the death of the mother. It makes felons of doctors who perform abortions. It provides no exception for pregnancies that result from rape or incest.
The sweeping nature of the law provides the desired direct legal challenge to Roe. But it also undercuts its popular support.
"It's too strong; there aren't enough exceptions," a middle-aged woman said outside the post office in Brookings. "If I were raped, I don't know if I'd want to have the baby."
"Oh, don't get me started," said Peggy Kolb, a hotel manager in Sioux Falls. "It just infuriates me. That decision shouldn't be left to the politicians."
A coworker, Deb Shorr, said, "I don't agree with abortion. But that goes too far."
Walter Bones, who farms the land his great-grandfather homesteaded outside Parker, said the lack of a rape-or-incest provision "is not a big enough issue" to erode his support for the law. "There is value in every life," he said.
"My wife is on the other side, though," Bones said. "We do a pretty good job of canceling each other out."
Nationwide surveys show an ambivalence about abortion that makes yes-or-no answers difficult for many Americans. And while South Dakota is clearly more opposed to abortion than the nation as a whole, the same types of divisions are apparent here.
Nationwide, 30 percent of Americans say abortion should be legal under any circumstances, 15 percent say it should be illegal in all circumstances, and 53 percent say it should be legal under certain circumstances, according to the Gallup poll's latest survey on the issue in May. Asked if they would liketo see Roe overturned, 55 percent said no and 32 percent said yes.
Most Americans, by a margin of 58-34 percent, say they would oppose a national law like South Dakota's, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center.
In South Dakota, "if the vote were today, I think they would overturn the law," said David Kranz, longtime political writer for the Argus-Leader newspaper in Sioux Falls. "But the pro-life people are much more organized, by a long shot.
"There is only one clinic in the state that performs abortions, a low, brick Planned Parenthood office on the edge of Sioux Falls. About 800 abortions were performed in South Dakota last year, and the state's abortion rate (5 per 1,000 women aged 15-44) is among the nation's lowest (national average rate is 16). About 25 percent of the population is Roman Catholic; the church has been active in support of the ban.
The state's politics are shaped by its geography. West River, the half of the state west of the Missouri River, is home to the Badlands, Mount Rushmore, Deadwood, and a hardy streak of libertarian sentiment. The eastern half is more like its Midwestern neighbors, with rolling fields of corn, soybeans and alfalfa, and traditional Midwestern values.
Republicans dominate the state that was once best known for producing Democrats such as Sens. George McGovern and Tom Daschle. Republican Gov. Mike Rounds signed the abortion ban, and the GOP easily controls both houses of the Legislature.
But the sides in the abortion fight have not been drawn strictly along party or gender lines. Of the 34 legislators who voted against the abortion law, 17 were Republicans and 17 were Democrats. And of the 17 women in the Legislature, 12 voted for the law.
"It's not a partisan issue," said Rep. Kathy Miles, a Democrat who is a leading supporter of the new law. "My district is very Democratic and very pro-life. This has always been a pro-life state - it's something that people in South Dakota feel strongly about."
Miles said abortions in cases of rape or incest make a woman a victim twice. "Is it the child's fault how they were conceived? Two wrongs don't make a right."
Rep. Casey Murschel, a Republican actively opposed to the law and instrumental in gathering signatures to force a referendum on the issue, said, "When it gets down to it, this is more government than South Dakotans want," she said. "... Most South Dakotans have an independent streak, and they don't need everyone sticking their nose in their business."
When the two parties held their conventions last month, Republicans urged GOP voters to support the law and soundly defeated an amendment to acknowledge that some "people of good conscience" have qualms about the lack of a rape-and-incest provision. Democrats are encouraging party members to vote their conscience on a matter of "personal conscience and personal faith."
The South Dakota Medical Association weighed in last month, too, saying it "strongly condemns interference by the government or other third parties that causes a physician to compromise his or her medical judgment as to what information or treatment is in the best interest of patients." The medical association said the "scientific basis for the bill's enactment is flawed" and "potentially criminalizes the provision of medical care and procedures that may be in the best interest of patients."
Leslee Unruh, a national leader in the abstinence-only sex-education movement, is taking a leave from her post in Sioux Falls to lead the campaign for the new abortion law. Unruh, who had an abortion in 1977 when she was 22, has turned her abstinence and abortion activism into political power. She displays a picture of her and President Bush, taken at the White House, and says she hopes to get Bush to South Dakota to campaign for the law.
At the same time, she is critical of the failure of national Republicans to support the South Dakota abortion ban.
"Republicans can find another way to win elections. And the national pro-life movement didn't do this, we did. When we overturn Roe, and we will, it will be because of these women here. The killing stops here."
Maria Bell, a gynecological oncologist at Sioux Valley Hospital who is actively opposing the law, has shifted her two children from Catholic school to public school because of taunts from other students. And she said her parents have revised their will to remove the Catholic diocese as a beneficiary; the money will go instead to Planned Parenthood.
"Three years ago, I had a case that would be felony under this law," she said, shaking her head. If the law stands, she said more women would have unsafe abortions or use dangerous medicines obtained on the Internet to try to end pregnancies.
"If you're a 16-year-old girl on the farm, where do you go?
"I truly believe this is about the subjugation of women, period," Bell said.
Both sides in South Dakota's abortion battle predict a nasty, noisy campaign, with lots of money and supporters from out of state.
"It will be heavily waged. It will be messy," said Elaine Roberts, a Democratic legislator and former teacher active in the effort to repeal the law. "But I really think that in the end, South Dakotans will look at this and say, 'It's not the best public policy.'
"But then, what next? This isn't the end."
On that, Miles, the Democratic representative campaigning for the law, agrees.
"I'm guessing this won't go away," she said. "Hopefully, this will go to the Supreme Court. That was the intent going into it."
Contact staff writer Paul Nussbaum at 215-854-4587 or pnussbaum@phillynews.com.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/14998885.htm?source=rss&channel=inquirer_nation
Posted on Sun, Jul. 09, 2006
Unpredictable lines in S.D. abortion fight
By Paul Nussbaum
Inquirer Staff Writer
One in an occasional series
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - From the rocking chair on his back porch, Roger Hunt can see beyond the apple trees, vegetable garden and neighboring fields to the future.
"The appointment of [Samuel] Alito and [John] Roberts gives us four of nine justices," said Hunt, the legislator who sponsored South Dakota's new law that bans virtually all abortions. "Maybe [Anthony] Kennedy or another justice would vote with them. But even if not, Stevens is 86 years old.
"So there is a strong likelihood that President Bush will get an opportunity to appoint another judge to the Supreme Court. I think that within three years, we will have five pro-life judges. And it will take this legislation three years to get there."
That's the calculus of abortion politics here, as South Dakota prepares for a showdown on the nation's most restrictive abortion law: The time is ripe to topple Roe v. Wade, and this is the case to do it.
Now there's a wrinkle. Those opposed to the abortion ban have gathered enough signatures to block the new law until a referendum in November. For the first time in the 33 years since Roe, voters will decide whether to outlaw abortion.
So America's abortion war - with its religious and political and moral overtones - has moved to the prairie. The wholesome, unpretentious land of Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) and Norm van Brocklin (the Philadelphia Eagles) is girding for an ugly season of politicking over fetuses, rape and incest.
The fight has splintered this conservative state in unpredictable ways, turning Republicans against Republicans, Democrats against Democrats, wives against husbands. And South Dakotans, who pride themselves on their independence, have become proxies in a national battle.
Both sides predict victory in a close, emotional contest.
"This is a very significant strategic departure for us," said Sarah Stoesz, president of Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. "This is not the strategy the reproductive-rights movement usually uses. We tend to file lawsuits.
"But we know we have to build a broader movement in the country if we're going to sustain our rights over time. Lawsuits win tactical skirmishes, but they don't build political movements."
The South Dakota law makes abortion illegal except to prevent the death of the mother. It makes felons of doctors who perform abortions. It provides no exception for pregnancies that result from rape or incest.
The sweeping nature of the law provides the desired direct legal challenge to Roe. But it also undercuts its popular support.
"It's too strong; there aren't enough exceptions," a middle-aged woman said outside the post office in Brookings. "If I were raped, I don't know if I'd want to have the baby."
"Oh, don't get me started," said Peggy Kolb, a hotel manager in Sioux Falls. "It just infuriates me. That decision shouldn't be left to the politicians."
A coworker, Deb Shorr, said, "I don't agree with abortion. But that goes too far."
Walter Bones, who farms the land his great-grandfather homesteaded outside Parker, said the lack of a rape-or-incest provision "is not a big enough issue" to erode his support for the law. "There is value in every life," he said.
"My wife is on the other side, though," Bones said. "We do a pretty good job of canceling each other out."
Nationwide surveys show an ambivalence about abortion that makes yes-or-no answers difficult for many Americans. And while South Dakota is clearly more opposed to abortion than the nation as a whole, the same types of divisions are apparent here.
Nationwide, 30 percent of Americans say abortion should be legal under any circumstances, 15 percent say it should be illegal in all circumstances, and 53 percent say it should be legal under certain circumstances, according to the Gallup poll's latest survey on the issue in May. Asked if they would liketo see Roe overturned, 55 percent said no and 32 percent said yes.
Most Americans, by a margin of 58-34 percent, say they would oppose a national law like South Dakota's, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center.
In South Dakota, "if the vote were today, I think they would overturn the law," said David Kranz, longtime political writer for the Argus-Leader newspaper in Sioux Falls. "But the pro-life people are much more organized, by a long shot.
"There is only one clinic in the state that performs abortions, a low, brick Planned Parenthood office on the edge of Sioux Falls. About 800 abortions were performed in South Dakota last year, and the state's abortion rate (5 per 1,000 women aged 15-44) is among the nation's lowest (national average rate is 16). About 25 percent of the population is Roman Catholic; the church has been active in support of the ban.
The state's politics are shaped by its geography. West River, the half of the state west of the Missouri River, is home to the Badlands, Mount Rushmore, Deadwood, and a hardy streak of libertarian sentiment. The eastern half is more like its Midwestern neighbors, with rolling fields of corn, soybeans and alfalfa, and traditional Midwestern values.
Republicans dominate the state that was once best known for producing Democrats such as Sens. George McGovern and Tom Daschle. Republican Gov. Mike Rounds signed the abortion ban, and the GOP easily controls both houses of the Legislature.
But the sides in the abortion fight have not been drawn strictly along party or gender lines. Of the 34 legislators who voted against the abortion law, 17 were Republicans and 17 were Democrats. And of the 17 women in the Legislature, 12 voted for the law.
"It's not a partisan issue," said Rep. Kathy Miles, a Democrat who is a leading supporter of the new law. "My district is very Democratic and very pro-life. This has always been a pro-life state - it's something that people in South Dakota feel strongly about."
Miles said abortions in cases of rape or incest make a woman a victim twice. "Is it the child's fault how they were conceived? Two wrongs don't make a right."
Rep. Casey Murschel, a Republican actively opposed to the law and instrumental in gathering signatures to force a referendum on the issue, said, "When it gets down to it, this is more government than South Dakotans want," she said. "... Most South Dakotans have an independent streak, and they don't need everyone sticking their nose in their business."
When the two parties held their conventions last month, Republicans urged GOP voters to support the law and soundly defeated an amendment to acknowledge that some "people of good conscience" have qualms about the lack of a rape-and-incest provision. Democrats are encouraging party members to vote their conscience on a matter of "personal conscience and personal faith."
The South Dakota Medical Association weighed in last month, too, saying it "strongly condemns interference by the government or other third parties that causes a physician to compromise his or her medical judgment as to what information or treatment is in the best interest of patients." The medical association said the "scientific basis for the bill's enactment is flawed" and "potentially criminalizes the provision of medical care and procedures that may be in the best interest of patients."
Leslee Unruh, a national leader in the abstinence-only sex-education movement, is taking a leave from her post in Sioux Falls to lead the campaign for the new abortion law. Unruh, who had an abortion in 1977 when she was 22, has turned her abstinence and abortion activism into political power. She displays a picture of her and President Bush, taken at the White House, and says she hopes to get Bush to South Dakota to campaign for the law.
At the same time, she is critical of the failure of national Republicans to support the South Dakota abortion ban.
"Republicans can find another way to win elections. And the national pro-life movement didn't do this, we did. When we overturn Roe, and we will, it will be because of these women here. The killing stops here."
Maria Bell, a gynecological oncologist at Sioux Valley Hospital who is actively opposing the law, has shifted her two children from Catholic school to public school because of taunts from other students. And she said her parents have revised their will to remove the Catholic diocese as a beneficiary; the money will go instead to Planned Parenthood.
"Three years ago, I had a case that would be felony under this law," she said, shaking her head. If the law stands, she said more women would have unsafe abortions or use dangerous medicines obtained on the Internet to try to end pregnancies.
"If you're a 16-year-old girl on the farm, where do you go?
"I truly believe this is about the subjugation of women, period," Bell said.
Both sides in South Dakota's abortion battle predict a nasty, noisy campaign, with lots of money and supporters from out of state.
"It will be heavily waged. It will be messy," said Elaine Roberts, a Democratic legislator and former teacher active in the effort to repeal the law. "But I really think that in the end, South Dakotans will look at this and say, 'It's not the best public policy.'
"But then, what next? This isn't the end."
On that, Miles, the Democratic representative campaigning for the law, agrees.
"I'm guessing this won't go away," she said. "Hopefully, this will go to the Supreme Court. That was the intent going into it."
Contact staff writer Paul Nussbaum at 215-854-4587 or pnussbaum@phillynews.com.
June 14, 2006
2006 Hurricane Season: God's "whirlwind of correction" upon South Carolina?
2006 Hurricane season:
God's "whirlwind of correction" upon South Carolina ?
...a state that professes to believe in Him,...
and had an opportunity to ban state-protected child-killing,...
but refused.
God's "whirlwind of correction" upon South Carolina ?
...a state that professes to believe in Him,...
and had an opportunity to ban state-protected child-killing,...
but refused.
"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required;..."
Luke 12:48b, KJV
One in Six Americans Could be Directly Impacted by 2006 Hurricane Season
AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center Forecasts Potential Ripple Effect for All Americans
AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center, May 15, 2006
"Out of the south cometh the whirlwind ...
He [God] causeth it to come, whether for correction, or ... "
Job 37:9,13 (KJV)
Much of the South Carolina coast is at 'Very High' or 'High' risk for a hurricane in the coming months. Will God send His whirlwind of correction upon a state that professes to believe in Him, and had an opportunity to ban state-protected child-killing, but refused ?
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AccuWeather.com Hurricane Center Forecasts Potential Ripple Effect for All Americans"
As early as July, and through much of the rest of the season, the highest level of risk shifts to the Carolinas."
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East Coast a Major Threat Area for 2006 Hurricane Season Factors and Information
"The 2006 Hurricane Season forecast this year is highlighting the region from the Carolinas northeast as the prime area for above-normal risk of impact from hurricane activity."
"Along the East Coast, southeastern Florida and the Carolinas have the highest statistical risk of landfalls, since the greatest number of storms over the course of record keeping have hit in these two areas. Our forecast measures likelihood relative to normal and shows that, in spite of the normally higher number of storms expected, the Carolinas are still in an above-normal risk region. This means the greatest overall threat of a landfall will be on the Carolina coastline, but the greatest elevated threat, in relationship to averages, will be in New England."
Conclusions:
"The initial forecast is for six landfalling tropical cyclones. Of these six, there will be three major hurricane hits this year on the United States coast, two hurricanes of Category 2 or less and one tropical storm. AccuWeather.com forecasts two areas of prime concern during the upcoming hurricane season -- the Carolinas northward at the heart of the season and the western Gulf Coast earlier in the season."
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South Carolina's pro-life bill to end "legalized" abortion (House bill H.3213 / Senate bill S.111)
"South Carolina's only bill to ban all baby-killing dies as Silence and Inaction by a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee with 4 out of 5 voting members Republicans, results in no action taken by the end of the regular session, June 1, 2006 (same day as the start of the 2006 Hurricane season)."
"The Republicans are the majority in the South Carolina State Senate (26 R's to 20 D's)."
"It is the Republicans who are the majority in the State Senate who are responsible for refusing to take action to pass the Right to Life Act of SC by June 1, 2006, thus killing SC's baby-killing ban bill. It is the SC Senate Republicans, from the political party now in power, who are therefore responsible for prolonging child-murder-by-surgical-abortion in our state."
Republican State Senators refuse to pass South Carolina's pro-life bill to end "legalized" abortion
The State
Columbia, SC
(South Carolina's largest newspaper, weekday circulation approx. 116,000/day)
Posted on Tue, May. 23, 2006
Republicans hold up right to life bill
By STEVE LEFEMINE
Guest columnist
"Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."James 4:17
Genesis 4:10; Exodus 20:13; Numbers 35:33; Hosea 4:2; Jeremiah 26:15; Psalm 106:37-42; Jeremaih 19:3-5; 2 Kings 24:1-4
6,500-plus children murdered by surgical abortion per year within the borders of South Carolina, in a state with hundreds and hundreds of churches, and hundreds of thousands of professing evangelical Christians.
"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required;..."
Luke 12:48b, KJV
125 murdered children per week in South Carolina:
Charleston - 55 per week; Greenville - 45 per week; Columbia - 25 per week (2004 DHEC statistics).
"If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold we knew it not; doth not He that pondereth the heart consider it ? and He that keepeth thy soul, doth not He know it ? and shall not He render to every man according to his works ?"
Proverbs 24:10-12
Psalm 82:3,4
Matthew 25:40,45
Matthew 19:19 and Luke 10:27
You can see the text and co-sponsors of bills H.3213 and S.111 from the homepage link at: http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ or go to the SC Legislative website at: www.scstatehouse.net
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Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
June 14, 2006
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June 09, 2006
SC's Republican-majority State Senate kills the SC baby-killing ban bill
South Carolina's pro-life bill to end "legalized" abortion (House bill H.3213 / Senate bill S.111)
South Carolina's only bill to ban all baby-killing dies as Silence and Inaction by a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee with 4 out of 5 voting members Republicans, results in no action taken by the end of the regular session, June 1, 2006 (same day as the start of the 2006 Hurricane season). Even 4 and 5 year-old children mouth the word "baby" when they see a photo an 8-week in-utero 'fetus' !
The Republicans are the majority in the South Carolina State Senate (26 R's to 20 D's).
Of the 26 Republicans in the SC Senate, only seven signed on as co-sponsors of S.111.
Sponsors: Senators Fair, Bryant, Grooms, Thomas, Verdin, Hayes and Ryberg. Only seven (27%) out of 26 Republican State Senators co-sponsored S.111, despite the fact that there were 47 (64%) out of 74 Republican State Representatives who co-sponsored the House version (H.3213) before it passed the 124-member SC House on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95 Yeas to 18 Nays (albeit with a 'fatal flaw' rape exception amendment that needed to be removed). After passing the SC House, a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee "sat" on the bill (H.3213) for over a year until the end of the session, June 1, 2006, killing SC's baby-killing ban bill.
Sadly, even the primary sponsor of the Senate version undermined his own bill. “We (supporters of limits) basically got together and decided abortion wouldn’t be an issue this year,” Sen. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, said of supporters of limiting abortion. “Had we known South Dakota would have done what they did, there would have been thoughtful consideration on testing the waters here, I assure you.” (The State, 3/19/06)
www.siliconvalley.com/mld/thestate/news/local/14134771.htm
Senator Fair, at 125 children murdered by surgical abortion per week in SC, abortion is an issue ! In 2004, 55/week were murdered in Charleston, 45/week murdered in Greenville, and 25/week murdered in Columbia.
It is the Republicans who are the majority in the State Senate who are responsible for refusing to take action to pass the Right to Life Act of SC by June 1, 2006, thus killing SC's baby-killing ban bill. It is the SC Senate Republicans, from the political party now in power, who are therefore responsible for prolonging child-murder-by-surgical-abortion in our state.(6,500-plus children murdered by surgical abortion per year).
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Below are the South Carolina State Senators who are not co-sponsoring S.111:
Republican SC State Senate Non-Sponsors of S.111 - 19 (73%) out of 26 are non-sponsors:
Sen. Thomas Alexander (R-Walhalla)
Sen. Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston)
Sen. Chip Campsen (R-Isle of Palms)
Sen. William Mescher (R-Pinopolis)
Sen. Ray Cleary (R-Murrells Inlet)
Sen. William O’Dell (R-Greenwood)
Sen. John Courson (R-Columbia)
Sen. Harvey Peeler (R-Gaffney)
Sen. Ronnie Cromer (R-Prosperity)
Sen. Luke Rankin (R-Myrtle Beach)
Sen. Greg Gregory (R-Lancaster)
Sen. Scott Richardson (R-Hilton Head Island)
Sen. John Hawkins (R-Spartanburg)
Sen. Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg)
Sen. Jake Knotts (R-West Columbia)
Sen. Randy Scott (R-Summerville)
Sen. Hugh Leatherman (R-Florence)
Sen. Verne Smith (R-Greer)
Sen. Larry Martin (R-Pickens)
Democrat SC State Senate Non-Sponsors of S.111 - 20 (100%) out of 20 are non-sponsors:
Sen. Ralph Anderson (D-Greenville)
Sen. John Matthews (D-Bowman)
Sen. John Drummond (D-Ninety Six)
Sen. John McGill (D-Kingstree)
Sen. Dick Elliott (D-N. Myrtle Beach)
Sen. Thomas Moore (D-Clearwater)
Sen. Robert Ford (D-Charleston)
Sen. Kay Patterson (D-Columbia)
Sen. Brad Hutto (D-Orangeburg)
Sen. Clementa Pinckney (D-Ridgeland)
Sen. Darrell Jackson (D-Hopkins)
Sen. Glenn Reese (D-Inman)
Sen. John Land (D-Manning)
Sen. Nikki Setzler (D-West Columbia)
Sen. Phil Leventis (D-Sumter)
Sen. Vincent Sheheen (D-Camden)
Sen. Joel Louire (D-Columbia)
Sen. Linda Short (D-Chester)
Sen. Gerald Malloy (D-Hartsville)
Sen. Kent Williams (D-Marion)
You can see the text and co-sponsors of bills H.3213 and S.111 from the homepage link at: http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ or go to the SC Legislative website at: http://www.scstatehouse.net/
Note: Republican Governor Mark Sanford never once publicly used his influence, the 'bully pulpit' of his office, to pass the Right to Life Act of SC. __________________________________________________
Prepared by Columbia Christians for Life * http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/ * 803-765-0916 * Columbia, SC
South Carolina's only bill to ban all baby-killing dies as Silence and Inaction by a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee with 4 out of 5 voting members Republicans, results in no action taken by the end of the regular session, June 1, 2006 (same day as the start of the 2006 Hurricane season). Even 4 and 5 year-old children mouth the word "baby" when they see a photo an 8-week in-utero 'fetus' !
The Republicans are the majority in the South Carolina State Senate (26 R's to 20 D's).
Of the 26 Republicans in the SC Senate, only seven signed on as co-sponsors of S.111.
Sponsors: Senators Fair, Bryant, Grooms, Thomas, Verdin, Hayes and Ryberg. Only seven (27%) out of 26 Republican State Senators co-sponsored S.111, despite the fact that there were 47 (64%) out of 74 Republican State Representatives who co-sponsored the House version (H.3213) before it passed the 124-member SC House on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95 Yeas to 18 Nays (albeit with a 'fatal flaw' rape exception amendment that needed to be removed). After passing the SC House, a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee "sat" on the bill (H.3213) for over a year until the end of the session, June 1, 2006, killing SC's baby-killing ban bill.
Sadly, even the primary sponsor of the Senate version undermined his own bill. “We (supporters of limits) basically got together and decided abortion wouldn’t be an issue this year,” Sen. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, said of supporters of limiting abortion. “Had we known South Dakota would have done what they did, there would have been thoughtful consideration on testing the waters here, I assure you.” (The State, 3/19/06)
www.siliconvalley.com/mld/thestate/news/local/14134771.htm
Senator Fair, at 125 children murdered by surgical abortion per week in SC, abortion is an issue ! In 2004, 55/week were murdered in Charleston, 45/week murdered in Greenville, and 25/week murdered in Columbia.
It is the Republicans who are the majority in the State Senate who are responsible for refusing to take action to pass the Right to Life Act of SC by June 1, 2006, thus killing SC's baby-killing ban bill. It is the SC Senate Republicans, from the political party now in power, who are therefore responsible for prolonging child-murder-by-surgical-abortion in our state.(6,500-plus children murdered by surgical abortion per year).
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Below are the South Carolina State Senators who are not co-sponsoring S.111:
Republican SC State Senate Non-Sponsors of S.111 - 19 (73%) out of 26 are non-sponsors:
Sen. Thomas Alexander (R-Walhalla)
Sen. Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston)
Sen. Chip Campsen (R-Isle of Palms)
Sen. William Mescher (R-Pinopolis)
Sen. Ray Cleary (R-Murrells Inlet)
Sen. William O’Dell (R-Greenwood)
Sen. John Courson (R-Columbia)
Sen. Harvey Peeler (R-Gaffney)
Sen. Ronnie Cromer (R-Prosperity)
Sen. Luke Rankin (R-Myrtle Beach)
Sen. Greg Gregory (R-Lancaster)
Sen. Scott Richardson (R-Hilton Head Island)
Sen. John Hawkins (R-Spartanburg)
Sen. Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg)
Sen. Jake Knotts (R-West Columbia)
Sen. Randy Scott (R-Summerville)
Sen. Hugh Leatherman (R-Florence)
Sen. Verne Smith (R-Greer)
Sen. Larry Martin (R-Pickens)
Democrat SC State Senate Non-Sponsors of S.111 - 20 (100%) out of 20 are non-sponsors:
Sen. Ralph Anderson (D-Greenville)
Sen. John Matthews (D-Bowman)
Sen. John Drummond (D-Ninety Six)
Sen. John McGill (D-Kingstree)
Sen. Dick Elliott (D-N. Myrtle Beach)
Sen. Thomas Moore (D-Clearwater)
Sen. Robert Ford (D-Charleston)
Sen. Kay Patterson (D-Columbia)
Sen. Brad Hutto (D-Orangeburg)
Sen. Clementa Pinckney (D-Ridgeland)
Sen. Darrell Jackson (D-Hopkins)
Sen. Glenn Reese (D-Inman)
Sen. John Land (D-Manning)
Sen. Nikki Setzler (D-West Columbia)
Sen. Phil Leventis (D-Sumter)
Sen. Vincent Sheheen (D-Camden)
Sen. Joel Louire (D-Columbia)
Sen. Linda Short (D-Chester)
Sen. Gerald Malloy (D-Hartsville)
Sen. Kent Williams (D-Marion)
You can see the text and co-sponsors of bills H.3213 and S.111 from the homepage link at: http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ or go to the SC Legislative website at: http://www.scstatehouse.net/
Note: Republican Governor Mark Sanford never once publicly used his influence, the 'bully pulpit' of his office, to pass the Right to Life Act of SC. __________________________________________________
Prepared by Columbia Christians for Life * http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/ * 803-765-0916 * Columbia, SC
Charlie M. and Anne R. "standing in the gate" after the joint Voice of the Unborn/CCL 'JESUS IS PRO-LIFE' News Conference on May 30, 2006. This is on the second floor of the SC State House in Columbia. The SC Senate chamber is on the other side of the barrier.
"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame to even speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved [exposed] are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
Ephesians 5:11-13, KJV
Ellin B., Anne R., Steve L., and Cathy G. "standing in the gate" after the joint Voice of the Unborn/CCL 'JESUS IS PRO-LIFE' News Conference on May 30, 2006. This is on the second floor of the SC State House in Columbia. The SC Senate chamber is on the other side of the barrier.
"Again the word of the LORD came unto me [Ezekiel], saying, Son of man, cause Jerusalem [SC] to know her abominations [realize her evil deeds].
Ezekiel 16:1-2, KJV
"Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city ? [state] yea, thou shaltshew her all her abominations. Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city [the state of SC] sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. Thou [state of SC] art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed;..."
Ezekiel 22:2-4a, KJV
125 children murdered by surgical abortion each week in South Carolina [2004 DHEC statistics]:
Charleston: 55/week murdered; Greenville: 45/week murdered; Columbia: 25/week murdered
More than 310,000 murdered by surgical abortion alone in South Carolina since 1973. Their shed innocent blood cries out to God from the ground for vengeance (Genesis 4:10), and He hears their cry:
"The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for ALL that are oppressed." Ps. 103:6, KJV
(emphasis added - "ALL" includes all the 310,000-plus murdered by surgical abortion in SC since 1973 !)
The 46 members of the South Carolina Senate (26 Republicans, 20 Democrats) are without excuse to know the evil abomination of child-murder-by-abortion occurring in South Carolina. It has been brought to their doorstep !
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May 30, 2006
'JESUS IS PRO-LIFE' News Conference - Columbia, SC
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
11:45 AM: First Floor Lobby, SC State House
Re: ‘Right to Life Act of South Carolina’ [ H.3213 / S.111 ]
Republican State Senators refuse to pass South Carolina's pro-life bill to end "legalized" abortion
Statement by Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary, director, Columbia Christians for Life:
The Lord Jesus Christ is Pro-Life. He is the Creator of life. The Bible says that He is King of kings and Lord of lords, and that includes His Kingship and Lordship over the General Assembly of South Carolina. The Bible says that the LORD “is the governor among the nations,” and that He “is the King of all the earth.” His Kingship includes authority over the state of South Carolina. God has given his command to mankind, “Thou shalt not kill (murder).” Yet South Carolina has been in rebellion against God, murdering over 310,000 pre-birth children since 1973. Today SC murders about 6500 children a year; that’s 125 per week, primarily in the three cities with abortion centers: Charleston murders about 55 per week; Greenville, 45 per week; and Columbia, 25 per week. Our entire state is polluted with the innocent blood of murdered children, and the shedding of their blood is protected by the state.
The Right to Life Act of South Carolina is SC’s only bill to end “legalized” abortion. It could also be called SC’s “Personhood for the Unborn” bill. The bill recognizes the legal “personhood” of all pre-birth human beings, at fertilization. It would ban all “legalized” child-murder-by-abortion, because the SC State Constitution, in Article I., Section 3., already protects legal “persons” from being deprived of life without due process of law, and in the bill’s original form (i.e., without any so-called “exceptions”), would inarguably place all pre-birth human beings in the same protected status. In the text of the Roe v. Wade decision 33 years ago, the Supreme Court said that if personhood for the “fetus” [unborn child] was established, then the case for abortion would collapse.
With the 2006 session of the Legislature scheduled to end on June 1, unless the SC Senate takes action on the version that passed the House in 2005 (H.3213), the bill will die, and the 6,500+ children murdered every year in SC by surgical abortion will have to wait until the 2007 session for new legislation to pass, at the earliest.
Incredibly, even though H.3213 passed the House on Second Reading on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95 Yeas to 18 Nays (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that must be removed), the bill has gone nowhere in the Senate after two public hearings in May 2005 before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg). H.3213 has sat in this Subcommittee for over one year, even though Republicans outnumber Democrats 4 to 1 ! This includes Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), chairman of the full Judiciary Committee. With just days left in the 2006 session, unless something changes, and quickly, the bill will die June 1.
The RTL Act of SC was first filed in 1998, by Rep. Terry Haskins in the House, and by Senator Mike Fair in the Senate. It has been an active bill in the House every year since, the current sponsor being Rep. Ralph Davenport. The Republicans have been the majority in control of the House consistently now for 12 years beginning in 1995. House Republican leaders had opposed the bill for years, or not supported it. Then, in early 2005, the SC Attorney General issued a legal opinion that the RTL Act of SC was constitutional on its face, though if applied to abortion, would have to be adjudicated. The bill finally passed the House in April 2005, and went over to the Senate. If the Senate refuses to take action to pass the Right to Life Act of SC by June 1, the responsibility must rightly be placed at the feet of those Senators who are members of the political party that is now in power, the REPUBLICANS :
11:45 AM: First Floor Lobby, SC State House
Re: ‘Right to Life Act of South Carolina’ [ H.3213 / S.111 ]
Republican State Senators refuse to pass South Carolina's pro-life bill to end "legalized" abortion
Statement by Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary, director, Columbia Christians for Life:
The Lord Jesus Christ is Pro-Life. He is the Creator of life. The Bible says that He is King of kings and Lord of lords, and that includes His Kingship and Lordship over the General Assembly of South Carolina. The Bible says that the LORD “is the governor among the nations,” and that He “is the King of all the earth.” His Kingship includes authority over the state of South Carolina. God has given his command to mankind, “Thou shalt not kill (murder).” Yet South Carolina has been in rebellion against God, murdering over 310,000 pre-birth children since 1973. Today SC murders about 6500 children a year; that’s 125 per week, primarily in the three cities with abortion centers: Charleston murders about 55 per week; Greenville, 45 per week; and Columbia, 25 per week. Our entire state is polluted with the innocent blood of murdered children, and the shedding of their blood is protected by the state.
The Right to Life Act of South Carolina is SC’s only bill to end “legalized” abortion. It could also be called SC’s “Personhood for the Unborn” bill. The bill recognizes the legal “personhood” of all pre-birth human beings, at fertilization. It would ban all “legalized” child-murder-by-abortion, because the SC State Constitution, in Article I., Section 3., already protects legal “persons” from being deprived of life without due process of law, and in the bill’s original form (i.e., without any so-called “exceptions”), would inarguably place all pre-birth human beings in the same protected status. In the text of the Roe v. Wade decision 33 years ago, the Supreme Court said that if personhood for the “fetus” [unborn child] was established, then the case for abortion would collapse.
With the 2006 session of the Legislature scheduled to end on June 1, unless the SC Senate takes action on the version that passed the House in 2005 (H.3213), the bill will die, and the 6,500+ children murdered every year in SC by surgical abortion will have to wait until the 2007 session for new legislation to pass, at the earliest.
Incredibly, even though H.3213 passed the House on Second Reading on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95 Yeas to 18 Nays (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that must be removed), the bill has gone nowhere in the Senate after two public hearings in May 2005 before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg). H.3213 has sat in this Subcommittee for over one year, even though Republicans outnumber Democrats 4 to 1 ! This includes Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), chairman of the full Judiciary Committee. With just days left in the 2006 session, unless something changes, and quickly, the bill will die June 1.
The RTL Act of SC was first filed in 1998, by Rep. Terry Haskins in the House, and by Senator Mike Fair in the Senate. It has been an active bill in the House every year since, the current sponsor being Rep. Ralph Davenport. The Republicans have been the majority in control of the House consistently now for 12 years beginning in 1995. House Republican leaders had opposed the bill for years, or not supported it. Then, in early 2005, the SC Attorney General issued a legal opinion that the RTL Act of SC was constitutional on its face, though if applied to abortion, would have to be adjudicated. The bill finally passed the House in April 2005, and went over to the Senate. If the Senate refuses to take action to pass the Right to Life Act of SC by June 1, the responsibility must rightly be placed at the feet of those Senators who are members of the political party that is now in power, the REPUBLICANS :
- The Republicans are the majority in the SC House (74 Republicans to 50 Democrats).
- The Republicans are the majority in the SC Senate (26 Republicans to 20 Democrats).
- The Republicans in SC currently occupy the Governor's office, the Lt. Governor's office, and the Att. Gen.'s office.
It is the Republicans who are the majority in the State Senate who are responsible for refusing to take action to pass the Right to Life Act of SC, and who will therefore be responsible for prolonging child-killing in our state.
The 2004 Republican Party National Platform states, “As a country, we must keep our pledge to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence. That is why we say the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which cannot be infringed… Our purpose is to have legislative and judicial protection of that right against those who perform abortions.” It’s well past due the time for Republicans to back up these words with legislative action.
To the 19 Republican SC State Senators who are not co-sponsors of the Senate version of the RTL Act, S.111, we ask, why aren’t you a co-sponsor ? Please pass the Right to Life Act before the session ends on June 1st. Now to those of you here, attending this news conference, I invite you to please help by lobbying these Senators upstairs. Thank you for coming, if you can stay to lobby the Senators, please gather here behind the podium at the conclusion.
'JESUS IS PRO-LIFE NEWS CONFERENCE - COLUMBIA, SC
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
11:45 AM: First Floor Lobby, SC State House
Speakers:
Johnny Gardner, dir. Voice of the Unborn:
Right to Life Act of SC (H.3213) & Unborn Children's Monument Resolution (H.3338)
Miss Kim Hendrix:
personal testimony
Steve Lefemine, dir. Columbia Christians for Life:
Right to Life Act of SC (H.3213 / S.111)
First Floor Lobby, SC State House, Columbia, South CarolinaMay 20, 2006
OPINION EDITORIAL - ‘Right to Life Act of South Carolina’
OPINION EDITORIAL: May 16, 2006
‘Right to Life Act of South Carolina’ [S.111 / H.3213]
Republican State Senators refuse to pass South Carolina's pro-life bill
to end "legalized" abortion
by Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
director, Columbia Christians for Life
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
The Right to Life Act of South Carolina could also be called SC’s “Personhood for the Unborn” bill.
The bill recognizes the legal “personhood” of all pre-birth human beings, at fertilization. It would ban all “legalized” child-murder-by-abortion, because the SC State Constitution, in Article I., Section 3., already protects legal “persons” from being deprived of life without due process of law, and S.111 / H.3213, in the bills’ original forms (i.e., without any so-called “exceptions”), would inarguably place all pre-birth human beings in the same protected status. In the text of the Roe v. Wade decision 33 years ago, the Supreme Court said that if personhood for the “fetus” [unborn child] was established, then the case for abortion would collapse (http://www.findlaw.com/).
With the 2006 session of the SC Legislature scheduled to end on June 1, unless the SC Senate takes action on the version that passed the SC House in 2005 (H.3213), the bill will die, and the 6,500+ children murdered every year in South Carolina by surgical abortion will have to wait until the 2007 session for new legislation to pass, at the earliest.
Incredibly, even though H.3213 passed the House on Second Reading on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95 Yeas to 18 Nays (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that must be removed), the bill has gone nowhere in the Senate after two public hearings in May 2005 before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg). H.3213 has sat in this Subcommittee for over one year, even though Republicans outnumber Democrats 4 to 1 ! This includes Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), chairman of the full Judiciary Committee. With just days left in the 2006 session, unless something changes, and quickly, the bill will die June 1.
The RTL Act of SC was first filed in 1998, by Rep. Terry Haskins in the House, and by Senator Mike Fair in the Senate. It has been an active bill in the House every year since, the current sponsor being Rep. Ralph Davenport. The Republicans have been the majority in control of the House consistently now for 12 years beginning in 1995. House Republican leaders had opposed the bill for years, or not supported it. Then, in early 2005, the SC Attorney General issued a legal opinion that the RTL Act of SC was constitutional on its face, though if applied to abortion, would have to be adjudicated. The bill finally passed the House in April 2005, and went over to the Senate. If the Senate refuses to take action to pass the Right to Life Act of SC by June 1, the responsibility must rightly be placed at the feet of those Senators who are members of the political party that is now in power, the REPUBLICANS :
It is the Republicans who are the majority in the State Senate who are responsible for refusing to take action to pass the Right to Life Act of SC, and who will therefore be responsible for prolonging child-killing in our state.
You can see the text and SC Legislator co-sponsors of bills H.3213 and S.111 from the homepage link at: http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, or go to the SC Legislative website at: http://www.scstatehouse.net/ .
If you support banning the heinous crime of child-murder-by-abortion in South Carolina, then please call your own State Senator, and Senator Fair (Senate sponsor of S.111, 864-246-4257 / 803-212-6420), and Senator Ritchie (864-585-2275 / 803-212-6032), and Senator McConnell (843-747-7554 / 803-212-6610), and Governor Mark Sanford (803-734-2100). Ask them all to work for passage of the Right to Life Act of SC by June 1, without any amendments for “exceptions.” For further questions, call CCL at 803-765-0916.
‘Right to Life Act of South Carolina’ [S.111 / H.3213]
Republican State Senators refuse to pass South Carolina's pro-life bill
to end "legalized" abortion
by Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
director, Columbia Christians for Life
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
The Right to Life Act of South Carolina could also be called SC’s “Personhood for the Unborn” bill.
The bill recognizes the legal “personhood” of all pre-birth human beings, at fertilization. It would ban all “legalized” child-murder-by-abortion, because the SC State Constitution, in Article I., Section 3., already protects legal “persons” from being deprived of life without due process of law, and S.111 / H.3213, in the bills’ original forms (i.e., without any so-called “exceptions”), would inarguably place all pre-birth human beings in the same protected status. In the text of the Roe v. Wade decision 33 years ago, the Supreme Court said that if personhood for the “fetus” [unborn child] was established, then the case for abortion would collapse (http://www.findlaw.com/).
With the 2006 session of the SC Legislature scheduled to end on June 1, unless the SC Senate takes action on the version that passed the SC House in 2005 (H.3213), the bill will die, and the 6,500+ children murdered every year in South Carolina by surgical abortion will have to wait until the 2007 session for new legislation to pass, at the earliest.
Incredibly, even though H.3213 passed the House on Second Reading on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95 Yeas to 18 Nays (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that must be removed), the bill has gone nowhere in the Senate after two public hearings in May 2005 before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg). H.3213 has sat in this Subcommittee for over one year, even though Republicans outnumber Democrats 4 to 1 ! This includes Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), chairman of the full Judiciary Committee. With just days left in the 2006 session, unless something changes, and quickly, the bill will die June 1.
The RTL Act of SC was first filed in 1998, by Rep. Terry Haskins in the House, and by Senator Mike Fair in the Senate. It has been an active bill in the House every year since, the current sponsor being Rep. Ralph Davenport. The Republicans have been the majority in control of the House consistently now for 12 years beginning in 1995. House Republican leaders had opposed the bill for years, or not supported it. Then, in early 2005, the SC Attorney General issued a legal opinion that the RTL Act of SC was constitutional on its face, though if applied to abortion, would have to be adjudicated. The bill finally passed the House in April 2005, and went over to the Senate. If the Senate refuses to take action to pass the Right to Life Act of SC by June 1, the responsibility must rightly be placed at the feet of those Senators who are members of the political party that is now in power, the REPUBLICANS :
The Republicans are the majority in the SC House (74 Republicans to 50 Democrats).
The Republicans are the majority in the SC Senate (26 Republicans to 20 Democrats).
The Republicans in SC currently occupy the Governor's office, the Lieutenant Governor's office, and the Attorney General's office.
It is the Republicans who are the majority in the State Senate who are responsible for refusing to take action to pass the Right to Life Act of SC, and who will therefore be responsible for prolonging child-killing in our state.
You can see the text and SC Legislator co-sponsors of bills H.3213 and S.111 from the homepage link at: http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, or go to the SC Legislative website at: http://www.scstatehouse.net/ .
If you support banning the heinous crime of child-murder-by-abortion in South Carolina, then please call your own State Senator, and Senator Fair (Senate sponsor of S.111, 864-246-4257 / 803-212-6420), and Senator Ritchie (864-585-2275 / 803-212-6032), and Senator McConnell (843-747-7554 / 803-212-6610), and Governor Mark Sanford (803-734-2100). Ask them all to work for passage of the Right to Life Act of SC by June 1, without any amendments for “exceptions.” For further questions, call CCL at 803-765-0916.
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Note: Formatted, double-spaced, two-page version of the above Opinion Editorial may be obtained from Columbia Christians for Life at: CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
May 19, 2006
Press Advisory: 'Jesus is Pro-Life' news conferences, Greenville & Spartanburg, SC
VOICE OF THE UNBORN & Columbia Christians for Life
“Lo: children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. ” Psalm 127:3
“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
PRESS ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, May 19, 2006
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact, Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn, ph. (803) 731-0062, or Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life, ph. (803) 765-0916 /
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net and www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
Greenville
Location: County Square at the flagpole
301 University Ridge
Greenville, SC 29601
Time: 11:00 AM
Spartanburg
Location: Spartanburg County Administration Building
(on the sidewalk in front of the building)
366 N. Church St.
Spartanburg, SC 29303
Time: 2:00 PM
End of 2006 SC Legislative session report on :
1. the “Right to Life Act of South Carolina”
H.3213 / S.111
2. the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial
H.3338
Columbia Christians for Life & Voice of the Unborn are conducting joint news conferences prior to the approaching end of the regular 2006 Legislative session to give a report on the current status of the Right to Life Act of South Carolina (H.3213 / S.111) and the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial (H.3338) as the 2006 SC Legislative session comes to an end on June 1.
Supporters are being invited to come and please stand with us to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. We are seeking to defend the precious lives of our unborn children and make abortion illegal in SC through the Right to Life Act of SC; and to memorialize and repent for the loss of over 310,000 children destroyed already since 1973, by surgical abortion alone, through the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial.
“Lo: children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. ” Psalm 127:3
“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
PRESS ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, May 19, 2006
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact, Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn, ph. (803) 731-0062, or Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life, ph. (803) 765-0916 /
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net and www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
‘JESUS IS PRO-LIFE’
NEWS CONFERENCES
Greenville and Spartanburg
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Greenville
Location: County Square at the flagpole
301 University Ridge
Greenville, SC 29601
Time: 11:00 AM
Spartanburg
Location: Spartanburg County Administration Building
(on the sidewalk in front of the building)
366 N. Church St.
Spartanburg, SC 29303
Time: 2:00 PM
End of 2006 SC Legislative session report on :
1. the “Right to Life Act of South Carolina”
H.3213 / S.111
2. the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial
H.3338
Columbia Christians for Life & Voice of the Unborn are conducting joint news conferences prior to the approaching end of the regular 2006 Legislative session to give a report on the current status of the Right to Life Act of South Carolina (H.3213 / S.111) and the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial (H.3338) as the 2006 SC Legislative session comes to an end on June 1.
Supporters are being invited to come and please stand with us to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. We are seeking to defend the precious lives of our unborn children and make abortion illegal in SC through the Right to Life Act of SC; and to memorialize and repent for the loss of over 310,000 children destroyed already since 1973, by surgical abortion alone, through the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial.
EXODUS 20:13 “THOU SHALT NOT KILL”
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Note: Formatted, one-page version of the above Press Advisory may be obtained from Columbia Christians for Life at: CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
May 18, 2006
SC pro-lifers - please distribute this flyer
REPUBLICANS IN S.C. SENATE PROLONG CHILD-KILLING:
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Attention South Carolina pro-lifers !
Please help distribute the flyer below (one-page flyer version at the attachment) around South Carolina today, to family, friends, people at church, and the public.
There are just 14 days remaining in the regular session of the SC Legislature for 2006; it ends June 1 (the same day as the beginning of hurrican season !).
The Right to Life Act of SC passed the SC House last year in April 2005 (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that needs to be removed), but has now sat in the Republican-majority SC Senate, in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, for over one year. If nothing is done in the next two weeks, the bill dies June 1, and the process would have to start all over again for the 2007 session.
Meanwhile, South Carolina's three abortion centers (in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston) continue to murder 6,500+ (2004 DHEC statistic) pre-born babies each year, by surgical abortion alone. Their shed innocent blood pollutes the land of the entire state of South Carolina (Numbers 35:33). The voice of their shed innocent blood cries out from the ground to (Genesis 4:10) to God. He hears their cry, and He will execute righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed, including the 6,500+ killed in South Carolina each year (Psalm 103:6).
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The one-page flyer below, formatted as it was distributed to members of the SC Legislature, the SC Governor, the SC Lt Governor, and the SC Attorney General, can be printed out from the attachment at the end of this e-mail. [Please contact Columbia Christians for Life for an attachment of the flyer.]
Principled Christians and pro-lifers in SC are asked to print out the one-page flyer in the enclosed attachment, and distribute it far and wide: to family and friends, people at church and work, public places, and anywhere people gather, urging them to contact their SC State Senator to co-sponsor S.111, the Right to Life Act of SC. Make 100 photocopies at the copy shop and distribute them. Help end child-murder-by-abortion in SC !
Thank you, and may the Lord bless you and make provision for you as you speak up for the least of these, who cannot speak up for themselves.
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
Flyer: (see attachment below for one-page flyer formatted as it was distributed to members of the SC Legislature, the SC Governor, the SC Lt Governor, and the SC Attorney General, at the end of this e-mail)
REPUBLICANS IN S.C. SENATE PROLONG CHILD-KILLING:
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC House (74 R's to 50 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC Senate (26 R's to 20 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina occupy the Governor's office, the Lt. Governor's office, and the Attorney General's office.
REFUSE TO TAKE ACTION TO PASS the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina"
South Carolina's pro-life bill to end "legalized" abortion (House bill H.3213 / Senate bill S.111)
The 2006 regular session of the SC Legislature is scheduled to end on June 1, 2006. Incredibly, even though the SC House version (H.3213) of the Right to Life Act of SC passed the SC House on Second Reading (with 52 co-sponsors: 47 R's and 5 D's), on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95Y to 18N (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that must be removed), the bill has gone nowhere in the SC Senate after two hearings in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R). It has now sat in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee for over one year, and there are less than 30 days left in the 2006 session. If nothing changes, the bill will die June 1st, and the 6,500+ children murdered every year in South Carolina by surgical abortion, primarily at the state's three abortion centers in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, will have to wait until the 2007 session for new legislation to pass, at the earliest.
Of the 26 Republicans in the SC Senate, only seven have signed on as co-sponsors of S.111:
Sponsors: Senators Fair, Bryant, Grooms, Thomas, Verdin, Hayes and Ryberg
You can see the text and co-sponsors of bills H.3213 and S.111 from the homepage link at: http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ or go to the SC Legislative website at: http://www.scstatehouse.net/
So only 7 (27%) out of 26 Republicans are co-sponsoring a bill to end the killing of 6,500+ pre-birth human beings in South Carolina each year (2004 statistics: Charleston abortion center: 2,835 murdered; Greenville abortion center: 2,359 murdered; Columbia abortion center: 1,335 murdered)
Below are the Republican SC State Senators who are not co-sponsoring S.111 (not a single one of the Democrat Senators are co-sponsors, not even those Senators who are also church ministers !):
Republican SC State Senate Non-Sponsors:
Sen. Thomas Alexander (R-Walhalla)
Sen. Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston)
Sen. Chip Campsen (R-Isle of Palms)
Sen. William Mescher (R-Pinopolis)
Sen. Ray Cleary (R-Murrells Inlet)
Sen. William O’Dell (R-Greenwood)
Sen. John Courson (R-Columbia)
Sen. Harvey Peeler (R-Gaffney)
Sen. Ronnie Cromer (R-Prosperity)
Sen. Luke Rankin (R-Myrtle Beach)
Sen. Greg Gregory (R-Lancaster)
Sen. Scott Richardson (R-Hilton Head Island)
Sen. John Hawkins (R-Spartanburg)
Sen. Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg)
Sen. Jake Knotts (R-West Columbia)
Sen. Randy Scott (R-Summerville)
Sen. Hugh Leatherman (R-Florence)
Sen. Verne Smith (R-Greer)
Sen. Larry Martin (R-Pickens)
Fax all SC Senators at 803-212-6299 (include Senator’s name); other contact information for SC Senators at: www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/senatebios.html
Ask all Senators to co-sponsor S.111 and pass the bill.
Please especially call Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville), Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg), and Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston) to work for passage of the Right to Life Act inthe SC Senate !
Please call Republican Governor Mark Sanford to use his influence and the 'bully pulpit' of his office, to pass the Right to Life Act (phone 803-734-2100, fax 803-734-0546 and fax 803-734-9413)
____________________________________
____________________________________
Prepared by Columbia Christians for Life
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
803-765-0916
Columbia, SC
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
The flyer above was presented for distribution to all 46 members of the SC Senate (26 R's and 20 D's),all 124 members of the SC House (74 R's and 50 D's), the Republican SC Governor, the Republican SC Lt Governor, and the Republican SC Attorney General on May 9th.
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
(click on 'RTL Act of SC' button)
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
May 18, 2006
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Attention South Carolina pro-lifers !
Please help distribute the flyer below (one-page flyer version at the attachment) around South Carolina today, to family, friends, people at church, and the public.
There are just 14 days remaining in the regular session of the SC Legislature for 2006; it ends June 1 (the same day as the beginning of hurrican season !).
The Right to Life Act of SC passed the SC House last year in April 2005 (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that needs to be removed), but has now sat in the Republican-majority SC Senate, in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, for over one year. If nothing is done in the next two weeks, the bill dies June 1, and the process would have to start all over again for the 2007 session.
Meanwhile, South Carolina's three abortion centers (in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston) continue to murder 6,500+ (2004 DHEC statistic) pre-born babies each year, by surgical abortion alone. Their shed innocent blood pollutes the land of the entire state of South Carolina (Numbers 35:33). The voice of their shed innocent blood cries out from the ground to (Genesis 4:10) to God. He hears their cry, and He will execute righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed, including the 6,500+ killed in South Carolina each year (Psalm 103:6).
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The one-page flyer below, formatted as it was distributed to members of the SC Legislature, the SC Governor, the SC Lt Governor, and the SC Attorney General, can be printed out from the attachment at the end of this e-mail. [Please contact Columbia Christians for Life for an attachment of the flyer.]
Principled Christians and pro-lifers in SC are asked to print out the one-page flyer in the enclosed attachment, and distribute it far and wide: to family and friends, people at church and work, public places, and anywhere people gather, urging them to contact their SC State Senator to co-sponsor S.111, the Right to Life Act of SC. Make 100 photocopies at the copy shop and distribute them. Help end child-murder-by-abortion in SC !
Thank you, and may the Lord bless you and make provision for you as you speak up for the least of these, who cannot speak up for themselves.
___________________________________________
___________________________________________
Flyer: (see attachment below for one-page flyer formatted as it was distributed to members of the SC Legislature, the SC Governor, the SC Lt Governor, and the SC Attorney General, at the end of this e-mail)
REPUBLICANS IN S.C. SENATE PROLONG CHILD-KILLING:
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC House (74 R's to 50 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC Senate (26 R's to 20 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina occupy the Governor's office, the Lt. Governor's office, and the Attorney General's office.
REFUSE TO TAKE ACTION TO PASS the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina"
South Carolina's pro-life bill to end "legalized" abortion (House bill H.3213 / Senate bill S.111)
The 2006 regular session of the SC Legislature is scheduled to end on June 1, 2006. Incredibly, even though the SC House version (H.3213) of the Right to Life Act of SC passed the SC House on Second Reading (with 52 co-sponsors: 47 R's and 5 D's), on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95Y to 18N (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that must be removed), the bill has gone nowhere in the SC Senate after two hearings in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R). It has now sat in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee for over one year, and there are less than 30 days left in the 2006 session. If nothing changes, the bill will die June 1st, and the 6,500+ children murdered every year in South Carolina by surgical abortion, primarily at the state's three abortion centers in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, will have to wait until the 2007 session for new legislation to pass, at the earliest.
Of the 26 Republicans in the SC Senate, only seven have signed on as co-sponsors of S.111:
Sponsors: Senators Fair, Bryant, Grooms, Thomas, Verdin, Hayes and Ryberg
You can see the text and co-sponsors of bills H.3213 and S.111 from the homepage link at: http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ or go to the SC Legislative website at: http://www.scstatehouse.net/
So only 7 (27%) out of 26 Republicans are co-sponsoring a bill to end the killing of 6,500+ pre-birth human beings in South Carolina each year (2004 statistics: Charleston abortion center: 2,835 murdered; Greenville abortion center: 2,359 murdered; Columbia abortion center: 1,335 murdered)
Below are the Republican SC State Senators who are not co-sponsoring S.111 (not a single one of the Democrat Senators are co-sponsors, not even those Senators who are also church ministers !):
Republican SC State Senate Non-Sponsors:
Sen. Thomas Alexander (R-Walhalla)
Sen. Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston)
Sen. Chip Campsen (R-Isle of Palms)
Sen. William Mescher (R-Pinopolis)
Sen. Ray Cleary (R-Murrells Inlet)
Sen. William O’Dell (R-Greenwood)
Sen. John Courson (R-Columbia)
Sen. Harvey Peeler (R-Gaffney)
Sen. Ronnie Cromer (R-Prosperity)
Sen. Luke Rankin (R-Myrtle Beach)
Sen. Greg Gregory (R-Lancaster)
Sen. Scott Richardson (R-Hilton Head Island)
Sen. John Hawkins (R-Spartanburg)
Sen. Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg)
Sen. Jake Knotts (R-West Columbia)
Sen. Randy Scott (R-Summerville)
Sen. Hugh Leatherman (R-Florence)
Sen. Verne Smith (R-Greer)
Sen. Larry Martin (R-Pickens)
Fax all SC Senators at 803-212-6299 (include Senator’s name); other contact information for SC Senators at: www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/senatebios.html
Ask all Senators to co-sponsor S.111 and pass the bill.
Please especially call Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville), Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg), and Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston) to work for passage of the Right to Life Act inthe SC Senate !
Please call Republican Governor Mark Sanford to use his influence and the 'bully pulpit' of his office, to pass the Right to Life Act (phone 803-734-2100, fax 803-734-0546 and fax 803-734-9413)
____________________________________
____________________________________
Prepared by Columbia Christians for Life
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
803-765-0916
Columbia, SC
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
The flyer above was presented for distribution to all 46 members of the SC Senate (26 R's and 20 D's),all 124 members of the SC House (74 R's and 50 D's), the Republican SC Governor, the Republican SC Lt Governor, and the Republican SC Attorney General on May 9th.
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
(click on 'RTL Act of SC' button)
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
May 18, 2006
May 17, 2006
Press Advisory: 'Jesus is Pro-Life' news conference, State House, Columbia, SC
VOICE OF THE UNBORN & Columbia Christians for Life
“Lo: children are an heritage of the Lord:
and the fruit of the womb is his reward. ” Psalm 127:3
“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
PRESS ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact,
Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn, ph. (803) 731-0062
Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life, ph. (803) 765-0916
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
End of 2006 SC Legislative session report on :
1. the “Right to Life Act of South Carolina”
H.3213 / S.111
2. the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial
H.3338
Columbia Christians for Life & Voice of the Unborn are having a joint news conference on May 30, 2006 (last week of regular 2006 Legislative session) to give a report on the current status of the Right to Life Act of South Carolina (H.3213 / S.111) and the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial (H.3338) as the 2006 SC Legislative session comes to an end on June 1. The news conference will be at 11:45 AM inside our State House, on the first floor, right outside the Governor’s office.
Supporters are being invited to come and please stand with us to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are seeking to defend the precious lives of our unborn children and make abortion illegal in SC through the Right to Life Act of SC; and to memorialize and repent for the loss of over 310,000 children destroyed already since 1973, by surgical abortion alone, through the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial.
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“Lo: children are an heritage of the Lord:
and the fruit of the womb is his reward. ” Psalm 127:3
“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
PRESS ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, May 17, 2006
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact,
Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn, ph. (803) 731-0062
Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life, ph. (803) 765-0916
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
'JESUS IS PRO-LIFE'
NEWS CONFERENCE
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
11:45 AM
First Floor, SC State House
End of 2006 SC Legislative session report on :
1. the “Right to Life Act of South Carolina”
H.3213 / S.111
2. the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial
H.3338
Columbia Christians for Life & Voice of the Unborn are having a joint news conference on May 30, 2006 (last week of regular 2006 Legislative session) to give a report on the current status of the Right to Life Act of South Carolina (H.3213 / S.111) and the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial (H.3338) as the 2006 SC Legislative session comes to an end on June 1. The news conference will be at 11:45 AM inside our State House, on the first floor, right outside the Governor’s office.
Supporters are being invited to come and please stand with us to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are seeking to defend the precious lives of our unborn children and make abortion illegal in SC through the Right to Life Act of SC; and to memorialize and repent for the loss of over 310,000 children destroyed already since 1973, by surgical abortion alone, through the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial.
EXODUS 20:13 “THOU SHALT NOT KILL”
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Note: Formatted, one-page version of the above Press Advisory may be obtained from Columbia Christians for Life CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
May 10, 2006
REPUBLICANS IN S.C. SENATE PROLONG CHILD-KILLING:
A version of this memo, "Will the GOP lose the US House in 2006 ?," accompanied by the flyer further below, is being sent to the 26 Republican State Senators at the SC State House in Columbia :
Memo:
Will the GOP lose the US House in 2006 ?
The GOP has failed to get the job done on: Immigration, ABORTION, federal spending, China trade deficit, exodus of manufacturing jobs & plants. And the War in Iraq is a tragedy.
__________________________________
The flyer below was presented as distribution for all 46 members of the SC Senate (26 R's and 20 D's),all 124 members of the SC House (74 R's and 50 D's), the Republican SC Governor, the Republican SC Lt Governor, and the Republican SC Attorney General on May 9th. The flyer is also being sent to the 26 Republican State Senators with the Memo above, "Will the GOP lose the US House in 2006 ?," at the SC State House in Columbia :
_________________________________
_________________________________
Flyer:
REPUBLICANS IN S.C. SENATE PROLONG CHILD-KILLING:
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC House (74 R's to 50 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC Senate (26 R's to 20 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina occupy the Governor's office, the Lt. Governor's office, and the Attorney General's office.
REFUSE TO TAKE ACTION TO PASS
the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina"
South Carolina's pro-life bill to end "legalized" abortion (House bill H.3213 / Senate bill S.111)
The 2006 regular session of the SC Legislature is scheduled to end on June 1, 2006. Incredibly, even though the SC House version (H.3213) of the Right to Life Act of SC passed the SC House on Second Reading (with 52 co-sponsors: 47 R's and 5 D's), on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95Y to 18N (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that must be removed),the bill has gone nowhere in the SC Senate after two hearings in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R). It has now sat in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee for over one year, and there are less than 30 days left in the 2006 session. If nothing changes, the bill will die June 1st, and the 6,500+ children murdered every year in South Carolina by surgical abortion, primarily at the state's three abortion centers in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, will have to wait until the 2007 session for new legislation to pass, at the earliest.
Of the 26 Republicans in the SC Senate, only seven have signed on as co-sponsors of S.111: Sponsors: Senators Fair, Bryant, Grooms, Thomas, Verdin, Hayes and Ryberg
You can see the text and co-sponsors of bills H.3213 and S.111 from the homepage link at: http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ or go to the SC Legislative website at: www.scstatehouse.net
So only 7 (27%) out of 26 Republicans are co-sponsoring a bill to end the killing of 6,500+ pre-birth human beings in South Carolina each year (2004 statistics: Charleston abortion center: 2,835 murdered; Greenville abortion center: 2,359 murdered; Columbia abortion center: 1,335 murdered)
Below are the Republican SC State Senators who are not co-sponsoring S.111 (not a single one of the Democrat Senators are co-sponsors, not even those Senators who are also church ministers !):
Republican SC State Senate Non-Sponsors:
Sen. Thomas Alexander (R-Walhalla)
Sen. Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston)
Sen. Chip Campsen (R-Isle of Palms)
Sen. William Mescher (R-Pinopolis)
Sen. Ray Cleary (R-Murrells Inlet)
Sen. William O’Dell (R-Greenwood)
Sen. John Courson (R-Columbia)
Sen. Harvey Peeler (R-Gaffney)
Sen. Ronnie Cromer (R-Prosperity)
Sen. Luke Rankin (R-Myrtle Beach)
Sen. Greg Gregory (R-Lancaster)
Sen. Scott Richardson (R-Hilton Head Island)
Sen. John Hawkins (R-Spartanburg)
Sen. Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg)
Sen. Jake Knotts (R-West Columbia)
Sen. Randy Scott (R-Summerville)
Sen. Hugh Leatherman (R-Florence)
Sen. Verne Smith (R-Greer)
Sen. Larry Martin (R-Pickens)
Fax all SC Senators at 803-212-6299 (include Senator’s name); other contact information for SC Senators at: www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/senatebios.html
Ask all Senators to co-sponsor S.111 and pass the bill.
Please especially call Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville), Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg), and Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston) to work for passage of the Right to Life Act in the SC Senate !
Please call Republican Governor Mark Sanford to use his influence and the 'bully pulpit' of his office, to pass the Right to Life Act (phone 803-734-2100, fax 803-734-0546 and fax 803-734-9413)
Prepared by Columbia Christians for Life * http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/ * 803-765-0916 * Columbia, SC ________________________________________________
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The one-page flyer above, formatted as it was distributed to members of the SC Legislature, the SC Governor, the SC Lt Governor, and the SC Attorney General.
Principled Christians and pro-lifers in SC are asked to print out the one-page flyer [contact Columbia Christians for Life at: CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net for a copy of this flyer], and distribute it far and wide:
to family and friends, people at church and work, public places, and anywhere people gather, urging them to contact their SC State Senator to co-sponsor S.111, the Right to Life Act of SC.
Make 100 photocopies at the copy shop and distribute them. Help end child-murder-by-abortion in SC !_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life Columbia, SC
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net (click on 'RTL Act of SC' button)
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
May 10, 2006
Memo:
Will the GOP lose the US House in 2006 ?
The GOP has failed to get the job done on: Immigration, ABORTION, federal spending, China trade deficit, exodus of manufacturing jobs & plants. And the War in Iraq is a tragedy.
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The flyer below was presented as distribution for all 46 members of the SC Senate (26 R's and 20 D's),all 124 members of the SC House (74 R's and 50 D's), the Republican SC Governor, the Republican SC Lt Governor, and the Republican SC Attorney General on May 9th. The flyer is also being sent to the 26 Republican State Senators with the Memo above, "Will the GOP lose the US House in 2006 ?," at the SC State House in Columbia :
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Flyer:
REPUBLICANS IN S.C. SENATE PROLONG CHILD-KILLING:
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC House (74 R's to 50 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC Senate (26 R's to 20 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina occupy the Governor's office, the Lt. Governor's office, and the Attorney General's office.
REFUSE TO TAKE ACTION TO PASS
the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina"
South Carolina's pro-life bill to end "legalized" abortion (House bill H.3213 / Senate bill S.111)
The 2006 regular session of the SC Legislature is scheduled to end on June 1, 2006. Incredibly, even though the SC House version (H.3213) of the Right to Life Act of SC passed the SC House on Second Reading (with 52 co-sponsors: 47 R's and 5 D's), on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95Y to 18N (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that must be removed),the bill has gone nowhere in the SC Senate after two hearings in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R). It has now sat in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee for over one year, and there are less than 30 days left in the 2006 session. If nothing changes, the bill will die June 1st, and the 6,500+ children murdered every year in South Carolina by surgical abortion, primarily at the state's three abortion centers in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, will have to wait until the 2007 session for new legislation to pass, at the earliest.
Of the 26 Republicans in the SC Senate, only seven have signed on as co-sponsors of S.111: Sponsors: Senators Fair, Bryant, Grooms, Thomas, Verdin, Hayes and Ryberg
You can see the text and co-sponsors of bills H.3213 and S.111 from the homepage link at: http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ or go to the SC Legislative website at: www.scstatehouse.net
So only 7 (27%) out of 26 Republicans are co-sponsoring a bill to end the killing of 6,500+ pre-birth human beings in South Carolina each year (2004 statistics: Charleston abortion center: 2,835 murdered; Greenville abortion center: 2,359 murdered; Columbia abortion center: 1,335 murdered)
Below are the Republican SC State Senators who are not co-sponsoring S.111 (not a single one of the Democrat Senators are co-sponsors, not even those Senators who are also church ministers !):
Republican SC State Senate Non-Sponsors:
Sen. Thomas Alexander (R-Walhalla)
Sen. Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston)
Sen. Chip Campsen (R-Isle of Palms)
Sen. William Mescher (R-Pinopolis)
Sen. Ray Cleary (R-Murrells Inlet)
Sen. William O’Dell (R-Greenwood)
Sen. John Courson (R-Columbia)
Sen. Harvey Peeler (R-Gaffney)
Sen. Ronnie Cromer (R-Prosperity)
Sen. Luke Rankin (R-Myrtle Beach)
Sen. Greg Gregory (R-Lancaster)
Sen. Scott Richardson (R-Hilton Head Island)
Sen. John Hawkins (R-Spartanburg)
Sen. Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg)
Sen. Jake Knotts (R-West Columbia)
Sen. Randy Scott (R-Summerville)
Sen. Hugh Leatherman (R-Florence)
Sen. Verne Smith (R-Greer)
Sen. Larry Martin (R-Pickens)
Fax all SC Senators at 803-212-6299 (include Senator’s name); other contact information for SC Senators at: www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/senatebios.html
Ask all Senators to co-sponsor S.111 and pass the bill.
Please especially call Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville), Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg), and Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston) to work for passage of the Right to Life Act in the SC Senate !
Please call Republican Governor Mark Sanford to use his influence and the 'bully pulpit' of his office, to pass the Right to Life Act (phone 803-734-2100, fax 803-734-0546 and fax 803-734-9413)
Prepared by Columbia Christians for Life * http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/ * 803-765-0916 * Columbia, SC ________________________________________________
________________________________________________
The one-page flyer above, formatted as it was distributed to members of the SC Legislature, the SC Governor, the SC Lt Governor, and the SC Attorney General.
Principled Christians and pro-lifers in SC are asked to print out the one-page flyer [contact Columbia Christians for Life at: CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net for a copy of this flyer], and distribute it far and wide:
to family and friends, people at church and work, public places, and anywhere people gather, urging them to contact their SC State Senator to co-sponsor S.111, the Right to Life Act of SC.
Make 100 photocopies at the copy shop and distribute them. Help end child-murder-by-abortion in SC !_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life Columbia, SC
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net (click on 'RTL Act of SC' button)
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
May 10, 2006
May 05, 2006
Less than one month in SC's 2006 session before RTL Act of SC dies !
... unless the GOP-majority SC Senate passes bill by June 1st
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC House (74 R's to 50 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC Senate (26 R's to 20 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina occupy the Governor's office, the Lt. Governor's office, and the Attorney General's office.
Please call Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville), Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg),and Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston) to work for passage of the Right to Life Act in the SC Senate ! (see the Senators' contact info below)
Please call Republican Governor Mark Sanford to use his influence and the 'bully pulpit' of his office, to pass the Right to Life Act (phone 803-734-2100,fax 803-734-0546 and fax 803-734-9413)
The Right to Life Act of SC was first introduced in the SC House in 1998. It has been an active bill in the SC House every year since, with public hearings in 2001,2004, and 2005. It took 7 years to get the bill through the SC House in 2005, even though the Republicans have been in the majority in the SC House for 10 years since (and including) 1995. The current House version is H.3213.
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm
The Right to Life Act of SC was first introduced in the SC Senate in 1998. It was not introduced again until 7 years later, in 2005. After H.3213 passed the SC House in April 2005, there were two public hearings on the Right to Life Act in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee of Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg) in May 2005. That is the last action that Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee has taken on the bill. The current Senate version is S.111.
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm
Both H.3213 and S.111 are in Senator Ritchie's Subcommitee, where four of the five State Senators who can vote on the bill are Republicans. The other three Republicans beside Senator Ritchie are: Senator Luke Rankin (R-Conway), Senator Randy Scott (R-Summerville), and Senator Glenn McConnell(R-Charleston). Senator McConnell has a vote according to Senate rulesbecause he is the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary Committee.
The 2006 regular session of the SC Legislature is scheduled to end on June 1, 2006.
Incredibly, even though the SC House version (H.3213) of the Right to Life Act of SC passed the SC House on Second Reading (with 52 co-sponsors; 47 R's and 5 D's), on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95 to 18 (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that must be removed), the bill has gone nowhere in the SC Senate after two hearings in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R). It has now sat in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee for over one year, and there are less than 30 days left in the 2006 session. If nothing changes, the bill will die June 1st, and the 6,500+ children murdered every year in South Carolina by surgical abortion, primarily at the state's three abortion centers in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, will have to wait until the 2007 session for new legislation to pass, at the earliest.
25 children a week die in Columbia,
45 children a week die in Greenville,
55 children a week die in Charleston,
and SC pro-life Senators want to wait another year until the 2007 legislative session to establish justice for pre-birth human beings and protect their lives:
www.siliconvalley.com/mld/thestate/news/local/14134771.htm
The State, Columbia, SC - Posted on Sun, Mar. 19, 2006
“We (supporters of limits) basically got together and decided abortion wouldn’t be an issue this year,” Sen. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, said of supporters of limiting abortion. “Had we known South Dakota would have done what they did, there would have been thoughtful consideration on testing the waters here, I assure you.”
The time is now to pass legislation to ban child-murder, not a year from now !
The South Carolina Senate has 46 members: 26 Republicans and 20 Democrats. There are five Senators who may vote on Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee; of the five, four of them are Republicans. So let us make no mistake about this. It is the party in power, the party in the majority, the Republicans, who are refusing to pass this bill, who are refusing to "establish justice" for the unborn, and protect these children who cannot speak for themselves.
Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee is part of the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Glenn McConnell, who may also, according to Senate rules, vote on Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee. Senator McConnell is one of the four Republicans on Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee that can vote on this bill. The other two are Senator Randy Scott and Senator Luke Rankin.
If something is to be done to protect the unborn this year instead of waiting until next year, there are only 27 days left in the session to act.
What can you do ? Call, write, or fax Republican Senators Mike Fair, Jim Ritchie, and Glenn McConnell as soon as possible. Ask them not to allow the bill to die, but instead to work for its passage, beginning with a vote in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee, and then a vote in Senator McConnell's full Judiciary Committee, and then a vote on the floor of the full SC Senate (Senator McConnell, perhaps the most influential Senator in SC, is also President, Pro Tempore, of the full46-member SC Senate).
Call or fax Republican Governor Mark Sanford as soon as possible. Ask him to use his influence and his 'bully pulpit' as Governor (as he has done on other issues), to take action on this, his second most important duty as Governor, the prevention of the shedding of innocent blood in South Carolina. (His first duty a Governor is to acknowledge and honor the God of the Bible - Psalm 2).
Children in South Carolina continue to die at the rate of 125 per week, and waiting until 2007 while children are being murdered now is unacceptable !
Please phone, write, or fax these three key REPUBLICAN STATE SENATORS below, and ask them not to accept allowing the Right to Life Act of SC to die, but instead continuing to work for a vote on the bill in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee, and then a vote in Senator McConnell's full Judiciary Committee, and then a vote on the floor of the full SC Senate, BEFORE the session ends on June 1st:
1. Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville), the Senate sponsor of the bill:
District 6 - Greenville Co. (H) P.O. Box 14632, Greenville, 29610
Bus. (864)246-4257 Home (864) 246-4257
(C) 211 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803)212-6420 Home
Fax - 803-212-6299
(include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax !)
2. Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg), chairman of the Subcommitee:
District 13 - Greenville, Spartanburg & Union Cos. (H) 302 South Pine St., Spartanburg, 29302
Bus. (864)585-2275 Home (864)585-6047 (C) 608 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6008/6032 Fax - 803-212-6299
(include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax !)
3. Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), chairman of the full Committee:
District 41 Charleston County (H) 27 Bainbridge Dr., Charleston, 29407
Bus. (843)747-7554 Home (843)571-3921
(C) 101 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202 / Bus. (803) 212-6610
Fax - 803-212-6606/6600
______________________________________________
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, South Carolina
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (click on 'RTL ACT of SC' button)
May 5, 2006
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC House (74 R's to 50 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC Senate (26 R's to 20 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina occupy the Governor's office, the Lt. Governor's office, and the Attorney General's office.
Please call Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville), Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg),and Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston) to work for passage of the Right to Life Act in the SC Senate ! (see the Senators' contact info below)
Please call Republican Governor Mark Sanford to use his influence and the 'bully pulpit' of his office, to pass the Right to Life Act (phone 803-734-2100,fax 803-734-0546 and fax 803-734-9413)
The Right to Life Act of SC was first introduced in the SC House in 1998. It has been an active bill in the SC House every year since, with public hearings in 2001,2004, and 2005. It took 7 years to get the bill through the SC House in 2005, even though the Republicans have been in the majority in the SC House for 10 years since (and including) 1995. The current House version is H.3213.
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm
The Right to Life Act of SC was first introduced in the SC Senate in 1998. It was not introduced again until 7 years later, in 2005. After H.3213 passed the SC House in April 2005, there were two public hearings on the Right to Life Act in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee of Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg) in May 2005. That is the last action that Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee has taken on the bill. The current Senate version is S.111.
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm
Both H.3213 and S.111 are in Senator Ritchie's Subcommitee, where four of the five State Senators who can vote on the bill are Republicans. The other three Republicans beside Senator Ritchie are: Senator Luke Rankin (R-Conway), Senator Randy Scott (R-Summerville), and Senator Glenn McConnell(R-Charleston). Senator McConnell has a vote according to Senate rulesbecause he is the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary Committee.
The 2006 regular session of the SC Legislature is scheduled to end on June 1, 2006.
Incredibly, even though the SC House version (H.3213) of the Right to Life Act of SC passed the SC House on Second Reading (with 52 co-sponsors; 47 R's and 5 D's), on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95 to 18 (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that must be removed), the bill has gone nowhere in the SC Senate after two hearings in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R). It has now sat in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee for over one year, and there are less than 30 days left in the 2006 session. If nothing changes, the bill will die June 1st, and the 6,500+ children murdered every year in South Carolina by surgical abortion, primarily at the state's three abortion centers in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, will have to wait until the 2007 session for new legislation to pass, at the earliest.
25 children a week die in Columbia,
45 children a week die in Greenville,
55 children a week die in Charleston,
and SC pro-life Senators want to wait another year until the 2007 legislative session to establish justice for pre-birth human beings and protect their lives:
www.siliconvalley.com/mld/thestate/news/local/14134771.htm
The State, Columbia, SC - Posted on Sun, Mar. 19, 2006
“We (supporters of limits) basically got together and decided abortion wouldn’t be an issue this year,” Sen. Mike Fair, R-Greenville, said of supporters of limiting abortion. “Had we known South Dakota would have done what they did, there would have been thoughtful consideration on testing the waters here, I assure you.”
The time is now to pass legislation to ban child-murder, not a year from now !
The South Carolina Senate has 46 members: 26 Republicans and 20 Democrats. There are five Senators who may vote on Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee; of the five, four of them are Republicans. So let us make no mistake about this. It is the party in power, the party in the majority, the Republicans, who are refusing to pass this bill, who are refusing to "establish justice" for the unborn, and protect these children who cannot speak for themselves.
Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee is part of the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Glenn McConnell, who may also, according to Senate rules, vote on Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee. Senator McConnell is one of the four Republicans on Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee that can vote on this bill. The other two are Senator Randy Scott and Senator Luke Rankin.
If something is to be done to protect the unborn this year instead of waiting until next year, there are only 27 days left in the session to act.
What can you do ? Call, write, or fax Republican Senators Mike Fair, Jim Ritchie, and Glenn McConnell as soon as possible. Ask them not to allow the bill to die, but instead to work for its passage, beginning with a vote in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee, and then a vote in Senator McConnell's full Judiciary Committee, and then a vote on the floor of the full SC Senate (Senator McConnell, perhaps the most influential Senator in SC, is also President, Pro Tempore, of the full46-member SC Senate).
Call or fax Republican Governor Mark Sanford as soon as possible. Ask him to use his influence and his 'bully pulpit' as Governor (as he has done on other issues), to take action on this, his second most important duty as Governor, the prevention of the shedding of innocent blood in South Carolina. (His first duty a Governor is to acknowledge and honor the God of the Bible - Psalm 2).
Children in South Carolina continue to die at the rate of 125 per week, and waiting until 2007 while children are being murdered now is unacceptable !
Please phone, write, or fax these three key REPUBLICAN STATE SENATORS below, and ask them not to accept allowing the Right to Life Act of SC to die, but instead continuing to work for a vote on the bill in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee, and then a vote in Senator McConnell's full Judiciary Committee, and then a vote on the floor of the full SC Senate, BEFORE the session ends on June 1st:
1. Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville), the Senate sponsor of the bill:
District 6 - Greenville Co. (H) P.O. Box 14632, Greenville, 29610
Bus. (864)246-4257 Home (864) 246-4257
(C) 211 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803)212-6420 Home
Fax - 803-212-6299
(include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax !)
2. Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg), chairman of the Subcommitee:
District 13 - Greenville, Spartanburg & Union Cos. (H) 302 South Pine St., Spartanburg, 29302
Bus. (864)585-2275 Home (864)585-6047 (C) 608 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6008/6032 Fax - 803-212-6299
(include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax !)
3. Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), chairman of the full Committee:
District 41 Charleston County (H) 27 Bainbridge Dr., Charleston, 29407
Bus. (843)747-7554 Home (843)571-3921
(C) 101 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202 / Bus. (803) 212-6610
Fax - 803-212-6606/6600
______________________________________________
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, South Carolina
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (click on 'RTL ACT of SC' button)
May 5, 2006
May 03, 2006
South Carolina State Senator's prophetic utterance:
"Whose hands is da’ blood goin' to be on ?"
The flyer below was presented as distribution for all members of the SC Senate (46), SC House (124), the SC Governor, the SC Lt Governor, and the SC Attorney General on May 2d.
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Senator Leatherman's prophetic utterance:
"Whose hands is da’ blood goin' to be on ?"
During the state budget debate on the floor of the SC Senate o/a April 25, 2006, the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Hugh Leatherman (R) said:
“Hurricanes are inevitable. They’re coming. Look down in Louisiana. We need to get prepared for them. Suppose the hurricane comes. Whose hands is da’ blood goin’ to be on ? It’s goin’ to be on your hands and my hands. I’ll tell you that.”
Source: Excerpt from “State House Tonight,” produced by SC ETV on State House activity for legislative Week of April 25-27, 2006
Senator Leatherman was talking about the danger of cutting certain items from the state budget, including, specifically, items requested by the SC governor for hurricane/disaster preparedness. His point apparently was that if the money wasn’t allocated, the blood of any of those harmed as a result would be on the hands of members of the SC Senate for not allocating.
Beyond what Senator Leatherman meant by this statement, was God sending a further message of His own to the Senate of South Carolina ?
WHAT ABOUT THE BLOOD THAT IS ALREADY ON THE HANDS OF THE SENATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOR THE 310,000+ PRE-BORN CHILDREN THAT HAVE BEEN MURDERED PRIMARILY IN GREENVILLE, COLUMBIA, AND CHARLESTON SINCE ’73 ?
Will it take another Hurricane like Katrina, stronger than Hugo in 1989, to humble our SC Senate ? This same SC Senate that has “sat” on a bill to ban child-murder by abortion for over a year since it passed the SC House on April 14, 2005 ? The bill is called the “Right to Life Act of South Carolina” and the House version (H.3213) passed in 2005 (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment), but the Senate Judiciary (Chairman Senator Glenn McConnell (R)) Subcommittee of Senator Jim Ritchie (R) has refused to take a vote on the bill, or the unamended Senate companion bill (S.111). Four of the five Senators who can vote in Senator Ritchie’s Subcommittee are Republicans !!!
The SC Senate has a Republican majority, with 26 Republicans to 20 Democrats. The RTL Act is a bill to recognize the legal ‘personhood’ of all pre-birth human beings, at fertilization. This bill would ban all legalized child-murder-by-abortion, because the SC State Constitution, in Art. I., Sec. 3, already protects legal ‘persons’ from being deprived of life without due process.
Of the 26 Republicans in the SC Senate, only seven have signed on as co-sponsors of S.111:
Sponsors: Senators Fair, Bryant, Grooms, Thomas, Verdin, Hayes and Ryberg
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm
So only 7 (27%) out of 26 Republicans are co-sponsoring a bill to end the killing of approx. 6,500+ pre-birth human beings in South Carolina each year (2004 statistics: Charleston abortion center: 2,835 murdered; Greenville abortion center: 2,359 murdered; Columbia abortion center: 1,335 murdered)
These are the Republican SC State Senators who are not co-sponsoring S.111 (not a single one of the Democrat Senators are co-sponsors, not even those Senators who are also church ministers):
Non-Sponsors: Senator Alexander, Cleary, Cromer, Campsen, Courson, Gregory, Hawkins, Knotts, Leatherman, Martin, McConnell, Mescher, O’Dell, Peeler, Rankin, Richardson, Ritchie, Scott, Smith.
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, South Carolina
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (click on 'RTL ACT of SC' button)
May 1, 2006
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Less than one month in 2006 session before RTL Act of SC dies !
The 2006 regular session of the SC Legislature is scheduled to end on June 1, 2006.
Incredibly, even though the SC House version (H.3213) of the Right to Life Act of SC passed the House on Second Reading on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95 to 18 (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that must be removed), the bill has gone nowhere in the SC Senate after two Subcommittee hearings in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R). It has now sat in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee for over one year, and there are now less than 30 days left in the 2006 session. If nothing changes, the bill will die June 1, and the 6,500+ children murdered every year in South Carolina by surgical abortion, primarily at the state's three abortion centers in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, will have to wait until the 2007 session for new legislation to pass.
The South Carolina Senate has 46 members: 26 Republicans and 20 Democrats.
There are five Senators who may vote on Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee; of the five, four of them are Republicans. So let us make no mistake about this.
It is the party in power, the party in the majority, the Republicans, who are refusing to pass this bill, who are refusing to "establish justice" for the unborn,and protect these children who cannot speak for themselves.
Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee is part of the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Glenn McConnell, who may also, according to Senate rules, vote on Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee. Senator McConnell is one of the four Republicans on Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee that can vote on this bill. The other two are Senator Randy Scott and Senator Luke Rankin.
If something is to be done to protect the unborn this year instead of waiting until next year, there are only 29 days left in the session to act.
What can you do ? Call, write, or fax Republican Senators Mike Fair, Jim Ritchie, and Glenn McConnell as soon as possible. Ask them not to allow the bill to die.
Children in South Carolina continue to die at the rate of 125 per week, and waiting until 2007 while children are being murdered now is unacceptable !
Please phone, write, or fax these three key REPUBLICAN STATE SENATORS below,and ask them not to accept allowing the Right to Life Act of SC to die, but instead continuing to work for a vote on the bill in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee BEFORE the session ends on June 1st:
1. Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville), the Senate sponsor of the bill:
District 6 - Greenville Co. (H) P.O. Box 14632, Greenville, 29610
Bus. (864) 246-4257 Home (864) 246-4257
(C) 211 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6420 Home
Fax - 803-212-6299
(include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax !)
2. Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg), chairman of the Subcommitee:
District 13 - Greenville, Spartanburg & Union Cos. (H) 302 South Pine St., Spartanburg, 29302
Bus. (864)585-2275 Home (864)585-6047 (C) 608 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6008/6032 Fax - 803-212-6299
(include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax !)
3. Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), chairman of the full Committee:
District 41 Charleston County (H) 27 Bainbridge Dr., Charleston, 29407
Bus. (843)747-7554 Home (843)571-3921
(C) 101 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202 / Bus. (803) 212-6610
Fax - (803)-212-6606
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, South Carolina
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (click on 'RTL ACT of SC' button)
May 3, 2006
The flyer below was presented as distribution for all members of the SC Senate (46), SC House (124), the SC Governor, the SC Lt Governor, and the SC Attorney General on May 2d.
___________________________
Senator Leatherman's prophetic utterance:
"Whose hands is da’ blood goin' to be on ?"
During the state budget debate on the floor of the SC Senate o/a April 25, 2006, the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Hugh Leatherman (R) said:
“Hurricanes are inevitable. They’re coming. Look down in Louisiana. We need to get prepared for them. Suppose the hurricane comes. Whose hands is da’ blood goin’ to be on ? It’s goin’ to be on your hands and my hands. I’ll tell you that.”
Source: Excerpt from “State House Tonight,” produced by SC ETV on State House activity for legislative Week of April 25-27, 2006
Senator Leatherman was talking about the danger of cutting certain items from the state budget, including, specifically, items requested by the SC governor for hurricane/disaster preparedness. His point apparently was that if the money wasn’t allocated, the blood of any of those harmed as a result would be on the hands of members of the SC Senate for not allocating.
Beyond what Senator Leatherman meant by this statement, was God sending a further message of His own to the Senate of South Carolina ?
WHAT ABOUT THE BLOOD THAT IS ALREADY ON THE HANDS OF THE SENATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOR THE 310,000+ PRE-BORN CHILDREN THAT HAVE BEEN MURDERED PRIMARILY IN GREENVILLE, COLUMBIA, AND CHARLESTON SINCE ’73 ?
Will it take another Hurricane like Katrina, stronger than Hugo in 1989, to humble our SC Senate ? This same SC Senate that has “sat” on a bill to ban child-murder by abortion for over a year since it passed the SC House on April 14, 2005 ? The bill is called the “Right to Life Act of South Carolina” and the House version (H.3213) passed in 2005 (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment), but the Senate Judiciary (Chairman Senator Glenn McConnell (R)) Subcommittee of Senator Jim Ritchie (R) has refused to take a vote on the bill, or the unamended Senate companion bill (S.111). Four of the five Senators who can vote in Senator Ritchie’s Subcommittee are Republicans !!!
The SC Senate has a Republican majority, with 26 Republicans to 20 Democrats. The RTL Act is a bill to recognize the legal ‘personhood’ of all pre-birth human beings, at fertilization. This bill would ban all legalized child-murder-by-abortion, because the SC State Constitution, in Art. I., Sec. 3, already protects legal ‘persons’ from being deprived of life without due process.
Of the 26 Republicans in the SC Senate, only seven have signed on as co-sponsors of S.111:
Sponsors: Senators Fair, Bryant, Grooms, Thomas, Verdin, Hayes and Ryberg
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm
So only 7 (27%) out of 26 Republicans are co-sponsoring a bill to end the killing of approx. 6,500+ pre-birth human beings in South Carolina each year (2004 statistics: Charleston abortion center: 2,835 murdered; Greenville abortion center: 2,359 murdered; Columbia abortion center: 1,335 murdered)
These are the Republican SC State Senators who are not co-sponsoring S.111 (not a single one of the Democrat Senators are co-sponsors, not even those Senators who are also church ministers):
Non-Sponsors: Senator Alexander, Cleary, Cromer, Campsen, Courson, Gregory, Hawkins, Knotts, Leatherman, Martin, McConnell, Mescher, O’Dell, Peeler, Rankin, Richardson, Ritchie, Scott, Smith.
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, South Carolina
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (click on 'RTL ACT of SC' button)
May 1, 2006
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Less than one month in 2006 session before RTL Act of SC dies !
The 2006 regular session of the SC Legislature is scheduled to end on June 1, 2006.
Incredibly, even though the SC House version (H.3213) of the Right to Life Act of SC passed the House on Second Reading on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95 to 18 (albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that must be removed), the bill has gone nowhere in the SC Senate after two Subcommittee hearings in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R). It has now sat in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee for over one year, and there are now less than 30 days left in the 2006 session. If nothing changes, the bill will die June 1, and the 6,500+ children murdered every year in South Carolina by surgical abortion, primarily at the state's three abortion centers in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston, will have to wait until the 2007 session for new legislation to pass.
The South Carolina Senate has 46 members: 26 Republicans and 20 Democrats.
There are five Senators who may vote on Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee; of the five, four of them are Republicans. So let us make no mistake about this.
It is the party in power, the party in the majority, the Republicans, who are refusing to pass this bill, who are refusing to "establish justice" for the unborn,and protect these children who cannot speak for themselves.
Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee is part of the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator Glenn McConnell, who may also, according to Senate rules, vote on Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee. Senator McConnell is one of the four Republicans on Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee that can vote on this bill. The other two are Senator Randy Scott and Senator Luke Rankin.
If something is to be done to protect the unborn this year instead of waiting until next year, there are only 29 days left in the session to act.
What can you do ? Call, write, or fax Republican Senators Mike Fair, Jim Ritchie, and Glenn McConnell as soon as possible. Ask them not to allow the bill to die.
Children in South Carolina continue to die at the rate of 125 per week, and waiting until 2007 while children are being murdered now is unacceptable !
Please phone, write, or fax these three key REPUBLICAN STATE SENATORS below,and ask them not to accept allowing the Right to Life Act of SC to die, but instead continuing to work for a vote on the bill in Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee BEFORE the session ends on June 1st:
1. Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville), the Senate sponsor of the bill:
District 6 - Greenville Co. (H) P.O. Box 14632, Greenville, 29610
Bus. (864) 246-4257 Home (864) 246-4257
(C) 211 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6420 Home
Fax - 803-212-6299
(include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax !)
2. Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg), chairman of the Subcommitee:
District 13 - Greenville, Spartanburg & Union Cos. (H) 302 South Pine St., Spartanburg, 29302
Bus. (864)585-2275 Home (864)585-6047 (C) 608 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6008/6032 Fax - 803-212-6299
(include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax !)
3. Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), chairman of the full Committee:
District 41 Charleston County (H) 27 Bainbridge Dr., Charleston, 29407
Bus. (843)747-7554 Home (843)571-3921
(C) 101 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202 / Bus. (803) 212-6610
Fax - (803)-212-6606
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Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, South Carolina
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (click on 'RTL ACT of SC' button)
May 3, 2006
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