At least four states have had principled, no ‘exceptions’ ban-abortion bills

At least four states have had principled, no ‘exceptions’ ban-abortion bills active in the 2005-2006 legislative sessions:

1. North Dakota - House Bill No. 1227 (failed to pass on North Dakota House Second Reading on February 16, 2005, Yeas 019 Nays 069).

2. Georgia - House Bill HB 93 (bill introduced January 2005).

3. Ohio - House Bill 228 (bill introduced April 2005). For more information, go to http://www.ohioabortionban.com/.

4. South Carolina - House Bill H.3213 (passed SC House of Representatives April 14, 2005 albeit with a 'fatal flaw' rape EXCEPTION amendment added on the SC House floor prior to vote on Second Reading of the bill on April 13; H.3213 sent to SC Senate. This 'fatal flaw' rape EXCEPTION amendment must now either be removed by the SC Senate, or the bill must be killed. First public hearing before Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 4, 2005; second public hearing before same Subcommittee on May 18, no vote was taken before session ended in June. New session began January 2006. Presently awaiting third hearing (Lord willing) before Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg, Greenville, Union), FOUR out of the five state senators who can vote on the bill in this Subcommittee are REPUBLICANS (Senators Ritchie, Rankin, Scott, and McConnell). For information and alerts on how to contact these men, go to http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/ and/or http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (click on 'RTL Act of SC')).

5. South Carolina - Senate Bill S.111 (companion bill to H.3213 - first public hearing before Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 4, 2005; second public hearing before same Subcommittee on May 18, no vote was taken before session ended in June. New session began January 2006. Presently awaiting third hearing (Lord willing) before Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg, Greenville, Union), FOUR out of the five state senators who can vote on the bill in this Subcommittee are REPUBLICANS (Senators Ritchie, Rankin, Scott, and McConnell). For information and alerts on how to contact these men, go to http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/ and/or http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (click on 'RTL Act of SC')).

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North Dakota House Bill No. 1227
www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-actions/ba1227.html

Georgia House Bill HB 93
www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/search/hb93.htm

Ohio House Bill 228
www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_228

South Carolina House Bill H.3213
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm

South Carolina Senate Bill S.111
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm

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Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
March 2, 2006

'Take Action to Pass the RTL Act of SC' - February 28, 2006

Latest update on status of next (3rd) hearing for the Right to Life Act of SC:

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee which presently holds the Right to Life Act of SC (H.3213/S.111) has indicated he is not inclined to bring up this bill to ban all abortions in South Carolina until after deliberating on another 'pro-life' bill called the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (S.1084),co-sponsored by, among others, Senators Jim Ritchie and Glenn McConnell. Neither Subcommittee chairman Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Greenville, Spartanburg, Union), nor the other three Republicans who can vote for the Right to Life Act of SC (H.3213/S.111) at the subcommittee level (i.e., Senators Luke Rankin (R-Myrtle Beach/Conway), Randy Scott (R-Summerville), Glenn McConnell (Charleston)) are presently co-sponsors of the Senate version of the bill (S.111). You can view the current co-sponsors of the Right to Life Act of SC bill on-line at:
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm

The next hearing on the Right to Life Act of SC (H3213/S111) will therefore not be this week (Feb 28, Mar 1-2), and it is unknown when the next public hearing might be. In the meantime...Mail / Fax State Senators the lobbying memo that can be downloaded from the internet at: 20. Blank Form - Memo Form for Lobbying SC Senate Members

This delay provides time for continued opportunity to lobby the five SC Senators who can vote on this bill (Senators Ritchie (R), Rankin (R), Scott (R), Lourie (D), and McConnell (R). FOUR of these five senators are REPUBLICANS. The 2004 National Republican Party Platform states: "... we endorse legislation to make it clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children." (i.e., due process and equal protection). So why are there only SIX co-sponsors of S.111 in the SC Senate (see www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm ) out of TWENTY-SIX (26) Republicans in the SC Senate, when S.111 vests legal personhood at fertilization for all pre-birth humans, thereby invoking the due process and equal protections in Article I., Section 3. of the SC State Constitution, and protecting all pre-birth human beings from murder by abortion ???

PLEASE PHONE, E-MAIL, WRITE, FAX, AND/OR VISIT ANY OR ALL OF THESE FIVE SC SENATORS, especially the FOUR REPUBLICANS, with this simple message:

"Please vote for and pass the Right to Life Act of SC without any amendments for exceptions. Please sign on as a co-sponsor of S.111."

(Out-of-State pro-lifers are welcome to lobby these men as well. If one state can pass principled, biblical, constitutional, ban-all-abortions (no "exceptions") legislation (as Ohio, Georgia, North Dakota, and New Hampshire have tried in addition to South Carolina), then perhaps that would help open the door for more states to do so as well.)

One easy way to lobby these public officials is to use the blank memo form used to lobby SC State Senators at the SC State House. Go to the link below to print out the Blank Form, and then fax or send it by regular mail to these FIVE SC State Senators at their home or Columbia addresses below.

20. Blank Form - Memo Form for Lobbying SC Senate Members

To see an example of a completed SC Senate lobbying form, go to the next link below (both links are at www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net - click on "RTL Act of SC" button).

21. Example Form - Memo Form for Lobbying SC Senate Members

These are the five members (4 R’s, 1 D) of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee which presently has the bill none of these five men are yet co-sponsors of the Right to Life Act of SC (S.111):

Senator Jim Ritchie, chairman (R - Spartanburg)
Senator Randy Scott (R - Summerville)
Senator Luke Rankin (R - Myrtle Beach)
Senator Joel Lourie (D - Columbia)
Senator Glenn McConnell, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (R - Charleston)

Contact info for SC Senators:

Ritchie (R), Scott (R), Rankin (R), Lourie (D) and McConnell (R):

NOTE: all Senators can be faxed at 803-212-6299 include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax !

Senator James H. "Jim" Ritchie, Jr. District 13 - Greenville, Spartanburg & Union Cos.
(H) 302 South Pine St., Spartanburg, 29302
Bus. (864)585-2275 Home (864)585-6047
E-Mail Address: JHR@scsenate.org
(C) 608 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202 /
Bus. (803) 212-6008/6032

Senator Randy Scott District 38 - Charleston & Dorchester Cos.
(H) 107 Cleveland St., Summerville, 29483
Bus. (843)873-5544 Home (843)871-2964
E-Mail Address: SCOTTR@scsenate.org
(C) 606 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202 /
Bus. (803) 212-6024

Senator Luke A. Rankin, Sr. District 33 - Horry Co.
(H) 201 Beaty St., Conway, 29526
Bus. (843)248-2405 Home (843)626-6269
E-Mail Address: LR@scsenate.org
(C) 508 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202 /
Bus. (803) 212-6132

Senator Joel Lourie District 22 - Kershaw & Richland Cos.
(H) P.O. Box 6212, Columbia, 29260
Bus.(803)765-9200 ext.257 Home(803)787-5802
E-Mail Addr: JBL@scsenate.org
(C) 504 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202 /
Bus. (803) 212-6116

Senator Glenn F. McConnell (Senate Judiciary Committee chairman) District 41 Charleston County
(H) 27 Bainbridge Dr., Charleston, 29407
Bus. (843)747-7554 Home (843)571-3921
E-Mail Address: SJU@scsenate.org
(C) 101 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202 /
Bus. (803) 212-6610

Note: Senator McConnell only can also be reached by fax at: (803)212-6606

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February 28, 2006
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RightoLifeActofSC.net
(803) 765-0916

The Right to Life Act of SC was first filed in 1998. It finally passed the Republican-majority SC House (74 Republicans/50 Democrats)last year on 2nd Reading on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95 Y - 18 N, albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that now must be removed in the SC Senate, or the bill must be killed.

There were two Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearings on this bill last year (May 4 and May 18, 2005), chaired by Senator Ritchie (R). No votes were taken. If the Right to Life Act of SC does not get passed this year by the SC Senate, then the process would have to start over again from the beginning next year (2007). The upcoming (Lord willing) Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie, with four other Senators also having the opportunity to vote on this bill (Senators Rankin (R), Scott (R), Lourie (D), and McConnell (R), is the next critical step in the legislative process. Are the Republicans, with 4 out of 5 voting members on Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee, truly pro-life ?

If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, please pray Proverb 21:1 over these five men. Thank you. Praise the Lord. King Jesus is Lord of the 'Gates' - Matthew 16:18.

Right to Life Act of SC - mail / fax State Senators lobbying memo

Latest update from staff of SC Senate Judiciary Committee (2/16/06):

the next hearing on the Right to Life Act of SC (H3213/S111) will likely not be next week (Feb 21-22-23), but because of the Senate workload (and the fact that establishing justice for pre-birth human beings is not Priority # 1), it looks like the soonest that Senator Jim Ritchie's (R-Greenville, Spartanburg, Union) Judiciary Subcommittee will take up the Right to Life Act of SC would be the following week (Feb 28, Mar 1-2).

That provides the opportunity for another full week to lobby the five SC Senators who can vote on this bill (Senators Ritchie (R), Rankin (R), Scott (R), Lourie (D), and McConnell (R). FOUR of these five senators are REPUBLICANS.

The 2004 National Republican Party Platform states:

"... we endorse legislation to make it clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children." (i.e., due process and equal protection).

So why are there only SIX co-sponsors of S.111 in the SC Senate (see www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm ) out of TWENTY-SIX (26) Republicans in the SC Senate, when S.111 vests legal personhood at fertilization for all pre-birth humans, thereby invoking the due process and equal protections in Article I., Section 3. of the SC State Constitution ???

PLEASE PHONE, E-MAIL, WRITE, FAX, AND/OR VISIT ANY OR ALL OF THESE FIVE SC SENATORS, especially the FOUR REPUBLICANS, with this simple message:

"Please vote for and pass the Right to Life Act of SC without any amendments for exceptions. Please sign on as a co-sponsor of S.111."

(Out-of-State pro-lifers are welcome to lobby these men as well. If one state can pass principled, biblical, constitutional, ban-all-abortions (no "exceptions") legislation (as Ohio, Georgia, North Dakota, and New Hampshire have tried in addition to South Carolina), then perhaps that would help open the door for more states to do so as well.)

One easy way to lobby these public officials is to use the blank memo form used to lobby SC State Senators at the SC State House. Go to the link below to print out the Blank Form, and then fax or send it by regular mail to these FIVE SC State Senators at their home or Columbia addresses below.

20. Blank Form - Memo Form for Lobbying SC Senate Members

To see an example of a completed SC Senate lobbying form, go to the next link below (both links are at http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ - click on"RTL Act of SC" button).

21. Example Form - Memo Form for Lobbying SC Senate Members

These are the five members (4 R’s, 1 D) of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee which presently has the bill -- none of these five men are yet co-sponsors of the Right to Life Act of SC (S.111):

Senator Jim Ritchie, chairman (R Spartanburg)
Senator Randy Scott (R Summerville)
Senator Luke Rankin (R Myrtle Beach)
Senator Joel Lourie (D Columbia)
Senator Glenn McConnell, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (R Charleston)

Contact info for SC Senators:

Ritchie (R), Scott (R), Rankin (R), Lourie (D) and McConnell (R):

NOTE: all Senators can be faxed at 803-212-6299 include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax !

Senator James H. "Jim" Ritchie, Jr. District 13 - Greenville, Spartanburg & Union Cos.
(H) 302 South Pine St., Spartanburg, 29302
Bus. (864) 585-2275
Home (864) 585-6047
E-Mail Address: JHR@scsenate.org
(C) 608 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6008/6032

Senator Randy Scott District 38 - Charleston & Dorchester Cos.
(H) 107 Cleveland St., Summerville, 29483
Bus. (843) 873-5544
Home (843) 871-2964
E-Mail Address: SCOTTR@scsenate.org
(C) 606 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6024

Senator Luke A. Rankin, Sr. District 33 - Horry Co.
(H) 201 Beaty St., Conway, 29526
Bus. (843) 248-2405
Home (843) 626-6269
E-Mail Address: LR@scsenate.org
(C) 508 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6132

Senator Joel Lourie District 22 - Kershaw & Richland Cos.
(H) P.O. Box 6212, Columbia, 29260
Bus.(803) 765-9200 ext.257
Home (803) 787-5802
E-Mail Address: JBL@scsenate.org
(C) 504 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6116

Senator Glenn F. McConnell (Senate Judiciary Committee chairman) District 41 Charleston County
(H) 27 Bainbridge Dr., Charleston, 29407
Bus. (843)747-7554
Home (843)571-3921
E-Mail Address: SJU@scsenate.org
(C) 101 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202 Bus. (803) 212-6610
Note: Senator McConnell only can also be reached by fax at: (803) 212-6606

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February 16, 2006
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RightoLifeActofSC.net
(803) 765-0916

The Right to Life Act of SC was first filed in 1998. It finally passed the Republican-majority SC House (74 Republicans/50 Democrats) last year on 2nd Reading on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95 Y - 18 N, albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment that now must be removed in the SC Senate, or the bill must be killed.

There were two Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearings on this bill last year (May 4 and May 18, 2005), chaired by Senator Ritchie (R).

No votes were taken. If the Right to Life Act of SC does not get passed this year by the SC Senate, then we would have to start over again from the beginning next year. The upcoming Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing, chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie, with four other Senators also having the opportunity to vote on this bill (Senators Rankin (R), Scott (R), Lourie (D), and McConnell (R), is the next critical step in the legislative process. If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, please pray Proverb 21:1 over these five men. Thank you. Praise the Lord.

SC Senate Hearing on Right to Life Act of SC - Thurs., Feb 2 - FALSE ALARM

CORRECTION: The alert put out yesterday (Feb. 1) regarding a SC Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Right to Life Act of SC (H.3213 / S.111) scheduled for today (Feb. 2) on the State House grounds, in the Gressette Building, Room 308 A, at 10:00 AM turned out to be incorrect. We found out after we arrived on the third floor of the Gressette Building this morning that S.111 was not on the agenda for the meeting. Due to a miscommunication by a staff member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee notified potentially interested parties about a hearing for another organization's bill, but it turned out that the hearing did not include the Right to Life Act of SC.

Based upon a statement made by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chairman, Sen. Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg) on January 24, we believe that Sen. Ritchie's Subcommittee will most likely take up the Right to Life Act of SC within the next three weeks, possibly sometime during the last week in February.

These are the five members (4 R’s, 1 D) of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee which presently has the bill none of these five men are yet co-sponsors of the Right to Life Act of SC (S.111):

Senator Jim Ritchie, chairman (R Spartanburg)
Senator Randy Scott (R Summerville)
Senator Luke Rankin (R Myrtle Beach)
Senator Joel Lourie (D Columbia)
Senator Glenn McConnell, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (R Charleston)

Please contact (call, e-mail, write, fax, visit) these five SC Senators between now and Monday, Feb. 20 with this request:

"Please vote for and pass the Right to Life Act of South Carolina without any amendments for exceptions."

(see contact information for each SC State Senator below:)

CHRISTIANS - PLEASE PRAY FOR THESE FIVE MEN !!! (Proverb 21:1)

Pray for passage of the Right to Life Act of SC (S.111/H.3213) without any amendments for "exceptions"

Contact info for SC Senators:
Ritchie (R), Scott (R), Rankin (R), Lourie (D) and McConnell (R):

NOTE: all Senators can be faxed at 803-212-6299 include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax !

Senator James H. "Jim" Ritchie, Jr. District 13 - Greenville, Spartanburg & Union Cos.
(H) 302 South Pine St., Spartanburg, 29302
Bus. (864)585-2275 Home (864)585-6047
E-Mail Address: JHR@scsenate.org
(C) 608 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6008/6032

Senator Randy Scott District 38 - Charleston & Dorchester Cos.
(H) 107 Cleveland St., Summerville, 29483
Bus. (843)873-5544 Home (843)871-2964
E-Mail Address: SCOTTR@scsenate.org
(C) 606 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6024

Senator Luke A. Rankin, Sr. District 33 - Horry Co.
(H) 201 Beaty St., Conway, 29526
Bus. (843)248-2405 Home (843)626-6269
E-Mail Address: LR@scsenate.org
(C) 508 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6132

Senator Joel Lourie District 22 - Kershaw & Richland Cos.
(H) P.O. Box 6212, Columbia, 29260
Bus.(803)765-9200 ext.257 Home(803)787-5802
E-Mail Addr: JBL@scsenate.org
(C) 504 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6116

Senator Glenn F. McConnell (Senate Judiciary Committee chairman) District 41 Charleston Co.
(H) 27 Bainbridge Dr., Charleston, 29407
Bus. (843)747-7554 Home (843)571-3921
E-Mail Address: SJU@scsenate.org
(C) 101 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6610
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SOUTH CAROLINA is one of FIVE states (in addition to OHIO, GEORGIA, NORTH DAKOTA, and NEW HAMPSHIRE) which have had active, principled, biblical, constitutional, ban-all-abortion bills (i.e., no "exceptions") state-level bills in their respective state legislatures currecntly and/or in recent years:

South Carolina (2005-2006):
SC Senate Bill S.111 and SC House Bill H.3213
SC Senate bill: www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm
SC House bill: www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm
see also: www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net/RTL_Act.htm
and www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net

Georgia (2005):
Georgia House Bill HB 93
www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/search/hb93.htm

North Dakota (2005):
North Dakota House Bill No. 1227
www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-actions/ba1227.html

New Hampshire Right to Life Act (2003):
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2003/HB0193.html

Ohio (2005-2006):
Ohio House Bill 228
www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_228

see also: http://ohioabortionban.com/

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South Carolina 2004 Abortion Statistics:

Total reported child-murders-by-surgical-abortion in 2004: 6,565
(decrease of 8 abortions compared to 2003)

Abortions committed at Charleston abortion center: 2,835
(increase of 178 abortions compared to 2003)

Abortions committed at Greenville abortion center: 2,359
(decrease of 75 abortions compared to 2003)

Abortions committed at Columbia abortion center: 1,335
(decrease of 91 abortions compared to 2003)

Abortions committed in ‘hospitals’ statewide: 36
(decrease of 20 abortions compared to 2003)

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Feb. 2, 2006
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/

SC Senate Hearing on Right to Life Act of SC - Thurs., Feb 2

Senate Judiciary Subcommittee chaired by Sen. Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg)

State House grounds, Gressette Building, Room 308 A, 10:00 AM

CHRISTIANS - PLEASE PRAY !!!

Pray for passage of the Right to Life Act of SC (S.111/H.3213) without any amendments for "exceptions"

Pray for SC Senators:

Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg) (chair of Senate Judiciary Comm. Subcommittee)
Luke Rankin (R-Conway/Myrtle Beach)
Randy Scott (R-Summerville/Charleston)
Joel Lourie (D-Columbia)
Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston) (chair of the full Senate Judiciary Committee)
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Feb. 1, 2006
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net

Columbia, SC - Right to Life Act of SC - NEWS CONFERENCE and 'JESUS CHRIST is LORD of the GATES' Pro-Life Rally, Jan. 17

Columbia Christians for Life

P.O. Box 50358, Columbia, S.C. 29250 * (803) 765-0916 * http://www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net

“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."

Matthew 16:18

NEWS CONFERENCE AND ‘JESUS CHRIST is LORD of the GATES’ PRO-LIFE RALLY

Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 11:45 AM: First Floor, SC State House, Columbia, SC

Re: ‘Right to Life Act of South Carolina’ [S.111 / H.3213 ]

Statement by Steve Lefemine, dir. Columbia Christians for Life:

( to be posted at: www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net and www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net )

Good morning, my name is Steve Lefemine. I am director of Columbia Christians for Life. Our purpose in gathering today is to publicize the status of the Right to Life Act of SC, and to urge our SC Senate, which has a Republican majority, with 26 Republicans to 20 Democrats, to pass this bill without amendment, this 2006 legislative session. 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 law, and the RTL Act would inarguably, place all pre-birth human beings in the same protected status.

Jesus Christ is Lord of the Gates. ‘Gates’ are seats of power, or places of authority. The Bible says in Psalm 22 that the LORD is the Governor among the nations. The Declaration of Independence is our nation’s founding charter, setting forth the philosophy and principles upon which America was established, and it is to this day part of the organic law of the United States. The very first sentence states that America’s right to exist was based upon “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” One of the Laws of God upon which this nation was founded, is “Thou shalt not kill,” in the sense of murder. That immutable, eternal, universal, authoritative law of the Sovereign God, the Governor of all the Nations, can be found at Exodus 20:13. Fundamental to, and the first duty of civil government, including this SC Republican-majority Legislature, and this SC Republican Governor, is to prevent murder and bring to justice those who commit the crime. That is not happening today in our state. The Republican Governor and the Republican-majority SC Legislature are not doing their job. Between 1973 and 2004, over 310,000 pre-birth human beings have been murdered by surgical abortion alone on SC soil. This shed innocent blood pollutes the land, and invites the divine judgment of Almighty God upon SC.

A bit of history on the RTL Act: this bill was first introduced in the SC House and SC Senate in 1998. The Republicans have been the majority in control of the SC House consistently now for 12 years beginning in 1995. Republican leaders had opposed this 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. And in April 2005, seven years after the RTL Act was first introduced, and a decade after the Republicans became the majority in the House, the RTL Act was finally passed by the SC House. Sadly, even then, the Republican-majority SC House, with 74 Republicans to only 50 Democrats, agreed to a fatal flaw weakening amendment which undermines the whole legal strategy of the bill, by allowing an “exception” to legal personhood in the case of rape. The amended bill that was passed in April 2005 by the SC House now makes no sense in logic or law. With an exception to legal personhood, the RTL Act now once again violates God’s moral law in the Sixth Commandment; it is constitutionally unsound, and therefore legally indefensible; and is simply logically nonsensical. Either a human being is a “person” or they are not. What the SC House did was to make the RTL Act an abortion bill, recognizing the right to life of some pre-birth human beings, but protecting in law the murder of others, based upon the circumstances of their conception. This is outrageous and must be corrected now in the SC Senate, or the bill will be fatally flawed, and must be killed. The SC House is making the same mistake as in the Texas law challenged in what became the Roe v. Wade case 33 years ago, which also had an “exception,” thus undermining the attempt by the State of Texas to make the “personhood” argument in defense of their state law banning nearly all abortions. The result has been 45 million dead children by surgical abortion alone. We in SC must not make the same mistake today that Texas made over three decades ago. In the very text of the Roe v. Wade US supreme Court decision it states, “[Texas] argue[s] that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment… If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” In other words, there never would have been legalized abortion under Roe v. Wade.

But tragically, Texas had an “exception” which undermined their entire “personhood” argument. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: “[ Footnote 54 ] When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. Despite broad proscription, an exception always exists… But if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother's condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the Amendment's command? ...”

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113

The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 33 years ago. The issue of legal “personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlockingthe 33 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.

If you support banning the heinous crime of child-murder-by-abortion in South Carolina, then you are invited to start lobbying FIVE SC Senators who are important at this stage of the legislative process: Senators Ritchie, Scott, Rankin, Lourie, and McConnell. All five can vote on whether the RTL Act of SC is passed out of Senate Subcommittee without any amendments for “exceptions.” Four of these five senators are REPUBLICANS. Is the Republican Party really pro-life ? They are the party in power, holding the majority in both the SC House and SC Senate, and the SC Governor’s office as well. Now is the time for Republicans to put ACTIONS to their words, and PASS the Right to Life Act, without “exceptions.” For further information and updates, go to http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ or http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/. If you want to get started today lobbying these senators, please meet here in front of the podium at the end of this news conference and rally. Thank you.

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South Carolina 2004 Abortion Statistics:

Total reported child-murders-by-surgical-abortion in 2004: 6,565

(decrease of 8 abortions compared to 2003)

Abortions committed at Charleston abortion center: 2,835

(increase of 178 abortions compared to 2003)

Abortions committed at Greenville abortion center: 2,359

(decrease of 75 abortions compared to 2003)

Abortions committed at Columbia abortion center: 1,335

(decrease of 91 abortions compared to 2003)

Abortions committed in ‘hospitals’ statewide: 36

(decrease of 20 abortions compared to 2003)

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These are the five members (4 R’s, 1 D) of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee which presently has the bill none of these five men are yet co-sponsors of the Right to Life Act of SC (S.111):

Senator Jim Ritchie, chairman (R Spartanburg)

Senator Randy Scott (R Summerville)

Senator Luke Rankin (R Myrtle Beach)

Senator Joel Lourie (D Columbia)

Senator Glenn McConnell, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (R Charleston)

Contact info for SC Senators:

Ritchie (R), Scott (R), Rankin (R), Lourie (D) and McConnell (R):

NOTE: all Senators can be faxed at 803-212-6299 include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax !

Senator James H. "Jim" Ritchie, Jr. District 13 - Greenville, Spartanburg & Union Cos.

(H) 302 South Pine St., Spartanburg, 29302

Bus. (864)585-2275 Home (864)585-6047

E-Mail Address: JHR@scsenate.org

(C) 608 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202

Bus. (803) 212-6008/6032

Senator Randy Scott District 38 - Charleston & Dorchester Cos.

(H) 107 Cleveland St., Summerville, 29483

Bus. (843)873-5544 Home (843)871-2964

E-Mail Address: SCOTTR@scsenate.org

(C) 606 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202

Bus. (803) 212-6024

Senator Luke A. Rankin, Sr. District 33 - Horry Co.

(H) 201 Beaty St., Conway, 29526

Bus. (843)248-2405 Home (843)626-6269

E-Mail Address: LR@scsenate.org

(C) 508 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202

Bus. (803) 212-6132

Senator Joel Lourie District 22 - Kershaw & Richland Cos.

(H) P.O. Box 6212, Columbia, 29260

Bus.(803)765-9200 ext.257 Home(803)787-5802

E-Mail Addr: JBL@scsenate.org

(C) 504 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202

Bus. (803) 212-6116

Senator Glenn F. McConnell (Senate Judiciary Committee chairman) District 41 Charleston Co.

(H) 27 Bainbridge Dr., Charleston, 29407

Bus. (843)747-7554 Home (843)571-3921

E-Mail Address: SJU@scsenate.org

(C) 101 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202 Bus. (803) 212-6610

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SOUTH CAROLINA is one of FIVE states (in addition to OHIO, GEORGIA, NORTH DAKOTA, and NEW HAMPSHIRE) which have had active, principled, biblical, constitutional, ban-all-abortion bills (i.e., no "exceptions") state-level bills in their respective state legislatures currecntly and/or in recent years:

South Carolina (2005-2006):

SC Senate Bill S.111 and SC House Bill H.3213

SC Senate bill: www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm

SC House bill: www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm

see also: www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net/RTL_Act.htm and http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/

Georgia (2005):

Georgia House Bill HB 93

www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/search/hb93.htm

North Dakota (2005):

North Dakota House Bill No. 1227

www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/59-2005/bill-actions/ba1227.html

New Hampshire Right to Life Act (2003):

http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2003/HB0193.html

Ohio (2005-2006):

Ohio House Bill 228

www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=126_HB_228

see also: http://ohioabortionban.com/

Columbia, SC - Jan. 17, 2006 - News Conference and 'Jesus Christ is Lord of the Gates' Pro-Life Rally

Columbia Christians for Life

P.O. Box 50358, Columbia, S.C. 29250 (803) 765-0916

“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

Matthew 16:18

PRESS ADVISORY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, December 27, 2005

FOR FURTHER INFO:

Contact, Steve Lefemine, (803) 765-0916,

CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net ,

http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net

PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250

NEWS CONFERENCE

AND

‘JESUS CHRIST is LORD of the GATES’

PRO-LIFE RALLY

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

11:45 AM

First Floor, SC State House

Columbia Christians for Life is having a pro-life rally and news conference on January 17, 2006. January 22nd is the 33rd anniversary of the unconstitutional Roe vs. Wade decision that has resulted in the murder of over 45 million (www.ldi.org) pre-birth human beings (by surgical abortion alone) since 1973) at 11:45 AM inside our State House, on the first floor, right outside South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s office.

If you support banning the heinous crime of child-murder-by-abortion in South Carolina, then you are invited to come and please stand with us for the precious lives of our unborn children. We are seeking to make abortion illegal in South Carolina through passage of the “RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SOUTH CAROLINA” (H.3213/S.111). The SC Legislature comes back into session on January 10th.

The “Right to Life Act of South Carolina” was first introduced in the SC Legislature in 1998. It has been an active bill every year since, but not until April 2005 did it pass the SC House (H.3213) for the first time, albeit with a ‘fatal flaw’ rape “exception” amendment. Since the “Right to Life Act of SC”vests legal PERSONHOOD for ALL pre-birth human beings at fertilization (without “exceptions”), the rape “exception” amendment added on by the SC House makes no sense in logic or law, and must be removed in the SC Senate, or the bill must be killed as unbiblical (Exodus 20:13), unconstitutional, legally indefensible, and logically nonsensical ( see progress reports from 2005 legislative session at: www.christianlifeandliberty.net/RTL_Act.htm and www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net ).

Note: the “Right to Life Act of South Carolina” (H.3213/S.111) vests legal personhood for all pre-birth human beings at fertilization (without ‘exceptions’), and can be viewed at:
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm

Message sent June 14 to South Carolina State Senators...

delivered from the State House lobby to the 40 SC State Senators(20 Republicans and 20 Democrats) who are not yet co-sponsors of the Right to Life Act of SC (S.111):

Out of 46 SC State Senators, only six (all Republicans) are presently S.111 co-sponsors.

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South Carolina State Senators…

Over 300,000 pre-birth human beings have been murdered inside the wombs of their mothers between 1973 and 2004 by surgical abortion alone (not even counting by chemical abortion) within the borders of the state of South Carolina !!! (Numbers 35:33)

Are you willing to exercise your power and authority to Establish Justice for these children ?
(Romans 13:1-4; Amos 5:15)

Then please, in the Special Session beginning June 14, please sign on as a co-sponsor to the Right to Life Act of SC, S.111. The SC House passed an amended version April 13.

Three other states: Georgia, North Dakota, and Ohio also have principled, no ‘exceptions’ ban-abortion bills filed in their state legislatures.

Prepared by Columbia Christians for Life * PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250 *
(803) 765-0916

http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ * http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/ * CCFL@sc-online.net

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To see text of the Right to Life Act of SC, S.111, click on direct link from homepage ofwww.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net

For the most current publicized status of lobbying efforts to exhort SC Legislators to "Establish Justice" for pre-birth human beings, in law, beginning at fertilization, and without "exceptions," go to blog site http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/

Updated Flyer for Right to Life Act of South Carolina (H.3213/S.111) - June 8, 2005

TAKE ACTION TO PASS the "Right to Life Act of South Carolina"

Note: a properly formatted version of the Flyer below for distributing
as a hand-out to friends, family, and church goers can be printed
out from Attachment H3213-57 at the end of this e-mail, for
distribution Thursday through Monday (June 9 through June 13).

Now is the time for action !
1. Pray (if you are a born-again Christian)
2. Call
3. Inform others
4. E-mail
5. Write
6. Lobby
7. Donate

There are 46 total members in the full SC Senate (26 R's, 20 D's) -at present only six (Mike Fair, David Thomas, Larry Grooms, Danny Verdin, Kevin Bryant, and Wes Hayes) are signed on as co-sponsors of S.111.

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FLYER - see Attachment below for properly formatted version for use as
a one-page hand-out for distribution
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TAKE ACTION TO PASS

the

"Right to Life Act of South Carolina"

On May 18, a 4-man (3 R’s, 1 D) Subcomm. of the Senate Judiciary Comm. heard a second day of public testimony on the RTL Act of SC S.111 / H.3213 in the Gressette Bldg.; however no vote was taken, no further meetings were held, and the Legislature’s regular session ended June 2.

There are only six co-sponsors of S.111 in the SC Senate. The pro-life Senators are: Mike Fair, David Thomas, Larry Grooms, Danny Verdin, Kevin Bryant, and Wes Hayes. The SC Senate has 46 members: 26 Republicans and 20 Democrats.

The South Carolina Legislature is coming back to Columbia for a special two-day session on Tuesday, June 14 and Wednesday, June 15. This is another opportunity for the 40 Senators (20 Republicans and 20 Democrats) who are not yet co-sponsors of S.111 to sign on to the bill.

PLEASE CONTACT SC SENATORS AND ASK THEM TO SIGN ON AS CO-SPONSORS OF S.111 WHEN THEY COME BACK INTO SESSION ON TUESDAY, JUNE 13 (see contact information below)

These are the four members (3 R’s, 1 D) of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee which presently has the bill none of these four men are yet co-sponsors of the Right to Life Act of SC (S.111):

Senator Jim Ritchie, chairman (R Spartanburg)
Senator Randy Scott (R Summerville)
Senator Luke Rankin (R Myrtle Beach)
Senator Joel Lourie (D Columbia)

These are the other 19 of the total 23 members (13 R’s, 10 D’s) of the Senate Judiciary Committee which is the next step in the legislative process, if, Lord willing, the 4-man Subcommittee passes S.111/H.3213 out of committee favorably when they come back in regular session next January:

Senators: Glenn McConnell, chairman (R) - Charleston (can also vote as 5th man on subcomm. above) // Tom Moore (D) - Clearwater // Robert Ford (D) - Charleston // Greg Gregory (R) - Lancaster // Darrell Jackson (D) - Columbia // Larry Martin (R) -Pickens // Bill Mescher (R) - Pinopolis // Dick Elliott (D) - N. Myrtle Beach // Brad Hutto (D) - Orangeburg // Ralph Anderson (D) - Greenville // John Hawkins (R) -Spartanburg) // Jake Knotts (R) - West Columbia, Lexington // Gerald Malloy (D) -Hartsville // Ronnie Cromer (R) - Prosperity, Newberry // Vincent Sheheen (D) - Camden // Kevin Bryant (R) - Anderson) (the only S.111 co-sponsor on Judiciary Comm.) // Chip Campsen (R) - Isle of Palms // Ray Cleary (R) - Murrells Inlet // Kent Williams (D) - Marion //.

The remaining 23 members of the 46-member SC Senate include the five other pro-life Senators who are co-sponsors of S.111 (i.e., Mike Fair, David Thomas, Larry Grooms, Danny Verdin, and Wes Hayes), plus these last 18 Senators, none of whom are yet co-sponsors of the RTL Act of SC:

Senators: Thomas Alexander (R) - Walhalla (Oconee) // John Courson (R) - Columbia // John Drummond (D) - Ninety Six (Greenwood) // John Land (D) - Manning // Hugh Leatherman (R) - Florence // Phil Leventis (D) - Sumter // John Matthews (D) - Bowman // Yancey McGill (D) Kingstree // Billy O'Dell (R) - Anderson // Kay Patterson (D) - Columbia // Harvey Peeler (R) - Gaffney // Clementa Pinckney (D) - Ridgeland // Glenn Reese (D) - Inman // Scott Richardson (R) - Hilton Head Island // Greg Ryberg (R) - Aiken // Nikki Setzler (D) - West Columbia (Lexington) // Linda Short (D) - Chester // Verne Smith (R) - Greer //.

Please call / write / e-mail / and/or fax any or all of the 40 Senators above who are not co-sponsors of S.111 NLT COB Monday, June 13, and ask them to sign on during the upcoming 2-day session !

If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, would you please pray God would turn the hearts of these 40 SC Senators to DO JUSTICE for pre-birth human beings and sign on as co-sponsors of S.111 ?

The "Right to Life Act of South Carolina", if passed by the Republican-majority SC Legislature, and if signed by Republican SC Governor Mark Sanford, would recognize the God-given, legal ‘personhood’ of all pre-birth human beings at fertilization under the SC State Constitution.

See link to bill at www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net


Contact info for SC Senators:
NOTE: all Senators can be faxed at 803-212-6299 include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax !

If you need the name, addresses, e-mail, or telephone numbers of your SC State Senator, go to: www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/senate2.html

SENATE MAILING ADDRESS: write all Senators at:
Post Office Box 142, Columbia, S.C. 29202

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Prepared by Columbia Christians for Life * www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net * (803) 765-0916 * Columbia, SC
Note: For add’l resources that may be useful in lobbying these State Senators, go to www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net and click on “RTL Act of SC.” There you will find several items germaine to your lobbying effort, which may be printed out and mailed or faxed; or, e-mailed, to these Senators (check out items # 5 thru # 12, #15, and #16).

Request sent to SC Senators before end of regular session June 2:

[ Note: S.111, the Right to Life Act of South Carolina, has only six co-sponsors, out of 46 SC State Senators (26 Republicans and 20 Democrats). The six pro-life Senators in the SC Senate are Senators Mike Fair, David Thomas, Larry Grooms, Danny Verdin, Kevin Bryant, and Wes Hayes. ]


Sent by memo from the Second Floor State House lobby to the Senate chamber:

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THE SENATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

"Please sign on as a co-sponsor of S.111, the RTL Act of SC before sine die on June 2d."


DATE: 6/1/05
TIME:
TO: Senator __________ (Senator Jim Ritchie (R) - Spartanburg)
(Senator Randy Scott (R) - Summerville)
(Senator Luke Rankin (R) - Myrtle Beach)
(Senator Joel Lourie (D) - Columbia)
(Senator Glenn McConnell (R) - Charleston)

FROM: Steve Lefemine, Columbia Christians for Life
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/

MESSAGE: Will God Bless or Curse S.C. over the next several months?

1) Three other states also have principled "no exceptions" ban-abortion bills in their state legislatures. You men have the opportunity before you of making history for good by passing the RTL Act of SC, & helping SC lead the nation in ending this 32+ year national tragedy + disgrace of "legalized" abortion.
2) Or, as the 2005 hurricane season begins today, & and The State reported $ 110 million in damage to SC in 2004, how will God deal with us in 2005 ?

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Attachments to the lobbying memo above included:

- Four states having active no 'exceptions' bills during 2005 legislative session [ NORTH DAKOTA, GEORGIA, OHIO, and SOUTH CAROLINA ]
(Please use this link for Attachment H3213-483.doc: www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-48.doc )

- Six tropical systems had an impact on South Carolina in 2004 / 2005 Season Prediction & names for tropical systems in upcoming season

(Please use these links for news articles used for the attachment H3213.563.doc: www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/11784317.htm
www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/11784233.htm
www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/11784236.htm)

with these Scriptures hand-written in the margin:

Psalm 147: 8,16-18 "... He causeth His wind to blow, and the waters flow."
Jeremiah 51: 14-16 "The LORD of hosts... He hath made the earth by His power, ... When He uttereth His voice, there is a multitude (tumult) of waters in the heavens;... He maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures."
also:
1 Samuel 12: 16-19
Luke 8: 22-25

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On June 2, virtually the same memo was sent to the rest of the 40 SC State Senators - 20 Republicans and 20 Democrats - who have not yet signed on as co-sponsors of S.111, the RTL Act of SC, namely, these 35 SC State Senators:

Senator Thomas Alexander (R) - Walhalla (Oconee)
Senator Ralph Anderson (D) - Greenville
Senator Chip Campsen (R) - Isle of Palms
Senator Ray Cleary (R) - Murrells Inlet
Senator John Courson (R) - Columbia
Senator Ronnie Cromer (R) - Prosperity (Newberry)
Senator John Drummond (D) - Ninety Six (Greenwood)
Senator Dick Elliott (D) - N. Myrtle Beach
Senator Robert Ford (D) - Charleston
Senator Greg Gregory (R) - Lancaster
Senator John Hawkins (R) - Spartanburg
Senator Brad Hutto (D) - Orangeburg
Senator Darrell Jackson (D) - Hopkins (Richland)
Senator Jake Knotts (R) - West Columbia (Lexington)
Senator John Land (D) - Manning
Senator Hugh Leatherman (R) - Florence
Senator Phil Leventis (D) - Sumter
Senator Gerald Malloy (D) - Hartsville
Senator Larry Martin (R) - Pickens
Senator John Matthews (D) - Bowman
Senator Yancey McGill (D) - Kingstree
Senator Bill Mescher (R) - Pinopolis
Senator Tom Moore (D) - Clearwater
Senator Billy O'Dell (R) - Anderson
Senator Kay Patterson (D) - Columbia
Senator Harvey Peeler (R) - Gaffney
Senator Clementa Pinckney (D) - Ridgeland
Senator Glenn Reese (D) - Inman
Senator Scott Richardson (R) - Hilton Head Island
Senator Greg Ryberg (R) - Aiken
Senator Nikki Setzler (D) - West Columbia (Lexington)
Senator Vincent Sheheen (D) - Camden
Senator Linda Short (D) - Chester
Senator Verne Smith (R) - Greer
Senator Kent Williams (D) - Marion

If you need the name, addresses, e-mail, or telephone numbers of your SC State Senator, go to:

www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/senatebios.html
www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/senate2.html

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Most of the memos also had attached the Missionaries to the Preborn brochure entitled:
"Planned Parenthood admits that abortion is the killing of a baby!"

NOTE: Not one additional Senate co-sponsor to S.111 was added to the bill after asking 40 Senators (20 Republicans and 20 Democrats) to sign on to the RTL Act of SC.

(See link from homepage of www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net to S.111)

Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
CCL lobbyistColumbia, SC
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
June 7, 2005

"Jesus is Pro-Life news conference / pro-life rally - SC State House, Columbia

Columbia Christians for Life & Voice of the Unborn held a joint end-of-session pro-life rally and news conference on May 26 to praise, bless, and glorify God for what He has done with the Right to Life Act of South Carolina (H.3213/S.111) andthe Unborn Children's Monument memorial (H.3338) in 2005.

The event was held inside the SC State House in the first floor lobby between the SC Governor's and Lt. Governor's offices. Two media outlets were present at the news conference (SC Radio Network and WSPA-TV7), and just over 15 supporters in attendance.

There were four speakers who made statements:

1. Mr. Charles Butler, pastor, Souls Afire Baptist Church, Orangeburg
2. Mr. Jim Schirmer, pastor, Heritage Presbyterian Church
3. Johnny Gardner, Voice of the Unborn
4. Steve Lefemine, Columbia Christians for Life

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CCL note: There are references to three pieces of SC state legislation (H.3213, S.111and H.3338) and two pieces of federal legislation (HR 552 and HR 3313) in the news conference statement below made by Steve Lefemine. The on-line URL's for each of these five bills is given at the end of this e-mail for those who wish to see the actual bills, or look at who the co-sponsors are (or were, in the case of HR 3313 from 2004), or to see the legislative progress of each bill, etc.

CCL note: The text of the infamous Roe vs. Wade decision may also be seen at the URL given at the end of this e-mail.
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Columbia Christians for Life
P.O. Box 50358, Columbia, S.C. 29250
* (803) 765-0916 *

www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net

“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Matthew 16:18

“JESUS IS PRO-LIFE” NEWS CONFERENCE AND PRO-LIFE RALLY

Thursday, May 26, 2005, 10:45 PM:

First Floor, SC State House, Columbia, SC

Statement by Steve Lefemine, dir. Columbia Christians for Life:

Good morning, my name is Steve Lefemine. I am director of Columbia Christians for Life. Our purpose in gathering today is to praise and glorify the Lord Jesus Christ, to remember the works of the Lord this 2005 legislative session, which ends next week, and to bless His Name. God wants us to remember His mighty works, and to teach them to succeeding generations: Ps. 78 says, [read Psalm 78:5-8]. As I begin, let me say that both the Right to Life Act of SC and the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial are active bills at this time, and we expect that both will be carried over to the January 2006 legislative session. Though neither bill has yet passed into law, as believers in the Sovereign Lordship of King Jesus, “we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7). We believe that while duty belongs to us, it is God Who gives the increase (1 Cor. 3:6). To Him be the glory !

One day, child-murder by abortion will be ended in SC. I know this because Jesus said, “I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (Matt. 16:18) Over 300,000 pre-birth human beings have been destroyed in their mothers’ wombs by surgical abortion alone in SC since the abominable, unconstitutional, Roe vs. Wade opinion in 1973. Many times more than that number have likely been killed by chemical abortion; by Depo-Provera, by birth control pills, etc. Yet since surgical abortions in SC peaked in 1988 at over 14,000, the # has dropped by over 50% to less than 7,000 in 2003. The # of major abortion centers in SC has dropped from 12 in 1988 to 3 today, a decrease of 75%. One day, every abortion mill in SC will be history. And by the way, Roe vs. Wade is not the Law of the Land according to Art. VI. of the U.S. Constitution. Furthermore, the U.S. Congress and the President have the power to end abortion in the United States in one week’s time by passing HR 552, the RTL Act in the U.S. House, with the same Article III., Section 2. prohibition of federal court jurisdiction that the U.S. House passed last year in HR 3313, the Marriage Protection Act.

To recap what the Lord has done with the RTL Act of SC in 2005 it has been a historic year: for the first time the bill passed the House Judiciary Comm. and the full SC House. Unfortunately, an amendment for a morning-after pill rape ‘Exception’ was added on the House floor, which fatally flaws the bill. I will speak more on that later. After passing the House, H.3213 went to a Senate Subcomm. of the Judiciary Comm., which has now held two public hearings on the bill, but has not yet taken a vote. This Subcommittee also has S.111 in its original, unamended form, under consideration.

By way of remembrance, let me briefly re-cap the history of how the Lord has progressed this bill over the last 8-years. The bill was conceived in 1997, and first filed in Feb 1998. It did not get a public hearing until April 2001, when it was defeated by a vote of 4 to 1 in a House Subcomm. with three Republicans. The only legislator to vote for the bill in 2001 was a Democrat from the black caucus. The next hearing did not come until April 2004. The bill passed the same House Subcomm. this time with some new members, by a vote of 2 to 0, with one abstention. The next week the bill was defeated in the Republican-controlled House Judiciary Comm. by what I maintain to this day was a fraudulent voice vote, because we spoke to numerous members afterwards, and if they voted as they claimed, the bill should have passed. Instead it was defeated. Nevertheless, in 2005, we started over again. This year the bill (H.3213) passed the same House Subcomm. again, this time by a 3 to 0 vote, with one abstention. The day before, the S.C. Attorney General, Henry McMaster, had issued an Opinion on the constitutionality of H.3213 the Opinion asserted the bill was “constitutional on its face” but if applied to abortion, would run into the matter of adjudication in the courts. The next week the bill passed the full House Judiciary Comm. for the first time, by a 15 to 5 vote, and was on its way to Second Reading on the floor of the full 124-member SC House, with 74 Republicans and 50 Democrats. Before the vote on Second Reading, the number of co-sponsors continued to increase, until there were 52 co-sponsors signed-on to the bill, 47 Republicans and 5 Democrats. On April 13th, the RTL Act of SC passed the SC House on Second Reading by a vote of 95 to 18, but not before a ‘fatal flaw’ rape ‘Exception’ Amendment was proposed by a Democrat, and accepted by the manager of the floor debate for the Republicans. This ‘Exception’ to fetal personhood undermines the whole legal “personhood” concept of this bill, just as a “life-of-the-mother” ‘Exception’ undermined the Texas law challenged in the Roe case over 30 years ago. The text of the Roe decision says explicitly, “If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion argument], of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” However, Justice Blackmun also said in a footnote to Roe, “… if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother’s condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the [14th] Amendment’s command ?… “ In other words, if fetal personhood is established, as the RTL Act of SC is intended to do, Roe collapses. However, if there are any ‘Exceptions’ to fetal personhood, then the “personhood” argument collapses, and Roe stands. The ‘fatal flaw’ amendment added by the House must be removed in the SC Senate before it goes back to the House, or the bill must be killed.

As I said earlier, this amended bill passed by the House has now been passed to the Senate, and resides in a 4-man Senate Subcommittee, with three Republicans, including the chairman, and one Democrat. The Senate version of the bill (S.111) remains unamended, but has only six co-sponsors at present, and none of these 4 Senate Subcommittee members are among the six. Much work remains if this bill is to make it through the Senate. However, let this verview of the 8-year history of this bill not only work to build your faith in God’s overruling, prevailing Sovereignty, but let it give you a sense of having a long-term view and vision for the advance of Christ’s kingdom. The Bible says, “Where there is no vision, the people perish:…” (Proverb 29:18). God says in Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:…” Did you know that Article VI. of the U.S. Constitution does not include Opinions of the U.S. supreme Court in its list of the three things which are identified in the text as the “supreme Law of the Land?” Check out the literature and hand-outs on the card table here on the side if you would like to learn more. Did you know that the U.S. Constitution, in Art. III., Sec. 2., gives Congress the authority to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the U.S. supreme Court; and that Congress has the power to even eliminate all the other lower federal district and appellate courts, because Congress established them to begin with, and can certainly define their jurisdictions ? Remember, Congress and the President have the power, now, as they have had for the last 32 years, to end abortion in America in one week’s time. Please don’t believe the lie that we have to wait for the nine men and women in black robes to figure out the obvious, as any 3 or 4 year old can tell you, that the child in the womb is a “baby.”

In conclusion, remember the decades-long battle of an evangelical Christian from England against a different crime against humanity, waged in a different era. William Wilberforce was a member of the British Parliament from 1780 to 1825. He first fought the British Empire’s slave trade, which was outlawed by 1808, after he had worked against it for over 20 years, and then he worked for the abolition of slavery itself. He died in July 1833, and the Emancipation Bill, abolishing slavery in the British Empire, was passed a month after he died, in August. Today, the intercontinental slave trade is on the ash-heap of history and so it will be with child-murder by so-called “legalized” abortion. This outrageous atrocity against God’s little image bearers in the wombs of their mothers will come to an end one day. May the Lord be pleased to hasten that day ! Hallelu-Yah ! Praise the Lord !

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Prepared by Columbia Christians for Life * http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/ * (803) 765-0916 * Columbia, SC

Note:
For add’l resources that may be useful in lobbying SC State Senators, go to http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, and click on “RTL Act of SC.” There you will find some items germaine to your lobbying effort, which may be printed out and mailed or faxed; or, e-mailed, to these Senators.

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If you wish to contribute to Columbia Christians for Life, go to http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ and click on "Support" for further information (contributions are not tax deductible)

See the three SC state bills (H.3213, S.111, and H.3338) referred to inthe statement above, on-line at the following URL's:

H.3213 - Right to Life Act of SC (filed in SC House)www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm

S.111 - Right to Life Act of SC (filed in SC Senate)www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm

H.3338 - Unborn Children's Monument memorialwww.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3338.htm

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See the two U.S. House (federal) bills (HR 552 and HR 3313) referred to in the statement above, on-line at the following URL's:

HR 552 - the Right to Life Act (introduced 2/2/2005 in 109th Congress)48 co-sponsors (out of 435 members of Congress) http://thomas.loc.gov/

Enter Bill Number: HR 552 (click on 'Search') HR 3313 - the Marriage Protection Act of 2004 (from the 108th Congress in 2004) http://thomas.loc.gov/

• Under "LEGISLATION," click on "Search Bills and Resolutions"
• Under "Select Congress," click on "108th (2003-2004)
• In the "Enter Search:" block, enter HR 3313- click on "Search"

This bill should have been passed last year in 2004 by Congress. This bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives on July 22, 2004, by a vote of 233 to 194; however the U.S. Senate did nothing with this historic marriage-protecting legislation, which would have prevented the U.S. supreme Court from having appellate jurisdiction, or the lower federal courts from having any jurisdiction to decide cases concerning the (1996) Defense of Marriage Act - this bill (HR 3313) to protect marriage could have been passed by a simple majority in the U.S. Senate. Instead, we are subjected to the endless charade by the Republicans in Congress and the Republican President, of their purported plansto work for the passage of an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to protect marriage,a much higher legislative hurdle, which requires a 2/3 vote in both the U.S. House and U.S. Senate (instead of a simple majority vote like with HR 3313, the M.P.A. of 2004) and which also then requires 3/4 of the state legislatures to approve. The Republicansare failing to protect marriage, just as they have failed to end abortion, or protect statelaws criminalizing sodomy from being overturned by a runaway federal judiciary, whenCongress and the President have the power now to curtail and restrict the jurisdiction of the federal courts !!! [see Article III. Section 2. of the U.S. Constitution]

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See the text of the Roe vs. Wade decision itself at:

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113

NEWS CONFERENCE AND 'JESUS IS PRO-LIFE' VICTORY RALLY - Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 10:45 AM

First Floor, SC State House, Columbia
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Columbia Christians for Life & VOICE OF THE UNBORN

“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Matthew 16:18

“Lo: children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. ”
Psalm 127:3


PRESS ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Monday, May 23, 2005

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Contact: Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life, ph. (803) 765-0916 / CCFL@sc-online.net

Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn, ph. (803) 731-0062

NEWS CONFERENCE

AND

‘JESUS IS PRO-LIFE’

VICTORY RALLY

Thursday, May 26, 2005

10:45 AM

First Floor, SC State House

End of ’05 Legislative session report on what God has done vis-à-vis:

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 pro-life rally and news conference on May 26, 2005 (next-to-last week of regular 2005 Legislative session) to praise, bless, and glorify God for what He has done with the Right to Life Act of South Carolina and the Unborn Children’s Monument memorial in 2005 at 10:45 AM inside our State House, on the first floor, right outside the Governor’s office.

Though neither bill has passed into law yet, as Christians, as believers in the Sovereign Lordship and Kingship of the Lord Jesus Christ, “we walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7), and we believe that while duty belongs to us, it is God who gives the increase (1 Cor. 3:6). To Him be the glory ! In whatever trials and battles we are engaged, nevertheless, “in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us (Romans 8:35-37).

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 RTL Act of SC; and to memorialize and repent for the loss of over 300,000 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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Report on Public Hearing for the RTL Act of SC - Wed., May 18, 2005

Room 207, Gressette Bldg., conducted approx. 10:15 - 11:45 AM State House grounds, Columbia, SC

We give all praise and glory to the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ forthe continued deliberations on the Right to Life of SC. Although a vote was not taken today in the subcommittee to pass the bill favorably out of the subcommittee and on to the full Senate Judiciary Committee; neither was the bill killed. A vote remains to be taken. The Right to Life Act of SC is still alive.

The Subcommittee chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg) of the Senate Judiciary Committee conducted a second Public Hearing during which testimony was heard primarily (almost exclusively) on the subject of the Right to Life Act of SC (H.3213/S.111). Of the nine speakers who spoke during the approx. one and one-half hours of testimony, all except for two spoke in favor of passage of the Right to Life Act of SC. The two who did not speak in support of the RTL Act of SC were: 1) a law professor from the partially tax-funded University of South Carolina, and someone from the A.C.L.U. - these two spoke of legal problems that would arise if the Right to Life Act of SC were passed into law.

At the end of the 90 minutes of intense testimony, chairman Senator Ritchie explained the need of the subcommittee to digest the information conveyed to them, and further assess the impact of the Right to Life Act, and also, unfortunately, another bill, S.479 (the Unborn Victim's Act), which while it does recognize fetal personhood in several limited areas of state law, it also disgracefully and abominably statutorily recognizes the so-called "mother's right to privacy, to a lawful medical procedure performed by aphysician..." [read 'abortion']. This is not a pro-life bill. It is advocated by South Carolina Citizens for Life (SC state chapter of National Right to Life).

As of the end of the subcommittee meeting, Senator Ritchie did not know whether, with just about two weeks left in the 2005 legislative session (it ends Thursday, June 2, two weeks from tomorrow), whether or not his subcommittee would actually vote on the Right to Life Act of SC by that end of session date or not.

Speakers in favor of passage of the Right to Life Act were:

1. Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn, Columbia
2. Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life, Columbia
3. Kim _____, post-abortion, personal testimony, Columbia area
4. Gerald Nagy, missionary-support computer services ministry, West Columbia
5. Mr. Bob Slimp, Presbyterian minister, Reserve Army chaplain (LTC), Columbia
6. Chris _____, mother of post-abortive daughter, personal testimony, Columbia area
7. Mr. Charles Butler, pastor, Souls Afire Baptist Church, Orangeburg

Much excellent testimony was given, to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, by the pro-life/anti-abortion speakers. Much Scripture was spoken, and several important subjects were covered, including the God-ordained accountability of those in civil government to God, and issues of law, biology, and as mentioned above, personal testimonies.

To order the CD of the proceedings, contact Mr. Phil Lenski, staff attorneyfor the Senate Judiciary Committee, at (803) 212-6617. The cost is $5.00.

In addition to chairman Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg), there were two other senators present of the 4-man subcommittee:

Senator Randy Scott (R-Summerville)
Senator Joel Louris (D-Columbia)

absent (chairing another subcommitee) was Senator Luke Rankin (R-Horry Co.)

Senator Ritchie and Senator Scott are generally favorable to the bill, however neither is presently a co-sponsor of S.111, and it seems that it would be beneficial for both of them to continue to hear from the public encouraging them to support the RTL Act of SC without the 'fatal flaw' rape EXCEPTION amendment that was added in the SC House. One step of progress that seems to have been made waswhen Senator Ritchie expressed after today's subcommittee hearing his understanding, essentially, how there can't be any 'exceptions' to personhood - either we vest personhood or we don't. This is important so that we do not make the same mistake that the State of Texas made over 30 years ago in the Roe case with a 'life-of-the-mother' exception that undermined the fetal 'personhood' case that Texas tried to make, but failed to, in part, because of an 'exception' to fetal personhood in law. Please pray for Senator Ritchie (and all these senators) that they will fear God and not man, and do what is their God-ordained duty, to 'establish justice' in the 'gate.'

Senator Joel Lourie (D-Columbia) appears to be generally against the bill. It is unknown what the position of Senator Luke Rankin (R-Horry County) is at present.

The bottom line is that all four senators need further encouragement to either:

a) vote for the bill, or
b) if they are against the bill, as Senator Lourie of Columbia appears most likely to be, that they be encouraged to abstain from voting against the bill.
c) ask each one of them to sign on as a co-sponsor of S.111

Furthermore, apparently SC Senate rules allow the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman (Senator Glenn McConnell, R-Charleston) to also potentially have a vote, in the subcommittee. So it may be helpful for pro-life people to contact Senator McConnell as well. Ask Senator McConnell to support passage of the RTL Act of SC in its original (unamended) form, and ask him if he will sign on as a co-sponsor of the Right to Life Act (tell him that the Speaker of the SC House, the Speaker Pro Tempore of the SC House, and the House Majority Leader all signed on as co-sponsors to the House version before Second Reading).

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Beyond these five men associated with Senator Ritchie's subcommittee (Senators Jim Ritchie, Luke Rankin, Randy Scott, Joel Lourie, and Judiciary Comm. chairman Glenn McConnell), it would also be helpful to begin making contact with some members of the 23-man Senate Judiciary Committee:

Please consider contacting these selected Judiciary Committee members below to:

a) sign onto bill S.111 as a co-sponsor themselves, and
b) ask them to urge the 5 men above on Senator Ritchie's subcommittee to pass the bill out favorably before the end of the legislative session inthe next two weeks:

Senator Greg Gregory (R-Lancaster and York Counties)
Senator Larry Martin (R-Pickens County)
Senator Bill Mescher (R-Berkeley County)
Senator John Hawkins (R-Spartanburg County)
Senator Jake Knotts (R-Lexington County)
Senator Ronnie Cromer (R-Lexington, Newberry, & Saluda Counties)
Senator Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson County) [already a co-sponsor of S.111]
Senator Chip Campsen (R-Berkeley & Charleston Counties)
Senator Ray Cleary (R-Charleston, Georgetown, & Horry Counties)
Senator Kent Williams (D-Dillon, Florence, Marion & Marlboro Counties)

In addition to these 10 men, of course, are added the names of the 4 members of Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee (Ritchie, Rankin, Scott, & Lourie), and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), for a totalof 15 members of the (23-man) Judiciary Committee that should begin to be contacted.

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Also please consider contacting these six state senators below who are already co-sponsors of S.111, to lobby the members of Senator Ritchie's Subcommittee and the other Judiciary Committee members above: [see link to S.111 from www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net]

Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville)
Senator David Thomas (R-Greenville)
Senator Larry Grooms (R-Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton & Dorchester Counties)
Senator Danny Verdin (R-Greenville & Laurens Counties)
Senator Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) [Senator Bryant is on the Judiciary Committee]
Senator Wes Hayes (R-York Co.)

Please ask the six senators above who are already co-sponsors of S.111 to urge the Judiciary Committee members above to:
a) sign onto bill S.111 as a co-sponsor themselves, and
b) ask them to urge the 5 men above on Senator Ritchie's subcommittee to pass the bill out favorably before the end of the legislative session inthe next two weeks.

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Lastly, please consider contacting YOUR OWN STATE SENATOR:
to sign on to Senate bill S.111 themselves, and to urge the Judiciary Committee members above to:

a) sign onto bill S.111 as a co-sponsor themselves, and
b) ask them to urge the 5 men above on Senator Ritchie's subcommittee to pass the bill out favorably before the end of the legislative session in the next two weeks:

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Below you will find the detailed contact information for Senator Ricthie's Subcommittee and Senator Glenn McConnell (phone numbers / e-mail addresses / mail addresses).

NOTE: all of the SC Senators can be faxed at 803-212-6299 - be sure to include the Senator’s name on whatever you fax since this is a fax machine in common use to all 46 SC state senators.

If you need the name, address, e-mail, or telephone number of your SC State Senator, go to:

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

www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/senate2.html

SENATE MAILING ADDRESS:

You may also write any Member of the Senate at:
Post Office Box 142, Columbia, S.C. 29202-0142

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Contact info for SC Senators:
Glenn McConnell (R) and
Jim Ritchie (R), Randy Scott (R),
Luke Rankin (R), & Joel Lourie (D):

President Pro Tempore Glenn F. McConnell
District 41 - Charleston Co.
Contact Addresses: E-Mail Address: SJU@scsenate.org

(H) 27 Bainbridge Dr., Charleston, 29407
Bus. (843) 747-7554 Home (843) 571-3921
(C) 101 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6610

Senator James H. "Jim" Ritchie, Jr.
District 13 - Greenville, Spartanburg & Union Cos.
Contact Addresses: E-Mail Address: JHR@scsenate.org

(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

Senator Randy Scott
District 38 - Charleston & Dorchester Cos.
Contact Addresses: E-Mail Address: SCOTTR@scsenate.org

(H) 107 Cleveland St., Summerville, 29483
Bus. (843) 873-5544 Home (843) 871-2964
(C) 606 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6024

Senator Luke A. Rankin, Sr.
District 33 - Horry Co.
Contact Addresses: E-Mail Address: LR@scsenate.org

(H) 201 Beaty St., Conway, 29526
Bus. (843) 248-2405 Home (843) 626-6269
(C) 508 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6132

Senator Joel Lourie
District 22 - Kershaw & Richland Cos.
Contact Addresses: E-Mail Address: JBL@scsenate.org

(H) P.O. Box 6212, Columbia, 29260
Bus. (803) 765-9200 ext.257 Home (803) 787-5802
(C) 504 Gressette Bldg., Columbia, 29202
Bus. (803) 212-6116

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Prepared by Columbia Christians for Life * http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/ * (803) 765-0916 * Columbia, SC

Thank you for your interest in passing principled pro-life/anti-abortion, no ''EXCEPTIONS'state-level legislation in South Carolina. If you are from out of state and would like to help, your e-mails, faxes, letters and phone calls are welcome. If South Carolina, Lord willing,passes principled pro-life legislation, perhaps that would be helpful to other states to do likewise. Already this legislative year, three other states have had principled pro-life, no 'EXCEPTIONS' bills filed in their state legislatures:
GEORGIA, NORTH DAKOTA, and OHIO.

Note: For add’l resources that may be useful in lobbying these State Senators, go to
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net, and click on “RTL Act of SC.” There you will find someitems germaine to your lobbying effort, which may be printed out and mailed or faxed; or, e-mailed, to these Senators.

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If you wish to contribute to Columbia Christians for Life, go to http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ and click on "Support" for further information (contributions are not tax deductible)