Link to audio to be posted at "RTL Act of SC" page of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ :
WQXL-1470 AM Radio Commercial - Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill (1:00 - audio link)
To begin airing Monday, April 14, 2008
The Right to Life Act of SC (H.3284/H.3697/S.313) has been active in the SC Legislature since Feb. 1998. The bill has previously passed the SC House Constitutional Laws Subcommittee (March 31, 2005), and has previously passed the House Judiciary Committee (April 5, 2005). The bill passed the full SC House on April 13, 2005 (Second Reading), albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment. The bill then died in the SC Senate.
The Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill was re-introduced in the SC House and SC Senate in 2007.
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/313.htm
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm
Because of the interference and distraction of the incrementalist, abortion-regulation "Ultrasound" bill ("look at an ultrasound image, if you want to, and then you can kill the baby"), Constitutional Laws Subcommittee Chairman Greg Delleney (R-Chester) did not grant a public hearing for the Right to Life Act of SC in the 2007 Session:
SC RTL Act delayed by House Republican leader for Ultrasound Bill in 2007 Session
Republican Chairman of the House Constitutional Laws Subcommittee, Rep. Greg Delleney (R-Chester) has decided not to hold a public hearing on the RTL Act of SC (H.3284) until action is complete in the SC General Assembly on the Ultrasound bill (H.3355). The 2007 regular session ends June 7. Once action is complete on the Ultrasound bill, Rep. Delleney has stated he will then sign on as a co-sponsor of the Right to Life Act of SC, and grant us a public hearing.
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3284-08-1a-action1.doc
Finally, on February 14, 2008, Rep. Delleney held a public hearing for the Right to Life Act of SC, at which the SC Attorney General, Henry McMaster, stood by his 2005 Legal Opinion that the bill was constitutional; however no vote was taken on the bill.
Public Hearing Statement in support of Right to Life Act of SC - Columbia, SC - Feb. 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/public-hearing-statement-in-support-of.html
Now it appears that Republicans Delleney (ConLaws Subcomm. chairman) and Harrison (Judiciary Comm. chairman) may be intending to take no further action on the Right to Life Act of SC in 2008.
"Personhood" Bill in SC - Call on Republicans Delleney and Harrison to pass out of Committee
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/04/personhood-bill-in-sc-call-on.html
However, the regular Legislative Session does not end until June 5, so please call 803-734-3120, the House Judiciary Committee office, and request that Republican Representatives Greg Delleney and Jim Harrison pass the Right to Life Act of SC out of their respective committees immediately.
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"Personhood" Bill Commercial
(to be aired on WQXL Christian 1470 AM, Columbia, SC, beginning April 14, 2008)
I'M STEVE LEFEMINE FOR COLUMBIA CHRISTIANS FOR LIFE. FOR 10 YEARS WE'VE
WORKED TO PASS THE RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SC TO END ABORTION IN OUR STATE, BY
RECOGNIZING UNBORN HUMANS AS LEGAL "PERSONS" BEGINNING AT FERTILIZATION,
WITH NO EXCEPTIONS. THE "PERSONHOOD" BILL PASSED THE SC HOUSE, FLAWED WITH
AN EXCEPTION, THEN DIED IN THE SENATE, IN 2005. THE ROE V. WADE DECISION
STATED: IF LEGAL PERSONHOOD IS VESTED AT FERTILIZATION, THE RIGHT TO LIFE OF
THE UNBORN WOULD BE PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTION. ON FEB. 14, 2008, THE SC
ATTORNEY GENERAL TESTIFIED AT A PUBLIC HEARING THE BILL IS CONSTITUTIONAL,
HOWEVER THE CURRENT HOUSE BILL HAS NOT BEEN PASSED OUT OF COMMITTEE.
PLEASE HELP BY CALLING REPRESENTATIVES GREG DELLENEY AND JIM HARRSION TO
PASS THE "PERSONHOOD" BILL. PHONE THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE AT 734-3120.
ASK THAT DELLENEY AND HARRISON PASS THE "PERSONHOOD" BILL OUT OF COMMITTEE
NOW.
CALL 734-3120 TODAY.
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Note, if outside the Columbia, SC calling area, use Area Code (803): 803-734-3120
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2005 Session:
'Take Action to Pass the RTL Act of SC' - April 1, 2005
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-201.doc
'Take Action to Pass the RTL Act of SC' - April 7, 2005
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-252.doc
'South Carolina House Passes Personhood Bill' (with fatal flaw) - April 15, 2005
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-311.doc
Legal Opinion (2005) of South Carolina Attorney General on the Right to Life Act of SC
"Accordingly, it is our opinion that the Right to Life Act is constitutional."
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/Westlaw_Document_15_03_35_5392471.doc
2006 Session:
Republican State Senators choose not to pass Right to Life Act of SC
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-118.doc
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.
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-129.doc
REPUBLICANS IN S.C. SENATE PROLONG CHILD-KILLING:
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC House (74 R's to 50 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina are the majority in the SC Senate (26 R's to 20 D's).
The Republicans in South Carolina occupy the Governor's office, the Lt. Governor's office,
and the Attorney General's office.
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-126.doc
Opinion Editorial - Right to Life Act of South Carolina [S.111 / H.3213] - May 16, 2006
Republican State Senators refuse to pass South Carolina's pro-life bill to end "legalized" abortion
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-135.doc
SC's Republican-majority State Senate kills the SC baby-killing ban bill
South Carolina's pro-life bill to end "legalized" abortion (House bill H.3213 / Senate bill S.111)
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-152.doc
2007 Session:
Fetal 'Personhood' denied by Republican-majority SC Legislature in 2007 (2008 ?)
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3284-H3273-S313-01.doc
2008 Session:
"Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill - Public Hearing, February 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/right-to-life-act-of-sc-personhood-bill.html
Public Hearing Statement in support of Right to Life Act of SC - Columbia, SC - Feb. 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/public-hearing-statement-in-support-of.html
2007-2008 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- AL, CO, GA, MT, SC, VA
Updated February 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/2007-2008-state-level-personhood-and.html
"Personhood" Bill in SC - Call on Republicans Delleney and Harrison to pass out of Committee
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/04/personhood-bill-in-sc-call-on.html
Flyer - "Personhood" Bill in SC - Call on Republicans Delleney and Harrison
to pass out of Committee (two pages)
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3284-08-06.doc
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Present plans are to run the above radio commercial weekdays, April 14 - April 25, 2008. You can help continue the campaign to: 1) increase awareness among Christian pro-lifers about the 10 year effort to END ABORTION (and not just "Regulate" abortion incrementally) by passing the Right to Life Act of SC; and 2) shine an accountability "spotlight" on these Republican leaders in the SC House who have the power, authority, and responsibility, to be advocates for the most defenseless of human beings, the unborn in the womb, and to do their rightful job, to ESTABLISH JUSTICE and pass the "Personhood" Bill out of committee !
Please help by contributing either directly to the cost of airing more commercials (designate your contribution), or to the overhead and operating expenses of CCL.
To donate to Columbia Christians for Life:
Two methods -
1. Please make checks and mail to: Columbia Christians for Life (CCL)
(NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE) P.O. Box 50358
Columbia, SC 29250
2. Or, if you are a PayPal member (www.paypal.com ), you may also send CCL ministry donations to:
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net [contributions to CCL are not tax-deductible]
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"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it." Psalm 94:15, KJB
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,..." Hosea 4:6
"O My people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matt. 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 765-0916
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
April 14, 2008
April 14, 2008
April 06, 2008
"Personhood" Bill in SC - Call on Republicans Delleney and Harrison to pass out of Committee
The Constitutional Laws Subcommittee (chaired by Rep. Greg Delleney) of the SC House Judiciary Committee (chaired by Rep. Jim Harrison) conducted the first public hearing in three years (since March 2005) on the Right to Life Act of SC (H.3284/H.3697), over seven weeks ago, on February 14, 2008:
"Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill - Public Hearing, February 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/right-to-life-act-of-sc-personhood-bill.html
Public Hearing Statement in support of Right to Life Act of SC - Columbia, SC - Feb. 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/public-hearing-statement-in-support-of.html
Now it is unclear whether or not Rep. Delleney will hold any further public hearings in the 2008 SC Legislative year (which ends June 5) on the Right to Life Act of SC, to pass the bill out of his Constitutional Laws Subcommittee, as he has already done once before, the last time he held a public hearing for the bill, three years ago, on March 31, 2005:
'Take Action to Pass the RTL Act of SC' - April 1, 2005
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-201.doc
The bill also previously passed Rep. Harrison's full Judiciary Committee, on April 5, 2005:
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm
'Take Action to Pass the RTL Act of SC' - April 7, 2005
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-252.doc
Please contact Rep. Greg Delleney (R-Chester) and Rep. Jim Harrison (R-Columbia) and urge them to pass the Right to Life Act of SC out of their respective committees immediately. You can contact them by phone, letter, e-mail, office visit, or come to the SC State House on Tuesdays (12 noon), Wednesdays (10 AM), or Thursdays (10 AM), to lobby them directly, outside the SC House Chamber (Second Floor Lobby of State House).
Representative F. Gregory "Greg" Delleney, Jr.
District 43 - Chester & York Cos.
Contact Address:
(H) P.O. Drawer 808, Chester, 29706
Bus. (803) 581-2211 Home (803) 385-3580
(C) 532C Blatt Bldg., Columbia, 29201
(127 West End, Chester, 29706)
Bus. (803) 734-3074 Home (803) 385-3580
E-Mail Address: fgd@schouse.org
Representative James H. Harrison
District 75 - Richland Co.
Contact Address:
(H) 198 Preserve Lane, Columbia, 29209
Bus. (803) 256-0049 Home (803) 783-0777
(C) 512 Blatt Bldg., Columbia, 29201
Bus. (803) 734-3120 Home (803) 783-0777
E-Mail Address: HJU@schouse.org
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According to the text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision itself, all that is necessary to "collapse" the abortion argument, is to establish fetal "personhood" without any exceptions. For 10 years, since February 1998, the Right to Life Act of SC has been an active bill in the SC House, and if passed into law, would recognize the God-given personhood of human beings at fertilization, without exceptions. This bill would end "legalized" abortion in South Carolina.
With Republican majorities in the SC House, the SC Senate, a Republican Governor (Mark Sanford), and a Republican Lt. Governor (President of the SC Senate) Andre Bauer, it is clear that the reason for the failure to pass the Right to Life Act of SC, and bring an end to the pre-meditated murder of 7,000 children per year in South Carolina, is because the REPUBLICANS in the South Carolina Legislature have chosen not to do so.
Fetal 'Personhood' denied by Republican-majority SC Legislature in 2007 (2008 ?)
According to the language of Roe, if a Legislature will declare the 'fetus' is legally a 'person ' at fertilization, without 'exceptions,' Abortion is over ! Neither the Republican-majority SC House, nor the Republican majority SC Senate, even held Judiciary Subcommittee public hearings on the Right to Life Act of SC (H.3284 / S.313) during the entire January 2007 through June 2007 SC Legislative session, finally adjourning June 29.
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3284-H3273-S313-01.doc
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The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal "personhood" at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 35 years ago. The issue of legal "Personhood" for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 35 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
2007-2008 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- AL, CO, GA, MT, SC, VA
Updated February 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/2007-2008-state-level-personhood-and.html
"Personhood Song" - Artist: Tony Funderbunk (4:06 - audio link)
"Give an unborn baby personhood..."
www.coloradorighttolife.org/files/audio/personhood.mp3
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George Mason, Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1787:
"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes nation sins, by national calamites."
America lost over 600,000 American lives in the War Between Americans (1861-1865) as a result of God's divine judgment on the national sin of America's institutionalized chattel slavery system
Just as God is already bringing incrementally greater divine judgment (e.g., 9-11, War in Iraq, the ongoing Foreign Invasion by 12-20 Million Illegal Aliens, a Collapsing Economy, etc.) upon America for our federal, state, and local government-protected, institutionalized system of child-murder in our 750 plus abortion centers and hospitals and doctors offices today.
www.lifedynamics.com/DeathCamps/DeathCamps.cfm
AMERICA - A NATION UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT.
Psalm 33:12; Proverb 14:34; Psalm 9:17; 2 Kings 24:1-4; Jeremiah 19:3-5; Psalm 106:37-42
Foreign invasion (12-20 Million Illegal Aliens) and War (Iraq) are divine consequences upon a nation, any nation, for the shedding of innocent blood (e.g., 2 Kings 24:1-4)...
"If My people [Christians], which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [sins of commission and omission]; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation]."
2 Chronicles 7:14
FIFTH ANNUAL "REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT" OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE IN COLUMBIA, SC (since January 2003)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, South Steps, SC State House, Columbia, South Carolina
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-05.doc
"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."
Psalm 94:15, KJB
"America repent"
"Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet"
www.myspace.com/timjuillet
(scroll down to song in player window in upper right of home page)
No King but King Jesus! (Yeshua Messiah)
Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America's Colonial Charters, State Constitutions, and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matt. 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 765-0916
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
www.LefemineForLife.net
April 6, 2008
"Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill - Public Hearing, February 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/right-to-life-act-of-sc-personhood-bill.html
Public Hearing Statement in support of Right to Life Act of SC - Columbia, SC - Feb. 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/public-hearing-statement-in-support-of.html
Now it is unclear whether or not Rep. Delleney will hold any further public hearings in the 2008 SC Legislative year (which ends June 5) on the Right to Life Act of SC, to pass the bill out of his Constitutional Laws Subcommittee, as he has already done once before, the last time he held a public hearing for the bill, three years ago, on March 31, 2005:
'Take Action to Pass the RTL Act of SC' - April 1, 2005
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-201.doc
The bill also previously passed Rep. Harrison's full Judiciary Committee, on April 5, 2005:
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm
'Take Action to Pass the RTL Act of SC' - April 7, 2005
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-252.doc
Please contact Rep. Greg Delleney (R-Chester) and Rep. Jim Harrison (R-Columbia) and urge them to pass the Right to Life Act of SC out of their respective committees immediately. You can contact them by phone, letter, e-mail, office visit, or come to the SC State House on Tuesdays (12 noon), Wednesdays (10 AM), or Thursdays (10 AM), to lobby them directly, outside the SC House Chamber (Second Floor Lobby of State House).
Representative F. Gregory "Greg" Delleney, Jr.
District 43 - Chester & York Cos.
Contact Address:
(H) P.O. Drawer 808, Chester, 29706
Bus. (803) 581-2211 Home (803) 385-3580
(C) 532C Blatt Bldg., Columbia, 29201
(127 West End, Chester, 29706)
Bus. (803) 734-3074 Home (803) 385-3580
E-Mail Address: fgd@schouse.org
Representative James H. Harrison
District 75 - Richland Co.
Contact Address:
(H) 198 Preserve Lane, Columbia, 29209
Bus. (803) 256-0049 Home (803) 783-0777
(C) 512 Blatt Bldg., Columbia, 29201
Bus. (803) 734-3120 Home (803) 783-0777
E-Mail Address: HJU@schouse.org
_________________________________________________
According to the text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision itself, all that is necessary to "collapse" the abortion argument, is to establish fetal "personhood" without any exceptions. For 10 years, since February 1998, the Right to Life Act of SC has been an active bill in the SC House, and if passed into law, would recognize the God-given personhood of human beings at fertilization, without exceptions. This bill would end "legalized" abortion in South Carolina.
With Republican majorities in the SC House, the SC Senate, a Republican Governor (Mark Sanford), and a Republican Lt. Governor (President of the SC Senate) Andre Bauer, it is clear that the reason for the failure to pass the Right to Life Act of SC, and bring an end to the pre-meditated murder of 7,000 children per year in South Carolina, is because the REPUBLICANS in the South Carolina Legislature have chosen not to do so.
Fetal 'Personhood' denied by Republican-majority SC Legislature in 2007 (2008 ?)
According to the language of Roe, if a Legislature will declare the 'fetus' is legally a 'person ' at fertilization, without 'exceptions,' Abortion is over ! Neither the Republican-majority SC House, nor the Republican majority SC Senate, even held Judiciary Subcommittee public hearings on the Right to Life Act of SC (H.3284 / S.313) during the entire January 2007 through June 2007 SC Legislative session, finally adjourning June 29.
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3284-H3273-S313-01.doc
_________________________________________________
The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal "personhood" at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 35 years ago. The issue of legal "Personhood" for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 35 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
2007-2008 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- AL, CO, GA, MT, SC, VA
Updated February 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/2007-2008-state-level-personhood-and.html
"Personhood Song" - Artist: Tony Funderbunk (4:06 - audio link)
"Give an unborn baby personhood..."
www.coloradorighttolife.org/files/audio/personhood.mp3
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George Mason, Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1787:
"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes nation sins, by national calamites."
America lost over 600,000 American lives in the War Between Americans (1861-1865) as a result of God's divine judgment on the national sin of America's institutionalized chattel slavery system
Just as God is already bringing incrementally greater divine judgment (e.g., 9-11, War in Iraq, the ongoing Foreign Invasion by 12-20 Million Illegal Aliens, a Collapsing Economy, etc.) upon America for our federal, state, and local government-protected, institutionalized system of child-murder in our 750 plus abortion centers and hospitals and doctors offices today.
www.lifedynamics.com/DeathCamps/DeathCamps.cfm
AMERICA - A NATION UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT.
Psalm 33:12; Proverb 14:34; Psalm 9:17; 2 Kings 24:1-4; Jeremiah 19:3-5; Psalm 106:37-42
Foreign invasion (12-20 Million Illegal Aliens) and War (Iraq) are divine consequences upon a nation, any nation, for the shedding of innocent blood (e.g., 2 Kings 24:1-4)...
"If My people [Christians], which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [sins of commission and omission]; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation]."
2 Chronicles 7:14
FIFTH ANNUAL "REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT" OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE IN COLUMBIA, SC (since January 2003)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, South Steps, SC State House, Columbia, South Carolina
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-05.doc
"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."
Psalm 94:15, KJB
"America repent"
"Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet"
www.myspace.com/timjuillet
(scroll down to song in player window in upper right of home page)
No King but King Jesus! (Yeshua Messiah)
Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America's Colonial Charters, State Constitutions, and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matt. 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 765-0916
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
www.LefemineForLife.net
April 6, 2008
February 28, 2008
Colorado Catholic Conference (Colorado's three Catholic Bishops) does not back Personhood Amendment
denverpost.com
DENVER & THE WEST
Catholic Conference does not back personhood amendment
www.denverpost.com/news/ci_8397157
By Electa Draper
The Denver Post
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Posted: 02/28/2008 05:47:29 PM MST
Updated: 02/28/2008 05:48:59 PM MST
The Colorado Catholic Conference said it has not endorsed a Colorado ballot measure that would grant personhood and constitutional rights to humans from the moment of conception.
The conference, which speaks for the state's three Catholic bishops, issued a statement Thursday contradicting the petitioners Colorado for Equal Rights which claimed Wednesday that the church's state leaders are on board.
Colorado for Equal Rights organizer Keith Mason had issued a statement listing the anti-abortion group's prominent supporters.
Mason said Pueblo Bishop Arthur Tafoya, Colorado Springs Bishop Michael Sheridan and Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput had "personally expressed their support."
Colorado Catholic Conference Executive Director Jennifer Kraska said the statement "seriously misrepresents" the views of the Catholic bishops regarding the personhood amendment.
Mason said that Tafoya of personally told him he had signed the petition and "to keep up the good work."
Tafoya has not signed the petition, Kraska said.
"We commend the goal of this effort to end abortion. Individual Catholics may choose to work for its passage," Kraska said.
"At the same time, we recognize that other people committed to the sanctity of life have raised serious questions about this specific amendment's timing and content," she said.
Kraska said the Georgia Catholic archbishops did not support a similar human-life bill tabled by the state legislature.
The Georgia archbishops said the bill would not effectively challenge Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
"It's a political, gutless position," said Judie Brown, president of the American Life League.
"As a Catholic, it's the most scandalous thing I've ever heard," Brown said. "I can't believe that any bishop wouldn't want to be out in the front lines helping the petitioners. The sanctity of life is a fundamental teaching of the Catholic Church."
The majority of Colorado for Equal Rights' 1,000 volunteers, Mason said, are Catholics.
The dioceses also had questions about Colorado for Equal Rights' structure, financials, strategy and tactics, Kraska said. She had requested additional information from the group, she said, that it never provided.
Mason said he did provide it and would do so again.
The Colorado effort is part of a national movement to win Supreme Court review of Roe v. Wade, Brown said. Montana and Mississippi also have ballot initiatives in progress for 2008; Georgia, Michigan, Ohio and Oregon
were working toward a 2009 measure.
Electa Draper: 303-954-1276 or edraper@denverpost.com
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February 25, 2008
Woman hanged herself after aborting her own twin babies
"She was only going ahead with the abortion because her boyfriend did not want the twins."
"I believe this is what led Emma to take her own life - she could not live with what she had done."
Telegraph.UK.COM
Artist hanged herself after aborting her twins
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/22/nartist122.xml
February 24, 2008
Tragically this is not the first suicide by a woman stricken in her heart over what she has done to murder her own baby (in this case two babies) after-the-fact. However, don't expect the biased, pro-abortion, American dominant (for now) dinosaur media to report these kinds of stories even when they happen here in the States.
No wonder dinosaur daily newspapers are struggling financially, losing readers, reducing staff levels, etc. Circulating stories like this and so many others that are censored by the dinosaur media (e.g., the numerous medical studies showing abortion causes breast cancer - www.abortionbreastcancer.com, or the CFR's North American Union - www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com / www.spp.gov, or the almost 90-year-old Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) itself - "The Definition of Tyranny"- www.christianlifeandliberty.net/CFR-TNAart.doc / www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/CFRMembers.html, that controls the federal government and corporate/dinosaur media, for that matter !), demonstrates both the need and the reality of the New Media !
Steve Lefemine
Columbia Christians for Life
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Telegraph.UK.COM
Artist hanged herself after aborting her twins
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/22/nartist122.xml
Last Updated: 12:23pm GMT 24/02/2008
An artist killed herself after aborting her twins when she was eight weeks pregnant, leaving a note saying: "I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum."
Cardinal's aide 'pushed me to abortion'
Andrew McKie: The Abortion Act is not working as intended
Catholic hospital bans abortion referrals
Emma Beck was found hanging at her home in Helston, Cornwall, on Feb 1 2007. She was declared dead early the following day - her 31st birthday.
Her suicide note read: "I told everyone I didn't want to do it, even at the hospital. I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died. I want to be with my babies: they need me, no-one else does."
The inquest at Truro City Hall heard that Miss Beck had split up with her boyfriend, referred to as "Ben" after he "reacted badly" to the pregnancy.
She saw her GP before the termination, but missed an appointment at a hospital in Penzance. She then cancelled, but later turned up to an appointment at a clinic at Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske. The counsellor was on holiday so a doctor referred Miss Beck to a pregnancy counselling telephone service eight days before carrying out the abortion when she was eight weeks pregnant, the inquest heard.
The coroner, Dr Emma Carlyon, ordered that the identities of the doctor who performed the abortion and her lead consultant be kept secret.
The inquest heard that Sylvia Beck, the victim's mother, wrote to the hospital after her daughter's death, saying: "I want to know why she was not given the opportunity to see a counsellor.
"She was only going ahead with the abortion because her boyfriend did not want the twins.
"I believe this is what led Emma to take her own life - she could not live with what she had done."
The doctor said: "I discussed Emma's situation with her, and wrote on the form, 'Unsupported, lives alone, ex-partner aware'.
"It is normal practice to give a woman the number for telephone counselling when a counsellor is not available.
"I am satisfied that everything was done to make sure that Emma consented to the operation.
She added: "We have since appointed more counsellors so there is more holiday cover."
Katie Gibbs, Miss Beck's GP, told the hearing: "She was extremely distressed by the abortion procedure, and I didn't think she ever came to terms with it.
"She had a long history of anxiety and depression. Despite my best efforts, she was not willing to see a counsellor after the termination."
Her boss at the clinic, said: "The time that can be given to a woman by a counsellor is limited in a busy hospital.
"I am satisfied everything was done to make sure Emma was consenting to surgery. I don't feel there was any gap in the counselling service.
"There were lots of individuals who would be alert to any doubts. The comments made by Emma's mother are not about a doctor I recognise."
Mrs Beck told the court: "Emma was considered a talented artist, and sold a number of paintings.
"She was pleased when she became pregnant, but Ben reacted badly to the news."
Recording a verdict of suicide, Dr Carlyon said: "It is clear that a termination can have a profound effect on a woman's life.
"But I am reassured by the evidence of the doctors here."
© Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2008
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Also posted at: www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=217163
"I believe this is what led Emma to take her own life - she could not live with what she had done."
Telegraph.UK.COM
Artist hanged herself after aborting her twins
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/22/nartist122.xml
February 24, 2008
Tragically this is not the first suicide by a woman stricken in her heart over what she has done to murder her own baby (in this case two babies) after-the-fact. However, don't expect the biased, pro-abortion, American dominant (for now) dinosaur media to report these kinds of stories even when they happen here in the States.
No wonder dinosaur daily newspapers are struggling financially, losing readers, reducing staff levels, etc. Circulating stories like this and so many others that are censored by the dinosaur media (e.g., the numerous medical studies showing abortion causes breast cancer - www.abortionbreastcancer.com, or the CFR's North American Union - www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com / www.spp.gov, or the almost 90-year-old Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) itself - "The Definition of Tyranny"- www.christianlifeandliberty.net/CFR-TNAart.doc / www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/CFRMembers.html, that controls the federal government and corporate/dinosaur media, for that matter !), demonstrates both the need and the reality of the New Media !
Steve Lefemine
Columbia Christians for Life
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Telegraph.UK.COM
Artist hanged herself after aborting her twins
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/22/nartist122.xml
Last Updated: 12:23pm GMT 24/02/2008
An artist killed herself after aborting her twins when she was eight weeks pregnant, leaving a note saying: "I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum."
Cardinal's aide 'pushed me to abortion'
Andrew McKie: The Abortion Act is not working as intended
Catholic hospital bans abortion referrals
Emma Beck was found hanging at her home in Helston, Cornwall, on Feb 1 2007. She was declared dead early the following day - her 31st birthday.
Her suicide note read: "I told everyone I didn't want to do it, even at the hospital. I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died. I want to be with my babies: they need me, no-one else does."
The inquest at Truro City Hall heard that Miss Beck had split up with her boyfriend, referred to as "Ben" after he "reacted badly" to the pregnancy.
She saw her GP before the termination, but missed an appointment at a hospital in Penzance. She then cancelled, but later turned up to an appointment at a clinic at Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske. The counsellor was on holiday so a doctor referred Miss Beck to a pregnancy counselling telephone service eight days before carrying out the abortion when she was eight weeks pregnant, the inquest heard.
The coroner, Dr Emma Carlyon, ordered that the identities of the doctor who performed the abortion and her lead consultant be kept secret.
The inquest heard that Sylvia Beck, the victim's mother, wrote to the hospital after her daughter's death, saying: "I want to know why she was not given the opportunity to see a counsellor.
"She was only going ahead with the abortion because her boyfriend did not want the twins.
"I believe this is what led Emma to take her own life - she could not live with what she had done."
The doctor said: "I discussed Emma's situation with her, and wrote on the form, 'Unsupported, lives alone, ex-partner aware'.
"It is normal practice to give a woman the number for telephone counselling when a counsellor is not available.
"I am satisfied that everything was done to make sure that Emma consented to the operation.
She added: "We have since appointed more counsellors so there is more holiday cover."
Katie Gibbs, Miss Beck's GP, told the hearing: "She was extremely distressed by the abortion procedure, and I didn't think she ever came to terms with it.
"She had a long history of anxiety and depression. Despite my best efforts, she was not willing to see a counsellor after the termination."
Her boss at the clinic, said: "The time that can be given to a woman by a counsellor is limited in a busy hospital.
"I am satisfied everything was done to make sure Emma was consenting to surgery. I don't feel there was any gap in the counselling service.
"There were lots of individuals who would be alert to any doubts. The comments made by Emma's mother are not about a doctor I recognise."
Mrs Beck told the court: "Emma was considered a talented artist, and sold a number of paintings.
"She was pleased when she became pregnant, but Ben reacted badly to the news."
Recording a verdict of suicide, Dr Carlyon said: "It is clear that a termination can have a profound effect on a woman's life.
"But I am reassured by the evidence of the doctors here."
© Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2008
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Also posted at: www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=217163
February 15, 2008
2007-2008 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- AL, CO, GA, MT, SC, VA
Including: 1) only principled pro-life Personhood Bills [except in the case of Virginia, see below]; and
2) both, bills in the States' Legislatures, and Proposed State-Level Constitutional Amendments, all with NO EXCEPTIONS; i.e., declaring bona fide legal "Personhood" at fertilization or conception (any "exceptions" fatally undermine the legal concept of legal personhood, as expressed in the very text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision).
Updated February 14, 2008 ("abortion-ban" bills that do not mention persons, personhood are not included)
Alabama - HB 348
http://www.blogger.com/acas/searchableinstruments/2008rs/bills/hb348.htm
Type Bill: state-level life-at-conception/personhood bill: "Effective July 1, 2008, the laws of this state shall be interpreted and construed to acknowledge on behalf of the unborn child at every stage of development all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of this state, subject only to the Constitution of the United States and decisional interpretations thereof by the United States Supreme Court."
Colorado - Human Life Amendment
http://coloradoforequalrights.com/files/initiativetext.pdf
Type Bill: state-level personhood constitutional amendment by citizen petition
Georgia - HB 1
www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/fulltext/hb1.htm
Type bill: state-level abortion ban bill; also asserts fetal personhood as legislative finding of fact
Georgia - HR 536
www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2007_08/search/hr536.htm
Type Bill: state-level personhood constitutional amendment introduced in Georgia General Assembly
Montana - HB 403
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/HB0403.htm
Type bill: state-level personhood constitutional amendment introduced in Montana Legislature
Montana - CI-100, the Montana Personhood Amendment
www.life2008.org/ballotaccess/
Type Bill: state-level personhood constitutional amendment by citizen petition
South Carolina - H.3284
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm
Type bill: state-level personhood bill
South Carolina - S.313
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/313.htm
Type bill: state-level personhood bill
Virginia - HB 2797
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2797
Type bill: state-level right to life at fertilization bill; does not assert legal personhood, but does assert:
"That life begins at the moment of fertilization and the right to enjoyment of life guaranteed by Article 1, § 1 of the Constitution of Virginia is vested in each born and preborn human being from the moment of fertilization."
[ Note: this Virginia bill asserts the constitutional right to life at fertilization for each "human being." ]
Prepared by: Columbia Christians for Life, PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250 * (803) 765-0916 www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net (click on "RTL Act of SC") / www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
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"Exceptions" to legal "personhood" are unconstitutional, as explained in the text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, and in a Justice Blackmun footnote therein:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision stated that if legal "personhood" for the unborn is established, then the pro-abortion legal argument "collapses."
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: [emphasis added]
“[ Footnote 54 ] When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. Despite broad proscription, an exception always exists… But if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother's condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the Amendment's command? ...”
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973):
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
Right to Life Act of SC - news conference and "Jesus Christ is Lord of the Gates" pro-life rally - Jan. 17, 2006
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
Any "exceptions" to fetal personhood fatally undermines the entire "personhood" legal concept, just as it did in 1973. For over 35 years now, the pro-life movement has failed to achieve the goal of ending child-murder-by abortion by a state-level, statutory (or state-level constitutional amendment) declaration that pre-birth human beings are legal "persons" at fertilization, without exception.
The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published over 35 years ago.
The key legal issue presented in the very text of Roe, necessary to unravel the entire Roe framework, is statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings. This would satisfy the Roe formula published 35 years ago.
The issue of legal “personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 35 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
Either a "person" is a "person," or they are not. Either ALL pre-birth human beings are legal "persons" at fertilization, or they are not. There can be no "exceptions" to fetal "personhood."
The Saviour said, "... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Matthew 16:18
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 765-0916
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (click on "RTL Act of SC")
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
February 14, 2008
- AL, CO, GA, MT, SC, VA
Including: 1) only principled pro-life Personhood Bills [except in the case of Virginia, see below]; and
2) both, bills in the States' Legislatures, and Proposed State-Level Constitutional Amendments, all with NO EXCEPTIONS; i.e., declaring bona fide legal "Personhood" at fertilization or conception (any "exceptions" fatally undermine the legal concept of legal personhood, as expressed in the very text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision).
Updated February 14, 2008 ("abortion-ban" bills that do not mention persons, personhood are not included)
Alabama - HB 348
http://www.blogger.com/acas/searchableinstruments/2008rs/bills/hb348.htm
Type Bill: state-level life-at-conception/personhood bill: "Effective July 1, 2008, the laws of this state shall be interpreted and construed to acknowledge on behalf of the unborn child at every stage of development all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of this state, subject only to the Constitution of the United States and decisional interpretations thereof by the United States Supreme Court."
Colorado - Human Life Amendment
http://coloradoforequalrights.com/files/initiativetext.pdf
Type Bill: state-level personhood constitutional amendment by citizen petition
Georgia - HB 1
www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/fulltext/hb1.htm
Type bill: state-level abortion ban bill; also asserts fetal personhood as legislative finding of fact
Georgia - HR 536
www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2007_08/search/hr536.htm
Type Bill: state-level personhood constitutional amendment introduced in Georgia General Assembly
Montana - HB 403
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/HB0403.htm
Type bill: state-level personhood constitutional amendment introduced in Montana Legislature
Montana - CI-100, the Montana Personhood Amendment
www.life2008.org/ballotaccess/
Type Bill: state-level personhood constitutional amendment by citizen petition
South Carolina - H.3284
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm
Type bill: state-level personhood bill
South Carolina - S.313
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/313.htm
Type bill: state-level personhood bill
Virginia - HB 2797
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2797
Type bill: state-level right to life at fertilization bill; does not assert legal personhood, but does assert:
"That life begins at the moment of fertilization and the right to enjoyment of life guaranteed by Article 1, § 1 of the Constitution of Virginia is vested in each born and preborn human being from the moment of fertilization."
[ Note: this Virginia bill asserts the constitutional right to life at fertilization for each "human being." ]
Prepared by: Columbia Christians for Life, PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250 * (803) 765-0916 www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net (click on "RTL Act of SC") / www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
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"Exceptions" to legal "personhood" are unconstitutional, as explained in the text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, and in a Justice Blackmun footnote therein:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
The 1973 Roe v. Wade decision stated that if legal "personhood" for the unborn is established, then the pro-abortion legal argument "collapses."
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: [emphasis added]
“[ Footnote 54 ] When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. Despite broad proscription, an exception always exists… But if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother's condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the Amendment's command? ...”
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973):
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
Right to Life Act of SC - news conference and "Jesus Christ is Lord of the Gates" pro-life rally - Jan. 17, 2006
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
Any "exceptions" to fetal personhood fatally undermines the entire "personhood" legal concept, just as it did in 1973. For over 35 years now, the pro-life movement has failed to achieve the goal of ending child-murder-by abortion by a state-level, statutory (or state-level constitutional amendment) declaration that pre-birth human beings are legal "persons" at fertilization, without exception.
The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published over 35 years ago.
The key legal issue presented in the very text of Roe, necessary to unravel the entire Roe framework, is statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings. This would satisfy the Roe formula published 35 years ago.
The issue of legal “personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 35 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
Either a "person" is a "person," or they are not. Either ALL pre-birth human beings are legal "persons" at fertilization, or they are not. There can be no "exceptions" to fetal "personhood."
The Saviour said, "... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
Matthew 16:18
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 765-0916
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ (click on "RTL Act of SC")
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
February 14, 2008
February 14, 2008
Public Hearing Statement in support of Right to Life Act of SC - Columbia, SC - Feb. 14, 2008
Bill: H.3697, the "Right to Life Act of SC"
Where: Room 511, Blatt House Office Building
SC State House complex
Columbia, South Carolina
When: Thursday, February 14, at 9:00 AM
Legislative body: Constitutional Laws Subcommittee of the SC House Judiciary Committee:
Today's Public Hearing on the Right to Life Act of SC lasted from approx. 9-10 AM. Speakers included South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, four pro-life/anti-abortion speakers, and two pro-child-murder speakers. Time expired before all those wishing to speak were afforded an opportunity, and so there may be another hearing scheduled for additional public input.
Legal Opinion (2005) of South Carolina Attorney General on the Right to Life Act of SC
"Accordingly, it is our opinion that the Right to Life Act is constitutional."
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/Westlaw_Document_15_03_35_5392471.doc
Where: Room 511, Blatt House Office Building
SC State House complex
Columbia, South Carolina
When: Thursday, February 14, at 9:00 AM
Legislative body: Constitutional Laws Subcommittee of the SC House Judiciary Committee:
Today's Public Hearing on the Right to Life Act of SC lasted from approx. 9-10 AM. Speakers included South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, four pro-life/anti-abortion speakers, and two pro-child-murder speakers. Time expired before all those wishing to speak were afforded an opportunity, and so there may be another hearing scheduled for additional public input.
Legal Opinion (2005) of South Carolina Attorney General on the Right to Life Act of SC
"Accordingly, it is our opinion that the Right to Life Act is constitutional."
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/Westlaw_Document_15_03_35_5392471.doc
South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster appearing before the Constitutional Laws Subcommittee, February 14, 2008, reasserted that the Right to Life Act of South Carolina is constitutional, but also said that if applied to abortion, the outcome would be dependent upon the ruling of the US Supreme Court.
The four pro-life/anti-abortion speakers were:
- Mr. Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn
- Mr. Bob Slimp, minister, former Army chaplain
- Mr. Charles Butler, pastor, Souls Afire Baptist Church
- Mr. Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life
The actual bill on the Con Laws Subcommittee agenda was H.3697, a later revision of H.3284.
The prepared statement given to Con Laws Subcommittee members applies to both H.3284 and H.3697, as was explained to the Con Laws Subcommittee members present.
H.3284
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm
H.3697
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3697.htm
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Columbia Christians for Life
P.O. Box 50358, Columbia, S.C. 29250 * (803) 765-0916 * http://www.christianslifeandliberty.net/
“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
P.O. Box 50358, Columbia, S.C. 29250 * (803) 765-0916 * http://www.christianslifeandliberty.net/
“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
Public Hearing, Constitutional Laws Subcommittee, SC House Judiciary Committee
Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill - H.3284
Thursday, February 14, 2008, 9:00 AM: Room 511, Blatt Building, State House complex, Columbia, SC
Statement by Steve Lefemine, dir. Columbia Christians for Life:
( to be posted at: www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net ('RTL Act') and www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net )
Good morning Mr. Chairman and members of the Constitutional Laws Subcommittee. My name is Steve Lefemine and I am director of Columbia Christians for Life. I ask you today to ESTABLISH JUSTICE for the 500 plus pre-birth children who will otherwise likely be murdered by surgical abortion here in SC this next month, as they have been, each and every month, month after month, year after bloody year, let alone perhaps multiple times that number by chemical abortion, by favorably passing H.3284, the Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill, as it is presently written, with no amendments, out of committee as soon as possible. From 1973 to 2006, over 324,000 pre-birth human lives were destroyed by surgical abortion alone here in our state, and the DHEC figures show statewide increases for 2005 and 2006. Their blood cries out from the ground for God's vengeance, and He is bringing His just judgment upon us, all of us, and this land, for the shedding of their innocent blood. America as we know it will be destroyed if we do not stop this innocent bloodshed. In your folders are pictures of the victims of this slaughter, which you have the legal authority to bring to an end.
This is the fourth time this bill has come before this Subcommittee since it was first introduced in 1998, 10 years ago this month. There were hearings in 2001, 2004, and 2005. In March 2005, the SC Attorney General issued a written legal opinion stating the bill was constitutional on its face, although if applied to the matter of abortion, it would have to be adjudicated, which would come as no surprise. In April 2005, the bill was amended on the full House floor by former member Rep. Rivers, to include an "exception" for rape victims. As I wrote in memos yesterday, please pass this bill out of this subcommittee as it was passed out of subcommittee and the full Judiciary Committee in 2005, i.e., without any exceptions, such as the Rivers amendment.
The key legal issue presented in the very text of Roe, necessary to unravel the whole Roe framework, is to statutorily vest legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, with no "exceptions." This would satisfy explicitly the Roe formula written 35 years ago. Exceptions to "personhood" are unconstitutional.
In your folders I have provided copies of excerpts from Roe v. Wade, as I did with yesterday's memos. Specifically, quoting, with word inserts bracketed, from the text of the 1973 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.”
Clearly, the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision itself is stating that if legal "personhood" for the unborn is established, then the pro-abortion legal argument "collapses." With "personhood" there never would have been legalized abortion under Roe v. Wade. But, tragically, Texas did have an “exception” which undermined their entire “personhood” argument. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: [emphasis added]
“[ Footnote 54 ] When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. Despite broad proscription, an exception always exists… But if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother's condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the Amendment's command? ...”
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973): http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
So there it is, in the text of the Roe decision itself, "exceptions" to legal "personhood" are unconstitutional. As common sense should tell us, either a human being is a "person" or they are not. Either ALL pre-birth human beings are legal "persons" at fertilization, or they are not. There can be no "exceptions" to fetal "personhood."
The Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill, H.3284, 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 of SC "Personhood" Bill would, inarguably, place all pre-birth human beings in the same protected status. Personhood state-level constitutional amendments are currently being pursued in Georgia, Colorado, and Montana. The understanding of "Personhood" is growing around America.
Lastly, many Americans are deeply disturbed about two seemingly unrelated issues, namely the ongoing War in Iraq, and the Invasion of our country by 12-20 million illegal aliens. Yet, in God's economy, these problems are connected to the shedding of innocent blood. The Bible makes clear that Foreign Invasion and War are two of God's "end-game" judgments on wicked nations that shed innocent blood.
Read 2 Kings 24:1-4.
In the Name of Messiah, King of all earthly kings, I call on you to pass this bill into law without further delay. If we will repent of this great national, corporate sin, and crime against humanity, then perhaps God will, by His Mercy and Grace, spare this nation from more calamity, and from His Great Wrath and Judgment.
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HISTORY OF "RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SOUTH CAROLINA":
The Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill was first introduced in the SC House in Feb 1998 (www.scstatehouse.net/sess112_1997-1998/bills/4558.htm), and was also first introduced in the SC Senate in Feb 1998 (www.scstatehouse.net/sess112_1997-1998/bills/1060.htm).
The first public hearing was in 2001, when it failed at the House Subcommittee level. The next hearing was in 2004, when it passed the House Subcommittee, but then failed at the full House Judiciary Committee.
In April 2005, the bill (H.3213) passed the full SC House on Second Reading ( 95Y-18N ) for the first time on April 13, 2005 ( www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/hj05/20050413.htm ), albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment, and on Third Reading ( 91Y-10N ) on April 14, 2005 ( www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/hj05/20050414.htm ). Any "exceptions" to legal "personhood" fatally undermine the legal concept of "personhood" as contained in the SC Constitution, and in the US Constitution, in the 5th and 14th Amendments. The bill (H.3213/S.111) was given two hearings in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee in May 2005 (for the first time on the SC Senate side), but no action was taken. No hearings or further action took place in the 2006 Session.
The SC House (H.3284) and SC Senate (S.313) bills were re-filed in 2007, but no hearings took place in either the SC House or SC Senate in 2007.
Go to homepage of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ , click on "RTL Act of SC" page for history of bill's progress since April 2005. Also, go to: http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
2005/2006 Session
Go to homepage of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ to hear these audio files of the testimony and discussion in committee meetings conducted in April/May 2005:
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 18, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Audio (36:09) - Public hearing, no debate or vote
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 4, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Audio (40:50) - Public hearing, no debate or vote
SC House Judiciary Committee, April 5, 2005 - H.3213
Audio (38:33) - Following debate, bill passed favorably by vote of 15 - 5 (roll call)
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm
Legal Opinion (2005) of South Carolina Attorney General on the Right to Life Act of SC
So there it is, in the text of the Roe decision itself, "exceptions" to legal "personhood" are unconstitutional. As common sense should tell us, either a human being is a "person" or they are not. Either ALL pre-birth human beings are legal "persons" at fertilization, or they are not. There can be no "exceptions" to fetal "personhood."
The Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill, H.3284, 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 of SC "Personhood" Bill would, inarguably, place all pre-birth human beings in the same protected status. Personhood state-level constitutional amendments are currently being pursued in Georgia, Colorado, and Montana. The understanding of "Personhood" is growing around America.
Lastly, many Americans are deeply disturbed about two seemingly unrelated issues, namely the ongoing War in Iraq, and the Invasion of our country by 12-20 million illegal aliens. Yet, in God's economy, these problems are connected to the shedding of innocent blood. The Bible makes clear that Foreign Invasion and War are two of God's "end-game" judgments on wicked nations that shed innocent blood.
Read 2 Kings 24:1-4.
In the Name of Messiah, King of all earthly kings, I call on you to pass this bill into law without further delay. If we will repent of this great national, corporate sin, and crime against humanity, then perhaps God will, by His Mercy and Grace, spare this nation from more calamity, and from His Great Wrath and Judgment.
______________________________________________
______________________________________________
HISTORY OF "RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SOUTH CAROLINA":
The Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill was first introduced in the SC House in Feb 1998 (www.scstatehouse.net/sess112_1997-1998/bills/4558.htm), and was also first introduced in the SC Senate in Feb 1998 (www.scstatehouse.net/sess112_1997-1998/bills/1060.htm).
The first public hearing was in 2001, when it failed at the House Subcommittee level. The next hearing was in 2004, when it passed the House Subcommittee, but then failed at the full House Judiciary Committee.
In April 2005, the bill (H.3213) passed the full SC House on Second Reading ( 95Y-18N ) for the first time on April 13, 2005 ( www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/hj05/20050413.htm ), albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment, and on Third Reading ( 91Y-10N ) on April 14, 2005 ( www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/hj05/20050414.htm ). Any "exceptions" to legal "personhood" fatally undermine the legal concept of "personhood" as contained in the SC Constitution, and in the US Constitution, in the 5th and 14th Amendments. The bill (H.3213/S.111) was given two hearings in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee in May 2005 (for the first time on the SC Senate side), but no action was taken. No hearings or further action took place in the 2006 Session.
The SC House (H.3284) and SC Senate (S.313) bills were re-filed in 2007, but no hearings took place in either the SC House or SC Senate in 2007.
Go to homepage of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ , click on "RTL Act of SC" page for history of bill's progress since April 2005. Also, go to: http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
2005/2006 Session
Go to homepage of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ to hear these audio files of the testimony and discussion in committee meetings conducted in April/May 2005:
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 18, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Audio (36:09) - Public hearing, no debate or vote
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 4, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Audio (40:50) - Public hearing, no debate or vote
SC House Judiciary Committee, April 5, 2005 - H.3213
Audio (38:33) - Following debate, bill passed favorably by vote of 15 - 5 (roll call)
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm
Legal Opinion (2005) of South Carolina Attorney General on the Right to Life Act of SC
"Accordingly, it is our opinion that the Right to Life Act is constitutional."
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/Westlaw_Document_15_03_35_5392471.doc
From the very text of the Roe v. Wade decision - if "personhood" for the fetus is established (with no "exceptions") then the legal argument for abortion "collapses":
Right to Life Act of SC - news conference and "Jesus Christ is Lord of the Gates" pro-life rally - Jan. 17, 2006
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
In the very text of the Roe v. Wade US supreme Court decision it states, “[Texas] argue[s] that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment… If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” In other words, there never would have been legalized abortion under Roe v. Wade. But tragically, Texas had an “exception” which undermined their entire “personhood” argument. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: “[ Footnote 54 ] When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. Despite broad proscription, an exception always exists… But if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother's condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the Amendment's command? ...”
Roe v. Wade
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
_________________________________________________
The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 35 years ago. The issue of legal “Personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 35 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
"Personhood Song" - Artist: Tony Funderbunk (4:06 - audio link)
"Give an unborn baby personhood..."
www.coloradorighttolife.org/files/audio/personhood.mp3
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
George Mason, Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1787:
"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes nation sins, by national calamites."
America lost over 600,000 American lives in the War Between Americans (1861-1865) as a result of God's divine judgment on the national sin of America's institutionalized chattel slavery system
Just as God is already bringing incrementally greater divine judgment (e.g., 9-11, War in Iraq, ongoing Foreign Invasion by 12-20 Million Illegal Aliens, etc., etc., etc.) upon America for our federal, state, and local government-protected, institutionalized system of child-murder in our 750 plus abortion centers and hospitals and doctors offices today. www.lifedynamics.com/DeathCamps/DeathCamps.cfm
AMERICA - A NATION UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT.
Psalm 33:12; Proverb 14:34; Psalm 9:17; 2 Kings 24:1-4; Jeremiah 19:3-5; Psalm 106:37-42
Foreign invasion (12-20 Million Illegal Aliens) and War (Iraq) are divine consequences upon a nation, any nation, for the shedding of innocent blood (e.g., 2 Kings 24:1-4)...
"If My people [Christians], which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [sins of commission and omission]; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation]."
2 Chronicles 7:14
FIFTH ANNUAL "REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT" OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE IN COLUMBIA, SC (since January 2003)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, South Steps, SC State House, Columbia, South Carolina
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-05.doc
"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."
Psalm 94:15, KJB
"America repent"
"Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet"
www.myspace.com/timjuillet
(scroll down to song in player window in upper right of home page)
No King but King Jesus! (Yeshua Messiah)
Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America’s Colonial Charters, State Constitutions, and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matt. 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 765-0916
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
http://www.lefemineforlife.net/
February 14, 2008
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/Westlaw_Document_15_03_35_5392471.doc
From the very text of the Roe v. Wade decision - if "personhood" for the fetus is established (with no "exceptions") then the legal argument for abortion "collapses":
Right to Life Act of SC - news conference and "Jesus Christ is Lord of the Gates" pro-life rally - Jan. 17, 2006
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
In the very text of the Roe v. Wade US supreme Court decision it states, “[Texas] argue[s] that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment… If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” In other words, there never would have been legalized abortion under Roe v. Wade. But tragically, Texas had an “exception” which undermined their entire “personhood” argument. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: “[ Footnote 54 ] When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. Despite broad proscription, an exception always exists… But if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother's condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the Amendment's command? ...”
Roe v. Wade
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
_________________________________________________
The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 35 years ago. The issue of legal “Personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 35 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
"Personhood Song" - Artist: Tony Funderbunk (4:06 - audio link)
"Give an unborn baby personhood..."
www.coloradorighttolife.org/files/audio/personhood.mp3
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
George Mason, Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1787:
"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes nation sins, by national calamites."
America lost over 600,000 American lives in the War Between Americans (1861-1865) as a result of God's divine judgment on the national sin of America's institutionalized chattel slavery system
Just as God is already bringing incrementally greater divine judgment (e.g., 9-11, War in Iraq, ongoing Foreign Invasion by 12-20 Million Illegal Aliens, etc., etc., etc.) upon America for our federal, state, and local government-protected, institutionalized system of child-murder in our 750 plus abortion centers and hospitals and doctors offices today. www.lifedynamics.com/DeathCamps/DeathCamps.cfm
AMERICA - A NATION UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT.
Psalm 33:12; Proverb 14:34; Psalm 9:17; 2 Kings 24:1-4; Jeremiah 19:3-5; Psalm 106:37-42
Foreign invasion (12-20 Million Illegal Aliens) and War (Iraq) are divine consequences upon a nation, any nation, for the shedding of innocent blood (e.g., 2 Kings 24:1-4)...
"If My people [Christians], which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [sins of commission and omission]; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation]."
2 Chronicles 7:14
FIFTH ANNUAL "REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT" OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE IN COLUMBIA, SC (since January 2003)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, South Steps, SC State House, Columbia, South Carolina
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-05.doc
"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."
Psalm 94:15, KJB
"America repent"
"Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet"
www.myspace.com/timjuillet
(scroll down to song in player window in upper right of home page)
No King but King Jesus! (Yeshua Messiah)
Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America’s Colonial Charters, State Constitutions, and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matt. 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 765-0916
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
http://www.lefemineforlife.net/
February 14, 2008
February 12, 2008
Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill - Public Hearing, February 14
Bill: H.3284, the "Right to Life Act of SC"
Where: Room 511, Blatt House Office Building
SC State House complex
Columbia, South Carolina
When: Thursday, February 14, at 9:00 AM
Legislative body: Constitutional Laws Subcommittee of the SC House Judiciary Committee:
www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/housebios.html
Chair, Rep. Greg Delleney (R-Chester) - fgd@schouse.org
Rep Thad Viers (R-Myrtle Beach) - ViersT@schouse.org
Rep. Jim Harrison (R-Columbia) - HJU@schouse.org
Rep. Creighton Coleman (D-Winnsboro) - cbc@schouse.org
Rep. Fletcher Smith (R-Greenville) - FNS@schouse.org
Note: Both Rep. Delleney and Rep. Viers are co-sponsors of H.3284 (see below).
The Right to Life Act of SC vests legal personhood at fertilization with no exceptions, thereby invoking the constitutional protections of due process and equal protection for legal "person," thereby ending legalized abortion (child-murder) in South Carolina.
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm
H. 3284
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Davenport, Vick, Huggins, Bingham, Toole, Hamilton, Leach, Shoopman, G.M. Smith, Bedingfield, Simrill, Littlejohn, Owens, Rice, G. Brown, Barfield, M.A. Pitts, E.H. Pitts, Loftis, J.R. Smith, G.R. Smith, Weeks, Whitmire, Viers, Pinson, Talley, Mahaffey, Duncan, Mulvaney, Cato, Walker, Lowe, White, Spires and Delleney
"Article 5
Right to Life
Section 1-1-310. This article may be cited as the 'Right to Life Act of South Carolina'.
Section 1-1-320. The right to due process, whereby no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law, and the right to equal protection of the laws, both of which rights are guaranteed
by Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of this State, vest at fertilization."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
HISTORY OF "RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SOUTH CAROLINA":
The Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill was first introduced in the SC House in Feb 1998 (www.scstatehouse.net/sess112_1997-1998/bills/4558.htm), and was also first introduced in the SC Senate in Feb 1998 (www.scstatehouse.net/sess112_1997-1998/bills/1060.htm).
The first public hearing was in 2001, when it failed at the House Subcommittee level. The next hearing was in 2004, when it passed the House Subcommittee, but then failed at the full House Judiciary Committee.
In April 2005, the bill (H.3213) passed the full SC House on Second Reading ( 95Y-18N ) for the first time on April 13, 2005 (www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/hj05/20050413.htm), albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment, and on Third Reading ( 91Y-10N ) on April 14, 2005 (www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/hj05/20050414.htm). Any "exceptions" to legal "personhood" fatally undermine the legal concept of "personhood" as contained in the SC Constitution, and in the US Constitution, in the 5th and 14th Amendments. The bill (H.3213/S.111) was given two hearings in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee in May 2005 (for the first time on the SC Senate side), but no action was taken. No hearings or further action took place in the 2006 Session.
The SC House (H.3284) and SC Senate (S.313) bills were re-filed in 2007, but no hearings took place in either the SC House or SC Senate in 2007.
Go to homepage of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, click on "RTL Act of SC" page for history of bill's progress since April 2005. Also, go to: http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
2005/2006 Session
Go to homepage of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ to hear these audio files of the testimony and discussion in committee meetings conducted in April/May 2005:
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 18, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Audio (36:09) - Public hearing, no debate or vote
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 4, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Audio (40:50) - Public hearing, no debate or vote
SC House Judiciary Committee, April 5, 2005 - H.3213
Audio (38:33) - Following debate, bill passed favorably by vote of 15 - 5 (roll call)
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm
Legal Opinion (2005) of South Carolina Attorney General on the Right to Life Act of SC
"Accordingly, it is our opinion that the Right to Life Act is constitutional."
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/Westlaw_Document_15_03_35_5392471.doc
From the very text of the Roe v. Wade decision - if "personhood" for the fetus is established (with no "exceptions") then the legal argument for abortion "collapses":
Right to Life Act of SC - news conference and "Jesus Christ is Lord of the Gates" pro-life rally - Jan. 17, 2006
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
In the very text of the Roe v. Wade US supreme Court decision it states, “[Texas] argue[s] that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment… If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” In other words, there never would have been legalized abortion under Roe v. Wade. But tragically, Texas had an “exception” which undermined their entire “personhood” argument. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: “[ Footnote 54 ] When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. Despite broad proscription, an exception always exists… But if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother's condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the Amendment's command? ...” http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
_________________________________________________
The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 35 years ago. The issue of legal “Personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 35 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
2007 State-Level Bills Banning Abortions in Eight U.S. States
- AL, CO, GA, MT, ND, SC, TX, VA (16% of States in U.S.)
Revised and updated as of March 29, 2007
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/RTLAofUS-07-04.doc
(NOTE: additional current (2008) efforts to pass state-level "Personhood" constitutional amendments
have been taken up in at least Michigan, Georgia, and Colorado)
"Personhood Song" - Artist: Tony Funderbunk (4:06 - audio link)
"Give an unborn baby personhood..."
www.coloradorighttolife.org/files/audio/personhood.mp3
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
George Mason, Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1787:
"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes nation sins, by national calamites."
America lost over 600,000 American lives in the War Between Americans (1861-1865) as a result of God's divine judgment on the national sin of America's institutionalized chattel slavery system
Just as God is already bringing incrementally greater divine judgment (e.g., 9-11, War in Iraq, ongoing Foreign Invasion by 12-20 Million Illegal Aliens, etc., etc., etc.) upon America for our federal, state, and local government-protected, institutionalized system of child-murder in our 750 plus abortion centers and hospitals and doctors offices today. www.lifedynamics.com/DeathCamps/DeathCamps.cfm
AMERICA - A NATION UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT.
Psalm 33:12; Proverb 14:34; Psalm 9:17; 2 Kings 24:1-4; Jeremiah 19:3-5; Psalm 106:37-42
Foreign invasion (12-20 Million Illegal Aliens) and War (Iraq) are divine consequences upon a nation, any nation, for the shedding of innocent blood (e.g., 2 Kings 24:1-4)...
"If My people [Christians], which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [sins of commission and omission]; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation]."
2 Chronicles 7:14
FIFTH ANNUAL "REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT" OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE IN COLUMBIA, SC (since January 2003)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, South Steps, SC State House, Columbia, South Carolina
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-05.doc
"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."
Psalm 94:15, KJB
"America repent"
"Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet"
www.myspace.com/timjuillet
(scroll down to song in player window in upper right of home page)
No King but King Jesus! (Yeshua Messiah)
Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America’s Colonial Charters, State Constitutions, and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matt. 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 765-0916
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
http://www.lefemineforlife.net/
February 12, 2008
Where: Room 511, Blatt House Office Building
SC State House complex
Columbia, South Carolina
When: Thursday, February 14, at 9:00 AM
Legislative body: Constitutional Laws Subcommittee of the SC House Judiciary Committee:
www.scstatehouse.net/html-pages/housebios.html
Chair, Rep. Greg Delleney (R-Chester) - fgd@schouse.org
Rep Thad Viers (R-Myrtle Beach) - ViersT@schouse.org
Rep. Jim Harrison (R-Columbia) - HJU@schouse.org
Rep. Creighton Coleman (D-Winnsboro) - cbc@schouse.org
Rep. Fletcher Smith (R-Greenville) - FNS@schouse.org
Note: Both Rep. Delleney and Rep. Viers are co-sponsors of H.3284 (see below).
The Right to Life Act of SC vests legal personhood at fertilization with no exceptions, thereby invoking the constitutional protections of due process and equal protection for legal "person," thereby ending legalized abortion (child-murder) in South Carolina.
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm
H. 3284
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Davenport, Vick, Huggins, Bingham, Toole, Hamilton, Leach, Shoopman, G.M. Smith, Bedingfield, Simrill, Littlejohn, Owens, Rice, G. Brown, Barfield, M.A. Pitts, E.H. Pitts, Loftis, J.R. Smith, G.R. Smith, Weeks, Whitmire, Viers, Pinson, Talley, Mahaffey, Duncan, Mulvaney, Cato, Walker, Lowe, White, Spires and Delleney
"Article 5
Right to Life
Section 1-1-310. This article may be cited as the 'Right to Life Act of South Carolina'.
Section 1-1-320. The right to due process, whereby no person may be deprived of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law, and the right to equal protection of the laws, both of which rights are guaranteed
by Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of this State, vest at fertilization."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
_________________________________________________
_________________________________________________
HISTORY OF "RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SOUTH CAROLINA":
The Right to Life Act of SC "Personhood" Bill was first introduced in the SC House in Feb 1998 (www.scstatehouse.net/sess112_1997-1998/bills/4558.htm), and was also first introduced in the SC Senate in Feb 1998 (www.scstatehouse.net/sess112_1997-1998/bills/1060.htm).
The first public hearing was in 2001, when it failed at the House Subcommittee level. The next hearing was in 2004, when it passed the House Subcommittee, but then failed at the full House Judiciary Committee.
In April 2005, the bill (H.3213) passed the full SC House on Second Reading ( 95Y-18N ) for the first time on April 13, 2005 (www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/hj05/20050413.htm), albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment, and on Third Reading ( 91Y-10N ) on April 14, 2005 (www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/hj05/20050414.htm). Any "exceptions" to legal "personhood" fatally undermine the legal concept of "personhood" as contained in the SC Constitution, and in the US Constitution, in the 5th and 14th Amendments. The bill (H.3213/S.111) was given two hearings in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee in May 2005 (for the first time on the SC Senate side), but no action was taken. No hearings or further action took place in the 2006 Session.
The SC House (H.3284) and SC Senate (S.313) bills were re-filed in 2007, but no hearings took place in either the SC House or SC Senate in 2007.
Go to homepage of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, click on "RTL Act of SC" page for history of bill's progress since April 2005. Also, go to: http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
2005/2006 Session
Go to homepage of http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ to hear these audio files of the testimony and discussion in committee meetings conducted in April/May 2005:
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 18, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Audio (36:09) - Public hearing, no debate or vote
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 4, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Audio (40:50) - Public hearing, no debate or vote
SC House Judiciary Committee, April 5, 2005 - H.3213
Audio (38:33) - Following debate, bill passed favorably by vote of 15 - 5 (roll call)
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm
www.scstatehouse.net/sess116_2005-2006/bills/111.htm
Legal Opinion (2005) of South Carolina Attorney General on the Right to Life Act of SC
"Accordingly, it is our opinion that the Right to Life Act is constitutional."
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/Westlaw_Document_15_03_35_5392471.doc
From the very text of the Roe v. Wade decision - if "personhood" for the fetus is established (with no "exceptions") then the legal argument for abortion "collapses":
Right to Life Act of SC - news conference and "Jesus Christ is Lord of the Gates" pro-life rally - Jan. 17, 2006
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/H3213-S111-1032.doc
In the very text of the Roe v. Wade US supreme Court decision it states, “[Texas] argue[s] that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment… If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [pro-abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” In other words, there never would have been legalized abortion under Roe v. Wade. But tragically, Texas had an “exception” which undermined their entire “personhood” argument. Justice Harry Blackmun wrote: “[ Footnote 54 ] When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. Despite broad proscription, an exception always exists… But if the fetus is a person who is not to be deprived of life without due process of law, and if the mother's condition is the sole determinant, does not the Texas exception appear to be out of line with the Amendment's command? ...” http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
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The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal “personhood” at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 35 years ago. The issue of legal “Personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 35 year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
2007 State-Level Bills Banning Abortions in Eight U.S. States
- AL, CO, GA, MT, ND, SC, TX, VA (16% of States in U.S.)
Revised and updated as of March 29, 2007
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/RTLAofUS-07-04.doc
(NOTE: additional current (2008) efforts to pass state-level "Personhood" constitutional amendments
have been taken up in at least Michigan, Georgia, and Colorado)
"Personhood Song" - Artist: Tony Funderbunk (4:06 - audio link)
"Give an unborn baby personhood..."
www.coloradorighttolife.org/files/audio/personhood.mp3
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George Mason, Virginia delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1787:
"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes nation sins, by national calamites."
America lost over 600,000 American lives in the War Between Americans (1861-1865) as a result of God's divine judgment on the national sin of America's institutionalized chattel slavery system
Just as God is already bringing incrementally greater divine judgment (e.g., 9-11, War in Iraq, ongoing Foreign Invasion by 12-20 Million Illegal Aliens, etc., etc., etc.) upon America for our federal, state, and local government-protected, institutionalized system of child-murder in our 750 plus abortion centers and hospitals and doctors offices today. www.lifedynamics.com/DeathCamps/DeathCamps.cfm
AMERICA - A NATION UNDER DIVINE JUDGMENT.
Psalm 33:12; Proverb 14:34; Psalm 9:17; 2 Kings 24:1-4; Jeremiah 19:3-5; Psalm 106:37-42
Foreign invasion (12-20 Million Illegal Aliens) and War (Iraq) are divine consequences upon a nation, any nation, for the shedding of innocent blood (e.g., 2 Kings 24:1-4)...
"If My people [Christians], which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [sins of commission and omission]; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation]."
2 Chronicles 7:14
FIFTH ANNUAL "REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT" OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE IN COLUMBIA, SC (since January 2003)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, South Steps, SC State House, Columbia, South Carolina
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-05.doc
"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."
Psalm 94:15, KJB
"America repent"
"Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet"
www.myspace.com/timjuillet
(scroll down to song in player window in upper right of home page)
No King but King Jesus! (Yeshua Messiah)
Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America’s Colonial Charters, State Constitutions, and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matt. 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 765-0916
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
http://www.lefemineforlife.net/
February 12, 2008
December 27, 2007
December 18, 2007
REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT - OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE - Columbia, SC - Sunday, January 20, 2008
CCL Press Release
December 18, 2007
REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT - OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE
State House, Columbia, SC - Sunday, 3-4 PM, January 20, 2008
Reports from last year's January 21, 2007 "Repentance For Bloodguilt" Outdoor Worship Service:
FIFTH ANNUAL "REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT" OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE IN COLUMBIA, SC
(since January 2003)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, South Steps, SC State House, Columbia, South Carolina
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-05.doc
REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE - Program
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-01.doc
REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE - Psalm 51 (KJB)
Confession and Forgiveness of Sin
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-03.doc
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December 18, 2007
REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT - OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE
State House, Columbia, SC - Sunday, 3-4 PM, January 20, 2008
Reports from last year's January 21, 2007 "Repentance For Bloodguilt" Outdoor Worship Service:
FIFTH ANNUAL "REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT" OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE IN COLUMBIA, SC
(since January 2003)
Sunday, January 21, 2007, South Steps, SC State House, Columbia, South Carolina
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-05.doc
REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE - Program
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-01.doc
REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE - Psalm 51 (KJB)
Confession and Forgiveness of Sin
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/REP07-03.doc
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REPENTANCE FOR BLOODGUILT
OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE
Sunday, January 20, 2008
3:00 - 4:00 PM
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR RELEASE: Tuesday, December 18, 2007
FOR FURTHER INFO: Contact, Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life, CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net ,
(803) 765-0916; PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
A call to Christian pro-life men, women, young adults, and children to a time of repentance, prayer, praise, worship, and declaration of God’s Word as we:
1) Repent and ask the Lord’s forgiveness for our corporate bloodguiltiness. Bloodguilt is upon us, our city, our state, and all its inhabitants (Jeremiah 26:15), especially the Church (2 Chronicles 7:14), which has failed to love her unborn neighbors as herself, for the over 317,000 unborn children (1973-2005) who have been murdered by surgical abortion alone on South Carolina soil since the wicked and unconstitutional Roe v. Wade supreme Court decision of 1973, and probably several times more that number aborted chemically by birth control that is abortifacient (including BCP's). Their shed innocent blood pollutes the very ground of our city and state (Numbers 35:33), and cries out to God for divine vengeance and recompensation (Genesis 4:10).
2) Beseech the Lord, end completely the sin of shedding innocent blood in the city of Columbia, and in South Carolina, not by our might and power, but by His Spirit, as HE is already doing, having already closed at least four abortion centers in the Columbia area and six other abortion centers in our state (Psalm 24:7-10; Matthew 16:18; Genesis 22:17).
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
SC State House, south steps
(facing Pendleton St., between Sumter and Assembly Streets)
“If My people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14
“So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.”
Numbers 35:33
"Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and daughters,…
and the land was polluted with blood.
Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against His people,
insomuch that He abhorred His own inheritance.
And He gave them into the hand of the heathen;
and they that hated them rules over them.
Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
Many times did He deliver them; but they provoked Him with their counsel,
and were brought low for their iniquity.
Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, when He heard their cry:"
Psalm 106:37-44
“... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Matthew 16:18
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If child-murder-by-abortion were to end today in America, there would still remain the need to REPENT for all the innocent blood which has been already shed.
Bloodshed following bloodshed (e.g., gang, domestic, and school violence), foreign invasion (e.g., 11 to 20 million illegal Mexican and other aliens through our intentionally undefended southern border), and our nation being turned over to tyranny, are all scripturally predictable consequences of our ongoing murder of innocent children in the wombs of their mothers.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE SHEDDING OF INNOCENT BLOOD IS THE CAUSE OF THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INVASION, THE CAUSE OF THE THREAT OF ISLAMO-FASCISM,AND THE CAUSE OF BEING TURNED OVER TO WICKED, CORRUPT RULERS IN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT (INCLUDING NAFTA, GATT/WTO, the UN, NAU, NWO, etc.), AS DIVINE JUDGEMENTS FROM GOD HIMSELF !!!
Read Hosea 4:2; Ezekiel 35:4-6, 2 Kings 24:1-4; and Psalm 106:37-44
But we have blind leaders being followed by a blind people in America, and it is neither a Church nor Civil Government priority to bring child-murder to an end... when it could be ended in a week, because Congress has the power to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the US Supreme Court ! Just listen to the Legislative Priorities of both State and Federal leaders, both legislative and executive, and you will see there is a normally a total absence of even any mention of the murder of 3,000 plus pre-birth human beings PER DAY in America. The level of blindness is astounding. And it's the same in the Church - which is actually more responsible and culpable than civil government. The Church is both the problem and the answer to ending child-murder in America.National Right to Life and the Republican Party are wrong. The composition of the US Supreme Court is not what has to change to end abortion. If the Christians of America would simply read Article III., Section 2. of their own national covenant, the US Constitution, perhaps they would understand that Congress and the President have had the power to end abortion in America in a week's time, for now almost 34 years !
US House limits jurisdiction of Federal Courts regarding the Pledge of Allegiance Employs Article III., Section 2. constitutional power of the US Congress to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the US supreme Court:
This same Article III., Section 2. constitutional power of the US Congress to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the US supreme Court can be further applied to protect the God-ordained institution of marriage, to protect state-level laws banning acts of sodomy, to protect federal and state laws banning abortion, and to protect the freedom of religious expression that is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, vis-a-vis public displays of the Ten Commandments, and public prayer in the Name of Jesus.
PRESIDENT BUSH and CONGRESS COULD END ABORTION IN AMERICA IN ONE WEEK:
President Bush and the US Congress have the power NOW to end abortion in America in one week:
Pass HR 552, the "Right to Life Act", amended with the addition of the Article III., Section 2. power of the US Congress in the US Constitution to limit the appellate jurisdiction of the US supreme Court, and the complete jurisdiction of the lower federal courts (US District Courts and US Circuit Courts of Appeal, which were created by Congress by federal statute, and could even be eliminated by Congress by federal statute, let alone have their jurisdictions limited).
[ see HR 552 and HR 776, 109th Congress, at http://thomas.loc.gov ]
The Article III., Section 2. legal strategy espoused in the article above is embodied in HR 2597, the Sanctity of Life Act of 2007, sponsored by US Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas). Congressman Paul's bill would vest "fetal" legal "personhood" at conception ("fertilization" would be a better, more precise term), and invoke the Article III., Section 2. power of Congress to remove appellate jurisdiction from the US Supreme Court, meaning they could not overturn it. Although Ron Paul's campaign position is to return the abortion-decision making power to the states, I actually believe that if HR 2597 were passed into law, that it would effectively, eventually, end abortion in America, because of three reasons: 1) the vesting of legal "personhood" by Congress, 2) the principle of the supremacy of federal laws, and 3) the Article III., Section 2. provision that would remove the bill from the US Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction, and thereby preventing them from even reviewing it (hearing a case on it), much less overturning it.
CURRENT Bills in the 2007-2008 (110th) United States Congress:
The Article III., Section 2. legal strategy espoused in the article above is also embodied in HR 300, the We the People Act of 2007, sponsored by US Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas).
Congressman Paul's bill would return to the States their Sovereign Rights to:
- Acknowledge God
(issues related to prayer in Jesus' Name, and posting of the Ten Commandments),
- Ban Child-Murder-By-Abortion
- Ban Sodomy (not just ban sodomite couplings, "marriage," and "civil unions")
See HR 300 at http://thomas.loc.gov - check the list of co-sponsors, if your US House member is not a co-sponsor, contact and ask them to sign on as a co-sponsor to HR 300. Ask both of your US Senate members to introduce a bill in the US Senate similar to HR 300 in the US House.
"Where there is no vision, the people perish:..." Proverb 29:18
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
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