- 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
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.
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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
"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
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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.
"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
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.
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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
"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
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
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
____________________________________________________________________________________
If you would like to support the ministry efforts of Columbia Christians for Life to Establish Justice for the Unborn, please consider sending a financial gift.
To donate to Columbia Christians for Life:
Two methods -
1. Please make checks to:
Columbia Christians for Life (CCL)
P.O. Box 50358
Columbia, SC 29250
(not tax deductible)
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]
July 20, 2007
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.
And the SC Legislature does not plan to reconvene until January 2008, unless called in for other pressing matters by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston)) and the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Rep. Bobby Harrell (R-Charleston)) which, according to the Sine Die resolution, apparently does not include doing anything to stop the ongoing slaughter of over 550 pre-birth children per month in South Carolina. (Note: SC's largest killing center is in Charleston).
The Right to Life Act of SC is a bill perennially active in the SC Legislature which if passed by the Republicans who control the SC House, SC Senate, and SC Governor's office, would recognize the God-given 'personhood' of all human beings at fertilization, and thus, according to the words of the Roe v. Wade (1973) decision itself, would 'collapse' the legal argument propping up the evil, barbaric practice of abortion (child-murder). The very text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision 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.”
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
Remember, it was a Texas law that was overturned in the Roe v. Wade case. Because the State of Texas had not established fetal 'personhood' and they had a life of the mother 'exception,' for the last 34+ years now, we have had over 47 Million dead (http://www.ldi.org/) by surgical abortion alone, not counting all the chemical abortions by Birth Control Pills, Depo-Provera, Plan B, ad nauseam.
The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal 'personhood' at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 34 years ago !!! The issue of legal “personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 34+ year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
The Right to Life of SC has been introduced in the SC Legislature every year since 1998:
http://www.scstatehouse.net/
1998 (H.4558 / S.1060); 1999-2000 (H.3135); 2001-2002 (H.3252); 2003-2004 (H.3190); 2005-2006 (H.3213 / S.111); and 2007-2008 (H.3284 / S.313).
The Republicans have continuously been in the majority in the SC House since Jan. 1995, i.e., for now thirteen ( 13 ) annual legislative sessions (1995-2007).
The Republicans have continuously been in the majority in the SC Senate since Jan. 2001, i.e., for now seven ( 7 ) annual legislative sessions (2001-2007).
OVER 317,000 SURGICAL ABORTIONS COMMITTED IN SC, 1973-2005
South Carolina 2005 Abortion Statistics:
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/STATS-AB-05.doc
Total reported child-murders-by-surgical-abortion in 2005:
6,715 (increase of 150 abortions compared to 2004)
Abortions committed at Charleston abortion center:
(located near Charles Towne Landing)
2,797 (decrease of 38 abortions compared to 2004)
Abortions committed at Greenville abortion center:
(located near Greenville Memorial Hospital)
2,425 (increase of 66 abortions compared to 2004)
Abortions committed at Columbia abortion center:
(located in Middleburg Park, off Forest Drive)
1,460 (increase of 125 abortions compared to 2004)
Abortions committed in ‘hospitals’ statewide:
33 (MUSC-10, Greenville Hospital System-17, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System 4, Piedmont Medical Center-2)
(decrease of 3 abortions reported compared to 2004)
The Right to Life Act passed the SC House, albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment for the abortifacient Plan B so-called 'morning-after' pills, in April 2005, and then was killed in 2006 in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, with four of the five State Senators eligible to vote on the bill being Republicans. The Judiciary Committee Subcommittee was chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg), and included Senate President Pro-Tempore Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), who is also the SC Senate full Judiciary Committee Chairman.
2007/2008 Session -
H.3284 - http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm
(35 co-sponsors, 32-R, 3-D, in the 124-member (72-R, 51-D, 1 vacancy) SC House)
S.313 - http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/313.htm
(10 co-sponsors, 9-R, 1-D, in the 46-member (25-R, 19-D, 2 vacancies) SC Senate)
2005/2006 Session -
Audio files available on-line, homepage of www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 18, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Public hearing, no debate or vote (36:09)
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 4, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Public hearing, no debate or vote (40:50)
SC House Judiciary Committee, April 5, 2005 - H.3213
Following debate, bill passed favorably by vote of 15 - 5 (roll call) (38:33)
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These State bills are a mix of 'Personhood,' 100% Abortion Ban, and life of the mother exception bills. However, when it comes to banning abortion, 'exceptions' are unbiblical (Exodus 20:13) and unconstitutional.
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
(Update: at least Ohio should also be added to this list)
www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=127_HB_284
_________________________________________________
The Bible explains that Foreign Invasion (12-20 Million Illegal Aliens) and War (Iraq) are divine judgments on nations which shed innocent bloodwithout rendering Justice to the Murderers. God requires Justice, and will recompense in blood those nations which refuse (Numbers 35:33).
2 Kings 24:1-4
How long will it take even ONE State Legislature (or the U.S. Congress) to do the one simple thing that has been staring us in the face off the pages of the Roe v. Wade decision for over 34 years, i.e., legislatively declaring legal 'personhood' at fertilization, without exception ? ! ? ! ? !
The Father speaking to His messenger, the prophet Isaiah:
"And He said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not."
"Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed."
Then said I, Lord, how long ? And He answered, Until the cities be wastedwithout inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,..."
Isaiah 6:9-11
Will that be when America finally bans government-protected child-murder in the womb, when "the cities be wasted..., and the land be utterly desolate" ?
George Mason, Virginia delegate, August 22, 1787, in the Constitutional Convention:
('Father of the Bill of Rights,' with Patrick Henry)
"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 calamities."
Just as the national sin of American slavery brought God's judgmentof war upon both the North and South in 1861, so is the national sin of child-murder-by-abortion bringing war, terrorism, domestic violence, foreign invasion, etc., as divine judgments upon our wicked nation today.
Child-murder-by-abortion is a national sin. 9-11 was a national calamity. More and greater divine judgment is coming upon America, unless we repent of the national sin of abortion. If we will not repent of the national sin of abortion, then the America of today will be destroyed, just as God destroyed the kingdom of Judah, with successive waves of foreign invasion in 605 BC, 597 BC, and 586 BC (2 Kings, chapters 24 and 25). We've already been attacked on September 11, 2001. What will it be next, America ? What will it be next, Church ? Repentance finally, or further and greater divine judgment ?
As has been said, it's now Christ or Chaos (then Tyranny) for America ...
Repent, Church ! Repent, America !
News Conference hosted by Columbia Christians for Life and Voice of the Unborn
Speakers at News Conference (not attended by print or broadcast Media):
Mr. Charles Butler, pastor, Souls Afire Baptist Church, Orangeburg, SC
Steve Lefemine, director, Columbia Christians for Life, Columbia, SC
Johnny Gardner, director, Voice of the Unborn, Columbia, SC
Miss Kim Hendrix
SC Carolina State House
First Floor Lobby
( between offices of Governor Mark Sanford (R) and Lt Governor Andre Bauer (R) )
Columbia, South Carolina
May 31, 2007
_________________________________________________
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
'JESUS IS PRO-LIFE' NEWS CONFERENCE
Thursday, May 31, 2007, 11:00 AM: First Floor, SC State House, Columbia, SC
Re: ‘Right to Life Act of South Carolina’ [H.3284 / S.313 / www.sc.statehouse.net]
Statement by Steve Lefemine, dir. Columbia Christians for Life:
( www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net )
Good morning, as the 2007 Session ends next week, this is a report on the status of the Right to Life Act of SC, a constitutional bill to ban abortion, not just regulate it, that was first introduced in SC's House and Senate over nine years ago in February 1998. The bill was re-introduced in both the House (H.3284) and Senate (S.313) in January this year, but unfortunately, neither bill has had a public hearing. This despite the fact that the bill passed the SC House on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95-18 on Second Reading, albeit with a 'fatal flaw' rape exception amendment. Abortion could have been ended over 34 years ago in 1973 by establishing the legal 'personhood' of pre-birth human beings, without any so-called 'exceptions,' as plainly stated in the very text of the Roe v. Wade decision itself. However thus far, our SC Legislature and Governor have refused to do so. I call on the Republican-majority SC House (73 R - 51 D), the Republican-majority SC Senate (24 R - 20 D w/ two vacancies, formerly Republican), and the Republican SC Governor to do their civil duty and prevent the shedding of innocent blood by passing the RTL Act of SC. The number of pre-birth children murdered by surgical abortion alone in SC increased to over 6,700 in 2005, or 129 per week, primarily in three abortion centers, in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston. That's four times the number of victims murdered in the VA Tech massacre on April 16th. About 3,300 are surgically aborted every day in the USA.
As I have said before to SC Legislators, according to the Bible, two of God's end-game judgments upon nations that shed innocent blood are Foreign Invasion and War. Referring to the invasion in 605 BC upon the ancient nation of Judah, which eventually led to the burning of Jerusalem and its Temple in 586 BC, and the death or captivity of thousands of Judah's inhabitants, the Bible says in 2 Kings 24:1-4 [excerpts]: www.kingjamesbible.com/B12C024.htm
"In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up,..."
"And the LORD... sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets."
"Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;"
"And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon."
Our US Senate is debating an Immigration Bill that would grant instant legal status, Instant Amnesty, to 12-20 Million foreigners who have illegally entered our country. Does this not count as a form of invasion ? How about the attack on 9-11 by Muslim invaders sent by Osama Bin Laden, who is to this day still headquartered, not in Iraq, but Afghanistan? It is God alone Who can bring peace, safety, and security to our land, as seen in Levitcus 26: 5,6. Conversely, the Bible also teaches it is God Who sends enemies against nations which become exceedingly wicked.
Yes, the Bible shows us that Foreign Invasion and War are two of God's 'end-game' judgments upon wicked nations that shed innocent blood, as the US has done for over 34 years, murdering over 47 Million babies by surgical abortion, and more than that by abortifacient birth control. Furthermore, as was said years ago, it is either Christ or Chaos for America. If we continue to reject God's moral law in our lives and our nation, we will see a growing chaos, that willthen lead to tyranny in the form of the loss of our God-given, constitutionally-protected civil liberties, at the hand of our own government (e.g., presidential declaration of a 'national emergency'). After all, the Illuminati motto 'Ordo Ab Chao' means 'Order Out of Chaos." This process has already begun. We reap what we sow. We have not responded as we should to the cries of our unborn neighbors. We have let over 317,000 of them be slaughtered in SC (1973-2005). God has heard their cries, vengeance is His, and He will repay us for refusing to love the unborn as we love ourselves, and to do all we can to rescue them from slaughter, using our time, talents, and treasure.
During this 2007 legislative session that ends next week, instead of Establishing Justice for pre-birth children by passing the RTL Act, SC's House and Senate have been passing the Ultrasound bill (H.3355); yet one more bill in a long series of bills stretching back to at least 1990 in this state, to incrementally regulate the murder of pre-birth children in their mother's wombs. To which I say, God's requirement for Murder is JUSTICE, not Regulation. This Ultrasound bill has been a hindrance, obstruction, and distraction from a proper focus on principled abortion-ban legislation like the RTL Act. As Oswald Chambers' devotional entitled "My Utmost For His Highest" says, in so many words, 'Good' is the enemy of God's 'best.' The Ultrasound bill has been the enemy of the RTL Act. Thankfully, Johnny Gardner and I have been informed that after the Ultrasound bill is over, we will be granted a public hearing for the RTL Act early next year. Still, over 3,900 more SC children will be slaughtered between now and the start of the 2008 Legislative session. Their blood will cry out for vengeance, and SC's cup of wrath will continue to fill.
Judgment begins in the house of God. It is way past time for the Bible-believing Church in America to Repent. Though we are sorely unworthy, may God in His growing wrath upon the Church and America, remember mercy. But let us remember, that without Judgment, there can be no Mercy. Let's Establish Justice for pre-birth humans !
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Prophetic witness after News Conference:
Steve Lefemine
Amos Pressley
Anne Rainville
SC Carolina State House
Second Floor Lobby
( entrance to SC Senate in the background )
Columbia, South Carolina
May 31, 2007
___________________________________________
No King but King Jesus! (Y'shua !)
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
Consider the Statement of Purpose of the National Reform Association (organized in 1864):
www.natreformassn.org/purpose.html
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matt. 16:18
Y'shua Messiah
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, South Carolina
(803) 765-0916
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
July 19, 2007
___________________________________________
If you would like to support the ministry efforts of Columbia Christians for Life or Voice of the Unborn, please consider sending a financial gift.
To donate to Columbia Christians for Life ministry expenses (not tax deductible):
Two methods -
1. Please make checks to:
"Columbia Christians for Life"
P.O. Box 50358
Columbia, SC 29250
2. Or, if you are a PayPal member (http://www.paypal.com/), you may also send CCL ministry donations to:
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
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To donate to Voice of the Unborn (not tax deductible):
Please make checks to:
"Voice of the Unborn"
120 Amsterdam Drive, #G
Columbia, SC 29210
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.
And the SC Legislature does not plan to reconvene until January 2008, unless called in for other pressing matters by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston)) and the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Rep. Bobby Harrell (R-Charleston)) which, according to the Sine Die resolution, apparently does not include doing anything to stop the ongoing slaughter of over 550 pre-birth children per month in South Carolina. (Note: SC's largest killing center is in Charleston).
The Right to Life Act of SC is a bill perennially active in the SC Legislature which if passed by the Republicans who control the SC House, SC Senate, and SC Governor's office, would recognize the God-given 'personhood' of all human beings at fertilization, and thus, according to the words of the Roe v. Wade (1973) decision itself, would 'collapse' the legal argument propping up the evil, barbaric practice of abortion (child-murder). The very text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision 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.”
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113
Remember, it was a Texas law that was overturned in the Roe v. Wade case. Because the State of Texas had not established fetal 'personhood' and they had a life of the mother 'exception,' for the last 34+ years now, we have had over 47 Million dead (http://www.ldi.org/) by surgical abortion alone, not counting all the chemical abortions by Birth Control Pills, Depo-Provera, Plan B, ad nauseam.
The Right to Life Act of SC, in statutorily vesting legal 'personhood' at fertilization for ALL human beings, satisifies the Roe formula published 34 years ago !!! The issue of legal “personhood” for ALL human beings, without exception, is a key to unlocking the 34+ year old Roe v. Wade abortion enigma.
The Right to Life of SC has been introduced in the SC Legislature every year since 1998:
http://www.scstatehouse.net/
1998 (H.4558 / S.1060); 1999-2000 (H.3135); 2001-2002 (H.3252); 2003-2004 (H.3190); 2005-2006 (H.3213 / S.111); and 2007-2008 (H.3284 / S.313).
The Republicans have continuously been in the majority in the SC House since Jan. 1995, i.e., for now thirteen ( 13 ) annual legislative sessions (1995-2007).
The Republicans have continuously been in the majority in the SC Senate since Jan. 2001, i.e., for now seven ( 7 ) annual legislative sessions (2001-2007).
OVER 317,000 SURGICAL ABORTIONS COMMITTED IN SC, 1973-2005
South Carolina 2005 Abortion Statistics:
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/STATS-AB-05.doc
Total reported child-murders-by-surgical-abortion in 2005:
6,715 (increase of 150 abortions compared to 2004)
Abortions committed at Charleston abortion center:
(located near Charles Towne Landing)
2,797 (decrease of 38 abortions compared to 2004)
Abortions committed at Greenville abortion center:
(located near Greenville Memorial Hospital)
2,425 (increase of 66 abortions compared to 2004)
Abortions committed at Columbia abortion center:
(located in Middleburg Park, off Forest Drive)
1,460 (increase of 125 abortions compared to 2004)
Abortions committed in ‘hospitals’ statewide:
33 (MUSC-10, Greenville Hospital System-17, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System 4, Piedmont Medical Center-2)
(decrease of 3 abortions reported compared to 2004)
The Right to Life Act passed the SC House, albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception amendment for the abortifacient Plan B so-called 'morning-after' pills, in April 2005, and then was killed in 2006 in a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, with four of the five State Senators eligible to vote on the bill being Republicans. The Judiciary Committee Subcommittee was chaired by Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg), and included Senate President Pro-Tempore Senator Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), who is also the SC Senate full Judiciary Committee Chairman.
2007/2008 Session -
H.3284 - http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm
(35 co-sponsors, 32-R, 3-D, in the 124-member (72-R, 51-D, 1 vacancy) SC House)
S.313 - http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/313.htm
(10 co-sponsors, 9-R, 1-D, in the 46-member (25-R, 19-D, 2 vacancies) SC Senate)
2005/2006 Session -
Audio files available on-line, homepage of www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 18, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Public hearing, no debate or vote (36:09)
SC Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, May 4, 2005 - S.111/H.3213
Public hearing, no debate or vote (40:50)
SC House Judiciary Committee, April 5, 2005 - H.3213
Following debate, bill passed favorably by vote of 15 - 5 (roll call) (38:33)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
These State bills are a mix of 'Personhood,' 100% Abortion Ban, and life of the mother exception bills. However, when it comes to banning abortion, 'exceptions' are unbiblical (Exodus 20:13) and unconstitutional.
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
(Update: at least Ohio should also be added to this list)
www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=127_HB_284
_________________________________________________
The Bible explains that Foreign Invasion (12-20 Million Illegal Aliens) and War (Iraq) are divine judgments on nations which shed innocent bloodwithout rendering Justice to the Murderers. God requires Justice, and will recompense in blood those nations which refuse (Numbers 35:33).
2 Kings 24:1-4
How long will it take even ONE State Legislature (or the U.S. Congress) to do the one simple thing that has been staring us in the face off the pages of the Roe v. Wade decision for over 34 years, i.e., legislatively declaring legal 'personhood' at fertilization, without exception ? ! ? ! ? !
The Father speaking to His messenger, the prophet Isaiah:
"And He said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not."
"Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes;lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed."
Then said I, Lord, how long ? And He answered, Until the cities be wastedwithout inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,..."
Isaiah 6:9-11
Will that be when America finally bans government-protected child-murder in the womb, when "the cities be wasted..., and the land be utterly desolate" ?
George Mason, Virginia delegate, August 22, 1787, in the Constitutional Convention:
('Father of the Bill of Rights,' with Patrick Henry)
"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 calamities."
Just as the national sin of American slavery brought God's judgmentof war upon both the North and South in 1861, so is the national sin of child-murder-by-abortion bringing war, terrorism, domestic violence, foreign invasion, etc., as divine judgments upon our wicked nation today.
Child-murder-by-abortion is a national sin. 9-11 was a national calamity. More and greater divine judgment is coming upon America, unless we repent of the national sin of abortion. If we will not repent of the national sin of abortion, then the America of today will be destroyed, just as God destroyed the kingdom of Judah, with successive waves of foreign invasion in 605 BC, 597 BC, and 586 BC (2 Kings, chapters 24 and 25). We've already been attacked on September 11, 2001. What will it be next, America ? What will it be next, Church ? Repentance finally, or further and greater divine judgment ?
As has been said, it's now Christ or Chaos (then Tyranny) for America ...
Repent, Church ! Repent, America !
________________________________________________
'JESUS IS PRO-LIFE' NEWS CONFERENCE - Columbia, South CarolinaNews Conference hosted by Columbia Christians for Life and Voice of the Unborn
Speakers at News Conference (not attended by print or broadcast Media):
Mr. Charles Butler, pastor, Souls Afire Baptist Church, Orangeburg, SC
Steve Lefemine, director, Columbia Christians for Life, Columbia, SC
Johnny Gardner, director, Voice of the Unborn, Columbia, SC
Miss Kim Hendrix
SC Carolina State House
First Floor Lobby
( between offices of Governor Mark Sanford (R) and Lt Governor Andre Bauer (R) )
Columbia, South Carolina
May 31, 2007
_________________________________________________
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
'JESUS IS PRO-LIFE' NEWS CONFERENCE
Thursday, May 31, 2007, 11:00 AM: First Floor, SC State House, Columbia, SC
Re: ‘Right to Life Act of South Carolina’ [H.3284 / S.313 / www.sc.statehouse.net]
Statement by Steve Lefemine, dir. Columbia Christians for Life:
( www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net )
Good morning, as the 2007 Session ends next week, this is a report on the status of the Right to Life Act of SC, a constitutional bill to ban abortion, not just regulate it, that was first introduced in SC's House and Senate over nine years ago in February 1998. The bill was re-introduced in both the House (H.3284) and Senate (S.313) in January this year, but unfortunately, neither bill has had a public hearing. This despite the fact that the bill passed the SC House on April 13, 2005 by a vote of 95-18 on Second Reading, albeit with a 'fatal flaw' rape exception amendment. Abortion could have been ended over 34 years ago in 1973 by establishing the legal 'personhood' of pre-birth human beings, without any so-called 'exceptions,' as plainly stated in the very text of the Roe v. Wade decision itself. However thus far, our SC Legislature and Governor have refused to do so. I call on the Republican-majority SC House (73 R - 51 D), the Republican-majority SC Senate (24 R - 20 D w/ two vacancies, formerly Republican), and the Republican SC Governor to do their civil duty and prevent the shedding of innocent blood by passing the RTL Act of SC. The number of pre-birth children murdered by surgical abortion alone in SC increased to over 6,700 in 2005, or 129 per week, primarily in three abortion centers, in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston. That's four times the number of victims murdered in the VA Tech massacre on April 16th. About 3,300 are surgically aborted every day in the USA.
As I have said before to SC Legislators, according to the Bible, two of God's end-game judgments upon nations that shed innocent blood are Foreign Invasion and War. Referring to the invasion in 605 BC upon the ancient nation of Judah, which eventually led to the burning of Jerusalem and its Temple in 586 BC, and the death or captivity of thousands of Judah's inhabitants, the Bible says in 2 Kings 24:1-4 [excerpts]: www.kingjamesbible.com/B12C024.htm
"In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up,..."
"And the LORD... sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets."
"Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;"
"And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon."
Our US Senate is debating an Immigration Bill that would grant instant legal status, Instant Amnesty, to 12-20 Million foreigners who have illegally entered our country. Does this not count as a form of invasion ? How about the attack on 9-11 by Muslim invaders sent by Osama Bin Laden, who is to this day still headquartered, not in Iraq, but Afghanistan? It is God alone Who can bring peace, safety, and security to our land, as seen in Levitcus 26: 5,6. Conversely, the Bible also teaches it is God Who sends enemies against nations which become exceedingly wicked.
Yes, the Bible shows us that Foreign Invasion and War are two of God's 'end-game' judgments upon wicked nations that shed innocent blood, as the US has done for over 34 years, murdering over 47 Million babies by surgical abortion, and more than that by abortifacient birth control. Furthermore, as was said years ago, it is either Christ or Chaos for America. If we continue to reject God's moral law in our lives and our nation, we will see a growing chaos, that willthen lead to tyranny in the form of the loss of our God-given, constitutionally-protected civil liberties, at the hand of our own government (e.g., presidential declaration of a 'national emergency'). After all, the Illuminati motto 'Ordo Ab Chao' means 'Order Out of Chaos." This process has already begun. We reap what we sow. We have not responded as we should to the cries of our unborn neighbors. We have let over 317,000 of them be slaughtered in SC (1973-2005). God has heard their cries, vengeance is His, and He will repay us for refusing to love the unborn as we love ourselves, and to do all we can to rescue them from slaughter, using our time, talents, and treasure.
During this 2007 legislative session that ends next week, instead of Establishing Justice for pre-birth children by passing the RTL Act, SC's House and Senate have been passing the Ultrasound bill (H.3355); yet one more bill in a long series of bills stretching back to at least 1990 in this state, to incrementally regulate the murder of pre-birth children in their mother's wombs. To which I say, God's requirement for Murder is JUSTICE, not Regulation. This Ultrasound bill has been a hindrance, obstruction, and distraction from a proper focus on principled abortion-ban legislation like the RTL Act. As Oswald Chambers' devotional entitled "My Utmost For His Highest" says, in so many words, 'Good' is the enemy of God's 'best.' The Ultrasound bill has been the enemy of the RTL Act. Thankfully, Johnny Gardner and I have been informed that after the Ultrasound bill is over, we will be granted a public hearing for the RTL Act early next year. Still, over 3,900 more SC children will be slaughtered between now and the start of the 2008 Legislative session. Their blood will cry out for vengeance, and SC's cup of wrath will continue to fill.
Judgment begins in the house of God. It is way past time for the Bible-believing Church in America to Repent. Though we are sorely unworthy, may God in His growing wrath upon the Church and America, remember mercy. But let us remember, that without Judgment, there can be no Mercy. Let's Establish Justice for pre-birth humans !
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Prophetic witness after News Conference:
Steve Lefemine
Amos Pressley
Anne Rainville
SC Carolina State House
Second Floor Lobby
( entrance to SC Senate in the background )
Columbia, South Carolina
May 31, 2007
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No King but King Jesus! (Y'shua !)
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
Consider the Statement of Purpose of the National Reform Association (organized in 1864):
www.natreformassn.org/purpose.html
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matt. 16:18
Y'shua Messiah
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, South Carolina
(803) 765-0916
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
July 19, 2007
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Two methods -
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P.O. Box 50358
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Please make checks to:
"Voice of the Unborn"
120 Amsterdam Drive, #G
Columbia, SC 29210
June 22, 2007
"In memory of the fallen" - Firefighters, rightly, Yes; Unborn, wrongly, No
Charleston Firefighter Rob Fulmer moved his thumb along the edge of a sticker affixed to the side of Engine #10 - smoothing it over and over and over until it was just so. The sticker reads, "In memory of the fallen."
www.thestate.com/136/story/99230.html / June 22, 2007
It is right to memorialize the brave and sacrificial lives of the nine Charleston firefighters who died in the line of duty on June 18, bravely protecting the city and saving the lives of two citizens caught in the blaze.
www.thestate.com/156/story/95778.html
An estimated 30,000 firefighters from around the country, plus thousands of other citizens attended the Memorial Service for these nine courageous men. As thousands lined the streets to pay their respects, about 100 fire trucks joined in a procession, past the furniture store fire scene and past Charleston fire houses, enroute to the North Charleston Coliseum where the nine caskets were displayed for the Memorial Service.
www.thestate.com/136/story/99197.html
www.thestate.com/312/story/99231.html
www.thestate.com/136/story/99230.html
www.charleston.net/news/2007/jun/21/color_guards_gathering_8_m_coliseum/
www.charleston.net/news/2007/jun/22/officials_offered_praise_during_memorial_service_f/
www.charleston.net/news/2007/jun/22/service_program/
Yet, just over a mile away, in the same "West Ashley" area just outside of Charleston, at the Charleston Women's "Medical" [child-murder/abortion] Center over 50 pre-birth children have/will likely die this week alone***, and who will memorialize the loss of their lives ? Who will even notice ? Can we admit that these murdered children are also human beings, are also 'persons,' worthy of being memorialized as well ?They had not had the opportunity to be born and perform brave deeds of courage,but were they not still "lives worthy of life" to be respected instead of slaughtered ?
www.antiabortionsigns.com/catalog.html
*** The Charleston Women's Medical Center reported murdering 2,797 pre-birth children in 2005 alone, according to SC DHEC figures. From 1988 to 2005, this abortion death camp has reported murdering from a minimum of 2,162 (in 1995) to a maximum of 2,835 (in 2004) pre-birth children each year, for a total of 46,540 CHILDREN MURDERED IN CHARLESTON'S WEST ASHLEY CHILD-MURDER-BY-ABORTION DEATH CAMP in just these 18 years -they have NEVER BEEN MEMORIALIZED in a manner commensurate with this holocaust.
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/STATS-AB4.DOC
Nine brave firefighters sacrificed their lives on Monday, June 18 while fighting a raging fire that was described as a "30-foot tornado of flames," and trying to save the lives of two employees at the Super Sofa Store, 1807 Savannah Highyway (US Rte 17), Charleston, South Carolina. It was the "worst single incident to claim U.S. firefighters" lives since the Sept. 11 attacks." (www.thestate.com/156/story/95778.html).
www.thestate.com/312/story/99231.html
The fire Monday night created the single largest loss of firefighters' lives since the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Beside the caskets, the faces of its victims looked out proudly from large photos: Capt. William "Billy" Hutchinson, 48; Capt. Mike Benke, 49; Capt. Louis Mulkey, 34; Mark Kelsey, 40; Bradford "Brad" Baity, 37; Michael French, 27; James "Earl" Drayton, 56; Brandon Thompson, 27; and Melvin Champaign, 46.
"We've lost over 100 years of service," said Charleston Fire Chief Rusty Thomas at a Tuesday afternoon press conference. "I lost nine of my best friends."
www.thestate.com/156/story/95778.html
These firefighters and rescuers were heroic in their efforts. One of the speakers at today's (June 22) Memorial Service said, "To save a human life is a necessity for a firefighter." Scripture references had been made to the words of Jesus about greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for his friends, and that whatsoever you do to the least of these My brothers, you do unto Me. So why are these same thoughts not also applied to the rescuing of the lives of the unborn being slaughtered just over a mile from where this tragic loss of nine lives occurred at the Super Sofa Store near the corner of the Savannah Highway (U.S. Rte 17) and Wappoo Road ?
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This is a schematic and map of the location of the Super Sofa Store:
www.charleston.net/photos/2007/jun/19/1087/
Sofa Super Store, 1807 Savannah Highway (Rte 17) near the intersection with Wappoo Rd.
(near SW corner of the intersection)
The location of the Charleston Women's "Medical" [sic] Center is available on MapQuest with a link from the abortion center's own website:
www.charlestonwomensmedicalcenter.com
Charleston Women's Medical Center (Child-murder-by-abortion center)1312 Ashley River Road (at intersection with Fuseler Rd.)
Charleston, SC 29407
www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&addtohistory=&address=
1312+ashley+river+rd.&city=charleston&state=sc&zipcode=&homesubmit=Get+Map
Zoom to level 10 to see both CWMC abortion mill and intersection of Savannah Hwy (US Rte 17) and Wappoo Road, near the location of the Super Sofa Store (street and aerial views) - approx.1.2 miles straight line distance between the abortion center and the furniture store
[The Charles Towne Landing State Park nearby is the site of the original first permanent European settlement in the Carolinas in 1670, later moving from West Ashley to the peninsula to establish the City of Charleston.]
The Charleston Women's Death Camp for Pre-birth Human Beings which has murdered over 46,000 children (1988-2005 alone) is just over one mile (straight line) from the site of Monday's tragedy where nine brave men lost their lives as protectors and rescuers. Who will protect and rescue the lives of the children being butchered on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays according to the CWMC's own website, on a weekly basis ?!!!
www.charlestonwomensmedicalcenter.com/appts.htm
For several years now, Voice of the Unborn director Johnny Gardner has been lobbying the SC Legislature for a suitable memorial to the Unborn who have lost their lives in our statebecause of the on going holocaust and tragedy of abortion. Over 317,000 children have been murdered from 1973-2005 in South Carolina by surgical abortion alone.
"JESUS is Pro-Life" Rally, SC State House, 12 noon, January 22, 2007
Voice of the Unborn, Johnny Gardner, Director - Letter
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/JOHN06-2.doc
Unborn Children's Monument Commission
H.3273
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3273.htm
Introduced in the House on January 17, 2007
Currently residing in the House Committee on Education and Public Works
A JOINT RESOLUTION
TO CREATE THE SOUTH CAROLINA UNBORN CHILDREN'S MONUMENT COMMISSION TO ERECT A MONUMENT ON THE STATE HOUSE GROUNDS AS A MEMORIAL TO SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN WHOSE LIVES ENDED BEFORE THEIR BIRTH AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION AND TO REQUIRE PRIVATE FUNDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THIS MONUMENT.
Mr. Mike Warren, Rochester, NY, minister and pro-life leader:
"True repentance is not possible until the truth regarding the need of repentance is comprehended."
How many Christians understand the Biblical doctrine of corporate bloodguilt,and therefore realize that all of us in America are stained with bloodguiltiness, as is the land itself ? How many pastors have the courage to preach it in the pulpit ?
(e.g., Deuteronomy 19:10, 13; Numbers 35:33; Deuteronomy 21:1-9; Jeremiah 26:15)
"If My people, which are called by My Name (born-again Christians), 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
Abortion in America can be ended in one week by passing H.R. 2597 and removing appellate jurisdiction from the U.S. Supreme Court, to prevent the overturn of this bill, which if passed would ban abortion nationwide
( see H.R. 2597, the Sanctity of Life Act of 2007 at http://thomas.loc.gov/ )
Abortion in each state can be ended by passing no exceptions fetal 'personhood'bills, similar to as H.3284, the Right to Life Act of SC; and/or by passing constitutional amendments, similar to HB 403 in the State of Montana
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/HB0403.htm
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.)
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/RTLAofUS-07-04.doc
Revised and updated as of March 29, 2007
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:..." Hosea 4:6a (KJB)
"Where there is no vision, the people perish..." Proverb 29:18a (KJB)
"...with God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26b (KJB) [State of Ohio motto]
"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Philippians 4:13 (KJB)
_____________________________________________
No King but King Jesus!
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
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
June 22, 2007
www.thestate.com/136/story/99230.html / June 22, 2007
It is right to memorialize the brave and sacrificial lives of the nine Charleston firefighters who died in the line of duty on June 18, bravely protecting the city and saving the lives of two citizens caught in the blaze.
www.thestate.com/156/story/95778.html
An estimated 30,000 firefighters from around the country, plus thousands of other citizens attended the Memorial Service for these nine courageous men. As thousands lined the streets to pay their respects, about 100 fire trucks joined in a procession, past the furniture store fire scene and past Charleston fire houses, enroute to the North Charleston Coliseum where the nine caskets were displayed for the Memorial Service.
www.thestate.com/136/story/99197.html
www.thestate.com/312/story/99231.html
www.thestate.com/136/story/99230.html
www.charleston.net/news/2007/jun/21/color_guards_gathering_8_m_coliseum/
www.charleston.net/news/2007/jun/22/officials_offered_praise_during_memorial_service_f/
www.charleston.net/news/2007/jun/22/service_program/
Yet, just over a mile away, in the same "West Ashley" area just outside of Charleston, at the Charleston Women's "Medical" [child-murder/abortion] Center over 50 pre-birth children have/will likely die this week alone***, and who will memorialize the loss of their lives ? Who will even notice ? Can we admit that these murdered children are also human beings, are also 'persons,' worthy of being memorialized as well ?They had not had the opportunity to be born and perform brave deeds of courage,but were they not still "lives worthy of life" to be respected instead of slaughtered ?
www.antiabortionsigns.com/catalog.html
*** The Charleston Women's Medical Center reported murdering 2,797 pre-birth children in 2005 alone, according to SC DHEC figures. From 1988 to 2005, this abortion death camp has reported murdering from a minimum of 2,162 (in 1995) to a maximum of 2,835 (in 2004) pre-birth children each year, for a total of 46,540 CHILDREN MURDERED IN CHARLESTON'S WEST ASHLEY CHILD-MURDER-BY-ABORTION DEATH CAMP in just these 18 years -they have NEVER BEEN MEMORIALIZED in a manner commensurate with this holocaust.
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/STATS-AB4.DOC
Nine brave firefighters sacrificed their lives on Monday, June 18 while fighting a raging fire that was described as a "30-foot tornado of flames," and trying to save the lives of two employees at the Super Sofa Store, 1807 Savannah Highyway (US Rte 17), Charleston, South Carolina. It was the "worst single incident to claim U.S. firefighters" lives since the Sept. 11 attacks." (www.thestate.com/156/story/95778.html).
www.thestate.com/312/story/99231.html
The fire Monday night created the single largest loss of firefighters' lives since the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Beside the caskets, the faces of its victims looked out proudly from large photos: Capt. William "Billy" Hutchinson, 48; Capt. Mike Benke, 49; Capt. Louis Mulkey, 34; Mark Kelsey, 40; Bradford "Brad" Baity, 37; Michael French, 27; James "Earl" Drayton, 56; Brandon Thompson, 27; and Melvin Champaign, 46.
"We've lost over 100 years of service," said Charleston Fire Chief Rusty Thomas at a Tuesday afternoon press conference. "I lost nine of my best friends."
www.thestate.com/156/story/95778.html
These firefighters and rescuers were heroic in their efforts. One of the speakers at today's (June 22) Memorial Service said, "To save a human life is a necessity for a firefighter." Scripture references had been made to the words of Jesus about greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for his friends, and that whatsoever you do to the least of these My brothers, you do unto Me. So why are these same thoughts not also applied to the rescuing of the lives of the unborn being slaughtered just over a mile from where this tragic loss of nine lives occurred at the Super Sofa Store near the corner of the Savannah Highway (U.S. Rte 17) and Wappoo Road ?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a schematic and map of the location of the Super Sofa Store:
www.charleston.net/photos/2007/jun/19/1087/
Sofa Super Store, 1807 Savannah Highway (Rte 17) near the intersection with Wappoo Rd.
(near SW corner of the intersection)
The location of the Charleston Women's "Medical" [sic] Center is available on MapQuest with a link from the abortion center's own website:
www.charlestonwomensmedicalcenter.com
Charleston Women's Medical Center (Child-murder-by-abortion center)1312 Ashley River Road (at intersection with Fuseler Rd.)
Charleston, SC 29407
www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&addtohistory=&address=
1312+ashley+river+rd.&city=charleston&state=sc&zipcode=&homesubmit=Get+Map
Zoom to level 10 to see both CWMC abortion mill and intersection of Savannah Hwy (US Rte 17) and Wappoo Road, near the location of the Super Sofa Store (street and aerial views) - approx.1.2 miles straight line distance between the abortion center and the furniture store
[The Charles Towne Landing State Park nearby is the site of the original first permanent European settlement in the Carolinas in 1670, later moving from West Ashley to the peninsula to establish the City of Charleston.]
The Charleston Women's Death Camp for Pre-birth Human Beings which has murdered over 46,000 children (1988-2005 alone) is just over one mile (straight line) from the site of Monday's tragedy where nine brave men lost their lives as protectors and rescuers. Who will protect and rescue the lives of the children being butchered on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays according to the CWMC's own website, on a weekly basis ?!!!
www.charlestonwomensmedicalcenter.com/appts.htm
For several years now, Voice of the Unborn director Johnny Gardner has been lobbying the SC Legislature for a suitable memorial to the Unborn who have lost their lives in our statebecause of the on going holocaust and tragedy of abortion. Over 317,000 children have been murdered from 1973-2005 in South Carolina by surgical abortion alone.
"JESUS is Pro-Life" Rally, SC State House, 12 noon, January 22, 2007
Voice of the Unborn, Johnny Gardner, Director - Letter
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/JOHN06-2.doc
Unborn Children's Monument Commission
H.3273
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3273.htm
Introduced in the House on January 17, 2007
Currently residing in the House Committee on Education and Public Works
A JOINT RESOLUTION
TO CREATE THE SOUTH CAROLINA UNBORN CHILDREN'S MONUMENT COMMISSION TO ERECT A MONUMENT ON THE STATE HOUSE GROUNDS AS A MEMORIAL TO SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN WHOSE LIVES ENDED BEFORE THEIR BIRTH AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION AND TO REQUIRE PRIVATE FUNDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THIS MONUMENT.
Mr. Mike Warren, Rochester, NY, minister and pro-life leader:
"True repentance is not possible until the truth regarding the need of repentance is comprehended."
How many Christians understand the Biblical doctrine of corporate bloodguilt,and therefore realize that all of us in America are stained with bloodguiltiness, as is the land itself ? How many pastors have the courage to preach it in the pulpit ?
(e.g., Deuteronomy 19:10, 13; Numbers 35:33; Deuteronomy 21:1-9; Jeremiah 26:15)
"If My people, which are called by My Name (born-again Christians), 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
Abortion in America can be ended in one week by passing H.R. 2597 and removing appellate jurisdiction from the U.S. Supreme Court, to prevent the overturn of this bill, which if passed would ban abortion nationwide
( see H.R. 2597, the Sanctity of Life Act of 2007 at http://thomas.loc.gov/ )
Abortion in each state can be ended by passing no exceptions fetal 'personhood'bills, similar to as H.3284, the Right to Life Act of SC; and/or by passing constitutional amendments, similar to HB 403 in the State of Montana
www.scstatehouse.net/sess117_2007-2008/bills/3284.htm
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2007/billhtml/HB0403.htm
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.)
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/RTLAofUS-07-04.doc
Revised and updated as of March 29, 2007
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:..." Hosea 4:6a (KJB)
"Where there is no vision, the people perish..." Proverb 29:18a (KJB)
"...with God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26b (KJB) [State of Ohio motto]
"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." Philippians 4:13 (KJB)
_____________________________________________
No King but King Jesus!
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
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, SC
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
June 22, 2007
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