North Dakota Roman Catholic Bishops help defeat bill
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Senate defeats 'personhood' bill
www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2009/04/03/news/update/doc49d66d8b2fc62185371154.txt
Apr 03, 2009 - 15:11:56 CDT
By Brian Duggan
[emphasis added]
A bill that would have given personhood status to a fertilized human egg was defeated by the Senate 29-16 today.
Sen. Curtis Olafson, R-Edinburg, said lawmakers should oppose the legislation because of its sweeping and detrimental legal consequences it could bring.
He said the bill could tie the hands of doctors and mothers trying to treat abnormal pregnancies or cancers because the fertilized embryo would have full legal rights if the bill were to pass.
"This raises many undesirable consequences involving criminal law, civil law and matters completely unrelated to protecting human life," Olafson said.
No senator stood to support the bill.
Rep. Dan Ruby, R-Minot, introduced the legislation with the hopes that it would be a direct challenge to the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Roe v. Wade.
The House passed the bill 51-41 in February.
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North Dakota Catholic Bishops Opt to Preserve Roe v. Wade
April 2, 2009
by Robert L. Hale
[excerpt, emphasis added]
MINOT, N.D.- Rep. Dan Ruby (R-Minot, N.D.) introduced a bill (HB 1572) in the North Dakota House of Representatives that defined "individual, person, or human being" as "any organism with the genome of homo sapiens." The intent of the bill was to clarify personhood under the state constitution. The bill was passed by the House and moved to the Senate.
Four days before the Senate hearing on the bill, North Dakota's two Catholic Bishops, Paul Zipfel of Bismarck and Samuel Aquila of Fargo, called a news conference to announce they could not support the bill as written. They offered amendments that gutted the bill in its entirety -- striking every word of the original bill, including the operative word "person."
complete article can be seen at:
www.rightsidenews.com/200904024238/culture-wars/north-dakota-catholic-bishops-opt-to-preserve-roe-v.-wade.html
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April 03, 2009
March 25, 2009
America's Personhood March Now in SC
Bob Enyart interviews Steve Lefemine, director of Columbia Christians for Life
http://kgov.com/bel/20090317
* South Carolina Introduces a Personhood Bill: Steve Lefemine of Columbia Christians for Life tells Bob Enyart about the Right to Life Act of South Carolina which vests legal personhood at fertilization with no exceptions, thereby invoking the constitutional protections of due process and equal protection for a ‘person’ in order to end ‘legalized’ abortion (child-murder) in this state.
Listen here...
http://kgov.com/bel/20090317
* South Carolina Introduces a Personhood Bill: Steve Lefemine of Columbia Christians for Life tells Bob Enyart about the Right to Life Act of South Carolina which vests legal personhood at fertilization with no exceptions, thereby invoking the constitutional protections of due process and equal protection for a ‘person’ in order to end ‘legalized’ abortion (child-murder) in this state.
Listen here...
March 16, 2009
Catholic Bishops in Michigan and Michigan chapter of National Right to Life
opposed proposed state personhood constitutional amendment for November 2006 ballot
DEFEAT AT THE HANDS OF OUR FRIENDS
Posted: Monday July 10, 2006 at 7:36 am EST by Judie Brown
www.all.org/newsroom_judieblog.php?id=1198
[ emphasis added ]
The sad news was reported July 10 that the Michigan Citizens for Life petition drive had fallen short of the 317,000 signatures needed to put a totally pro-life proposed state constitutional amendment on the November ballot. What was so disheartening about this news, and what has been disappointing over the past many months has been the repeated denunciation of the effort by Michigan Right to Life, the Michigan Catholic Conference and others. It boggles my mind as I try to understand how any pro-life organization, most especially Catholic Bishops, would do anything to oppose an effort to protect each preborn child from his beginning as a person! PERSONHOOD was the single goal of this simple proposal. Yet pro-life and Catholic opposition made the struggle so hard, and clearly caused the lack of signatures. Of that there is no doubt.
So now what? Do we buy into the politically correct line that “timing is all wrong?” NO! But I wonder ,,, could it be that there really are pro-life leaders who do not want to see every single abortion outlawed, whether that abortion occurs in an in vitro fertilization clinic, because of a birth control pill or by using a surgical intervention? If the goal of the pro-life movement is PERSONHOOD ? total protection for all innocent children prior to birth ? then something terribly evil happened in Michigan. Let us pray it never happens again.
Judie
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From Steve Lefemine, CCL director (March 16, 2009):
Mrs. Judie Brown is president of American Life League. She is a long-time, principled, pro-personhood,
sincere pro-lifer. Unfortunately she is also a devout follower of the false religion of Rome, and has been
unable to publicly admit the obvious, painful, hard truth which the evidence supports, in light of the
opposition of the Catholic Bishops to "personhood" in Michigan, Georgia, Montana, and Colorado, i.e.,
the Roman Catholic hierarchy is NOT pro-life !
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In other words, the petition drive to put a pro-personhood state constitutional amendment on the ballot in Michigan in 2006 was defeated with the opposition of the Michigan chapter of National Right to Life (just as the director of the South Carolina chapter of National Right to Life (SC Citizens for Life) tried to kill the SC Personhood bill several years ago by approaching the SC Legislator sponsoring the bill, in a failed attempt to get him to stop promoting his bill), and with the opposition of the Michigan bishop(s) [ Michigan Catholic Conference].
The evidence is there for all with "eyes to see" - the Roman Catholic hierarchy (Bishops and above) and National Right to Life [ originally formed by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1968 ], are opposed to the numerous ongoing efforts to establish personhood for the unborn, and thereby END, not just regulate abortion. For Rome, the primary goal is ecumenism, not protecting the unborn, and the "pro-life movement" in America has been a fruitful opportunityfor Rome's centuries-old agenda (since the 1500's) to counter the effects of the Reformation, and undermine the Bible-believing, evangelical churches and Christians with the heresies of Romanism.
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"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary, dir., Columbia Christians for Life, PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250 / (803) 794-6273
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ / http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/ / Revised May 21, 2009
Click here for a printable version of this report.
DEFEAT AT THE HANDS OF OUR FRIENDS
Posted: Monday July 10, 2006 at 7:36 am EST by Judie Brown
www.all.org/newsroom_judieblog.php?id=1198
[ emphasis added ]
The sad news was reported July 10 that the Michigan Citizens for Life petition drive had fallen short of the 317,000 signatures needed to put a totally pro-life proposed state constitutional amendment on the November ballot. What was so disheartening about this news, and what has been disappointing over the past many months has been the repeated denunciation of the effort by Michigan Right to Life, the Michigan Catholic Conference and others. It boggles my mind as I try to understand how any pro-life organization, most especially Catholic Bishops, would do anything to oppose an effort to protect each preborn child from his beginning as a person! PERSONHOOD was the single goal of this simple proposal. Yet pro-life and Catholic opposition made the struggle so hard, and clearly caused the lack of signatures. Of that there is no doubt.
So now what? Do we buy into the politically correct line that “timing is all wrong?” NO! But I wonder ,,, could it be that there really are pro-life leaders who do not want to see every single abortion outlawed, whether that abortion occurs in an in vitro fertilization clinic, because of a birth control pill or by using a surgical intervention? If the goal of the pro-life movement is PERSONHOOD ? total protection for all innocent children prior to birth ? then something terribly evil happened in Michigan. Let us pray it never happens again.
Judie
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From Steve Lefemine, CCL director (March 16, 2009):
Mrs. Judie Brown is president of American Life League. She is a long-time, principled, pro-personhood,
sincere pro-lifer. Unfortunately she is also a devout follower of the false religion of Rome, and has been
unable to publicly admit the obvious, painful, hard truth which the evidence supports, in light of the
opposition of the Catholic Bishops to "personhood" in Michigan, Georgia, Montana, and Colorado, i.e.,
the Roman Catholic hierarchy is NOT pro-life !
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In other words, the petition drive to put a pro-personhood state constitutional amendment on the ballot in Michigan in 2006 was defeated with the opposition of the Michigan chapter of National Right to Life (just as the director of the South Carolina chapter of National Right to Life (SC Citizens for Life) tried to kill the SC Personhood bill several years ago by approaching the SC Legislator sponsoring the bill, in a failed attempt to get him to stop promoting his bill), and with the opposition of the Michigan bishop(s) [ Michigan Catholic Conference].
The evidence is there for all with "eyes to see" - the Roman Catholic hierarchy (Bishops and above) and National Right to Life [ originally formed by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1968 ], are opposed to the numerous ongoing efforts to establish personhood for the unborn, and thereby END, not just regulate abortion. For Rome, the primary goal is ecumenism, not protecting the unborn, and the "pro-life movement" in America has been a fruitful opportunityfor Rome's centuries-old agenda (since the 1500's) to counter the effects of the Reformation, and undermine the Bible-believing, evangelical churches and Christians with the heresies of Romanism.
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"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary, dir., Columbia Christians for Life, PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250 / (803) 794-6273
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ / http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/ / Revised May 21, 2009
Click here for a printable version of this report.
March 13, 2009
SC "Personhood" Bills - Take Action to Advocate Bills' Progress
South Carolina's "Personhood" Bills - H.3526 and S.450 - are SC's pro-life / anti-abortion bills to END "legalized" child-murder-by-abortion by vesting legal "personhood" at fertilization, with no exceptions.
Go to: www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net, links to bills on Home page; click on “RTL Act of SC” to pull up information on history and status of SC Personhood Bills (first introduced in SC House and Senate in 1998).
H.3526 was introduced Feb.12, 2009 and now has 52 sponsors in the SC House of Representatives
(look on-line to see list of House sponsors of bill H.3526 at www.scstatehouse.gov)
S.450 was introduced Feb. 18, 2009 and now has 11 sponsors in the SC Senate
(look on-line to see list of Senate sponsors of bill S.450 at www.scstatehouse.gov)
Each bill (H.3526 and S.450) states:
“The right to life for each born and preborn human being vests at fertilization.” and “The rights guaranteed by Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of this State [SC], that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws, vest at fertilization for each born and preborn human person."
THE REQUIREMENT OF "PERSONHOOD" AS THE LEGAL MEANS OF ENDING ABORTION, IS EXPLICITLY STATED IN THE 1973 ROE V. WADE US SUPREME COURT DECISION TEXT:
The 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision instructed that if “personhood” for the “fetus” was established at fertilization, with no exceptions, then the legal argument for abortion “collapses” :
“If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
The SC "Personhood" Bills (H.3526 and S.450) are constitutional, and meet the express requirement set forth by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade to establish personhood for the "fetus," thus guaranteeing the right to life of this pre-birth human being, and ending decriminalized abortion in SC. “Exceptions” to “Personhood” are unconstitutional.
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Please contact these key SC House and Senate leaders; ask them to co-sponsor these bills !
SC HOUSE: (H.3526 is in the Constitutional Laws Subcommittee, of the House Judiciary Committee)
1) Please contact Rep. Greg Delleney (R-Chester & York), Constitutional Laws Subcommittee Chairman
Address - PO Drawer 808, Chester, SC 29706; Ph. - (W) 803-581-2211 (H) 803-385-3580 / fgd@schouse.org
2) Please contact Rep. Jim Harrison (R-Richland), House Judiciary Committee Chairman
Address - 198 Preserve Lane, Columbia, SC 29209; Ph. - (W) 803-256-0049 (H) 803-783-0777 / HJU@schouse.org
3) Please contact Rep. Bobby Harrell (R-Charleston & Dorchester), Speaker of the SC House
Address - 8316 Rivers Ave., Charleston, SC 29406; Ph. - (W) 843-572-1500 (H) 843-556-9075
HSP@schouse.org and bobbyharrell@bobbyharrell.com and website: www.bobbyharrell.com
SC SENATE: (S.450 is in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee not announced)
Please contact Sen. Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston), Senate Judiciary Comm. Chair & President Pro Tempore
Address - 27 Bainbridge Dr., Charleston, SC 29407; Ph. - (W) 843-747-7554 (H) 843-571-3921 / SJU@scsenate.org
GOVERNOR: Please contact Governor Mark Sanford (R) (possible 2012 candidate for US President)
Address - PO Box 12267, Columbia, SC 29211; Ph. - (W) 803-734-2100 (H) 803-737-3000
Ask Governor Sanford to use the "bully pulpit" of his office to publicly support these bills. The first duty of a civil minister is to acknowledge God; the second duty of a civil minister is to prevent the shedding of innocent blood.
Please be sure and contact your own SC State House members in the SC House and SC Senate. You may write any House member at PO Box 11867, Columbia, SC 29211. You may write any Senator at PO Box 142, Columbia, SC 29202. Ask them to co-sponsor their respective bill in the House (H.3526) or Senate (S.450).
TWO STATES (North Dakota and Montana) in Feb. 2009 have already passed Personhood legislation in one house of their state legislatures, for the first time in US history. Why not in South Carolina !?
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Distributed by Columbia Christians for Life, PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250 / (803) 794-6273
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net / www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
February 26, 2009
Montana Personhood Constitutional Amendment Passes Senate, First In US History - Press Release (E-mail)
Montana Personhood Constitutional Amendment Passes Senate,
First In US History
From Personhood USA press release below (2/26/09):
"Helena, Montana - 02/26/2009 - Montana's Senate passed constitutional Personhood Amendment, SB 406, in a 26-24 vote. The amendment, introduced by Senator Dan McGee, passed on its third reading on the Senate floor this morning. This is the first Personhood Amendment in U.S. history to pass a State Senate."
"SB 406 must continue on to pass the Montana House of Representatives with a majority vote of 74. The race is on between Montana and North Dakota for the first Personhood legislation in our nation's history, as Montana's Personhood Amendment continues on to its House of Representatives, and North Dakota's Personhood legislation continues on to its Senate."
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Six states are known to presently have Personhood bills filed in the State Legislatures for 2009:
- Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina (see bills further below)
- Maryland's and Montana's filings are each for a Personhood Amendment to their State Constitutions; the other four states have Personhood Bills for statutory changes to the state's code of laws
- Establishing in law (by statutory change to the state's code of laws, or by a state constitutional amendment) legal "personhood" for pre-birth human beings, at fertilization, with no exceptions, satisfies the requirement spelled out in the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, to "collapse" the [so-called] "legal" argument for abortion:
- The 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision instructed that if “personhood” for the “fetus” was established at fertilization, with no exceptions, then the legal argument for abortion “collapses.” “If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
( Roe v. Wade, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113 )
- In other words, pass "personhood" legislation in your state, as a bill, or as a constitutional amendment, and according to the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision itself, [so-called] "legal" abortion is over. As the article below reports, Montana has now become the first state in US history to pass a Personhood Amendment (to the State Constitution) in a State Senate (or in a State House) ! Praise the Lord !
- This effort of passing Personhood legislation can begin with finding even just one Christian, principled "pro-personhood" pro-life / anti-abortion State House or State Senate member in your state, and asking them to introduce a Personhood Bill. Look below at the links to the actual seven bills in ALA, GA, MD, MONT, ND, and SC (2 - House and Senate companion bills), and consider which version of Personhood legislation best fits your state's constitution, state laws, and state legislature. Pray, and get started !!! Abortion could have been banned over 36 years ago by vesting legal personhood at fertilization with no exceptions.
God's Requirement for Murder is Justice, not Regulation ! (Ps. 97:2, Prov. 21:3)
Steve Lefemine
February 27, 2009 / Revised April 26, 2009
Read and download the entire report here.
First In US History
From Personhood USA press release below (2/26/09):
"Helena, Montana - 02/26/2009 - Montana's Senate passed constitutional Personhood Amendment, SB 406, in a 26-24 vote. The amendment, introduced by Senator Dan McGee, passed on its third reading on the Senate floor this morning. This is the first Personhood Amendment in U.S. history to pass a State Senate."
"SB 406 must continue on to pass the Montana House of Representatives with a majority vote of 74. The race is on between Montana and North Dakota for the first Personhood legislation in our nation's history, as Montana's Personhood Amendment continues on to its House of Representatives, and North Dakota's Personhood legislation continues on to its Senate."
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Six states are known to presently have Personhood bills filed in the State Legislatures for 2009:
- Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina (see bills further below)
- Maryland's and Montana's filings are each for a Personhood Amendment to their State Constitutions; the other four states have Personhood Bills for statutory changes to the state's code of laws
- Establishing in law (by statutory change to the state's code of laws, or by a state constitutional amendment) legal "personhood" for pre-birth human beings, at fertilization, with no exceptions, satisfies the requirement spelled out in the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, to "collapse" the [so-called] "legal" argument for abortion:
- The 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision instructed that if “personhood” for the “fetus” was established at fertilization, with no exceptions, then the legal argument for abortion “collapses.” “If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
( Roe v. Wade, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113 )
- In other words, pass "personhood" legislation in your state, as a bill, or as a constitutional amendment, and according to the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision itself, [so-called] "legal" abortion is over. As the article below reports, Montana has now become the first state in US history to pass a Personhood Amendment (to the State Constitution) in a State Senate (or in a State House) ! Praise the Lord !
- This effort of passing Personhood legislation can begin with finding even just one Christian, principled "pro-personhood" pro-life / anti-abortion State House or State Senate member in your state, and asking them to introduce a Personhood Bill. Look below at the links to the actual seven bills in ALA, GA, MD, MONT, ND, and SC (2 - House and Senate companion bills), and consider which version of Personhood legislation best fits your state's constitution, state laws, and state legislature. Pray, and get started !!! Abortion could have been banned over 36 years ago by vesting legal personhood at fertilization with no exceptions.
God's Requirement for Murder is Justice, not Regulation ! (Ps. 97:2, Prov. 21:3)
Steve Lefemine
February 27, 2009 / Revised April 26, 2009
Read and download the entire report here.
Montana Personhood Constitutional Amendment Passes Senate, First In US History - Press Release
Montana Personhood Amendment Passes State Senate, 26-24 Vote.
Submitted by Keith on Thu, 02/26/2009
in Montana
Helena, Montana - 02/26/2009 - Montana's Senate passed constitutional Personhood Amendment, SB 406, in a 26-24 vote. The amendment, introduced by Senator Dan McGee, passed on its third reading on the Senate floor this morning. This is the first Personhood Amendment in U.S. history to pass a State Senate.
"Senator Dan McGee, writing the language of SB 406 himself, has shown what it truly means to be pro-life," stated Keith Mason, of Personhood USA. "Senator McGee's successful efforts on behalf of all human beings at all stages of human life are a giant step forward in historic efforts to ensure the rights and protection of every individual."
SB 406, which defines person for the purposes of application of inalienable rights, states, "All persons are born free and have certain inalienable rights...person means a human being at all stages of human development of life, including the state of fertilization or conception, regardless of age, health, level of functioning, or condition of dependency."
"Praise God! The honor of being the first State Senate in U.S. history to recognize the personhood of pre-born children goes to Montana," commented Cal Zastrow of Personhood USA. "Thanks to the leadership of Sen. Dan McGee, The Montana Personhood Amendment now moves forward to the State House of Representatives."
SB 406 must continue on to pass the Montana House of Representatives with a majority vote of 74. The race is on between Montana and North Dakota for the first Personhood legislation in our nation's history, as Montana's Personhood Amendment continues on to its House of Representatives, and North Dakota's Personhood legislation continues on to its Senate.
Personhood USA is a grassroots Christian organization founded to establish personhood efforts across America to create protection for every child by love and by law. Personhood USA is committed to assisting and supporting Personhood Legislation and Constitutional Amendments and building local pro-life organizations through raising awareness of the personhood of the pre-born.
For Interviews please call Personhood USA @ 202-595-3500 or
Senator Dan McGee 406-628-6534
For More Information please visit www.personhoodusa.com.
Personhood USA PO Box 486 Arvada CO. 80001
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Re-formatted and distributed by Columbia Christians for Life, PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 794-6273 / CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net / www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
Please click here for a printable version of this press release.
Submitted by Keith on Thu, 02/26/2009
in Montana
Helena, Montana - 02/26/2009 - Montana's Senate passed constitutional Personhood Amendment, SB 406, in a 26-24 vote. The amendment, introduced by Senator Dan McGee, passed on its third reading on the Senate floor this morning. This is the first Personhood Amendment in U.S. history to pass a State Senate.
"Senator Dan McGee, writing the language of SB 406 himself, has shown what it truly means to be pro-life," stated Keith Mason, of Personhood USA. "Senator McGee's successful efforts on behalf of all human beings at all stages of human life are a giant step forward in historic efforts to ensure the rights and protection of every individual."
SB 406, which defines person for the purposes of application of inalienable rights, states, "All persons are born free and have certain inalienable rights...person means a human being at all stages of human development of life, including the state of fertilization or conception, regardless of age, health, level of functioning, or condition of dependency."
"Praise God! The honor of being the first State Senate in U.S. history to recognize the personhood of pre-born children goes to Montana," commented Cal Zastrow of Personhood USA. "Thanks to the leadership of Sen. Dan McGee, The Montana Personhood Amendment now moves forward to the State House of Representatives."
SB 406 must continue on to pass the Montana House of Representatives with a majority vote of 74. The race is on between Montana and North Dakota for the first Personhood legislation in our nation's history, as Montana's Personhood Amendment continues on to its House of Representatives, and North Dakota's Personhood legislation continues on to its Senate.
Personhood USA is a grassroots Christian organization founded to establish personhood efforts across America to create protection for every child by love and by law. Personhood USA is committed to assisting and supporting Personhood Legislation and Constitutional Amendments and building local pro-life organizations through raising awareness of the personhood of the pre-born.
For Interviews please call Personhood USA @ 202-595-3500 or
Senator Dan McGee 406-628-6534
For More Information please visit www.personhoodusa.com.
Personhood USA PO Box 486 Arvada CO. 80001
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Re-formatted and distributed by Columbia Christians for Life, PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 794-6273 / CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net / www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
Please click here for a printable version of this press release.
February 19, 2009
SOUTH CAROLINA “PERSONHOOD” COMPANION BILL INTRODUCED IN SC SENATE FILED WITH TOTAL 10 SC SENATE SPONSORS
PRESS RELEASE
FOR RELEASE: Thursday, February 19, 2009
FOR FURTHER INFO: Contact, Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life,
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net,
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ , http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
(803) 794-6273; PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
[COLUMBIA] – A South Carolina “Personhood” companion bill was introduced Wednesday, February 18 in the SC State Senate with 10 total sponsors, the most at introduction since the bill was first introduced 11 years ago in February 1998 (the SC “Personhood” bill has been active in the SC House each year since; while active in the SC Senate in five of those years).
The SC Senate (http://www.scstatehouse.gov/) has a total of 46 members.
SC Senate bill S.450, sponsored by Senator Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg), states (in language identical to the SC House “Personhood” bill, H.3526, introduced February 12):
“The right to life for each born and preborn human being vests at fertilization.” and “The rights guaranteed by Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of this State [SC], that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws, vest at fertilization for each born and preborn human person."
( www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/450.htm )
The Attorney General of SC issued a legal opinion (March 2005) that this bill is constitutional on its face, though would likely be adjudicated when applied to abortion.
( www.christianlifeandliberty.net/Westlaw_Document_15_03_35_5392471.doc )
In 2005, the “Personhood” Bill passed the full South Carolina House of Representatives on April 13, 2005 (Second Reading) by a vote of Yeas-95 to Nays-18, albeit with an exception amended to the bill for cases of pre-born children conceived by the crime of rape. This denial of equal protection for the innocent pre-born child in cases of rape, fatally flawed the legal strategy of the bill (i.e., legal personhood) by failing to establish justice for all pre-birth humans.
( www.scstatehouse.gov/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm )
The 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision instructed that if “personhood” for the “fetus” was established at fertilization, with no exceptions, then the legal argument for abortion “collapses.”
“If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” ( Roe v. Wade, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113 )
The SC “Personhood” Bill is constitutional, and meets the express requirement set forth by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade to establish personhood for the fetus, thus guaranteeing the right to life of this pre-birth human being, and ending decriminalized abortion in SC.
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Please click here for a printable version of this press release.
FOR RELEASE: Thursday, February 19, 2009
FOR FURTHER INFO: Contact, Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life,
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net,
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ , http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
(803) 794-6273; PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
[COLUMBIA] – A South Carolina “Personhood” companion bill was introduced Wednesday, February 18 in the SC State Senate with 10 total sponsors, the most at introduction since the bill was first introduced 11 years ago in February 1998 (the SC “Personhood” bill has been active in the SC House each year since; while active in the SC Senate in five of those years).
The SC Senate (http://www.scstatehouse.gov/) has a total of 46 members.
SC Senate bill S.450, sponsored by Senator Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg), states (in language identical to the SC House “Personhood” bill, H.3526, introduced February 12):
“The right to life for each born and preborn human being vests at fertilization.” and “The rights guaranteed by Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of this State [SC], that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws, vest at fertilization for each born and preborn human person."
( www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/450.htm )
The Attorney General of SC issued a legal opinion (March 2005) that this bill is constitutional on its face, though would likely be adjudicated when applied to abortion.
( www.christianlifeandliberty.net/Westlaw_Document_15_03_35_5392471.doc )
In 2005, the “Personhood” Bill passed the full South Carolina House of Representatives on April 13, 2005 (Second Reading) by a vote of Yeas-95 to Nays-18, albeit with an exception amended to the bill for cases of pre-born children conceived by the crime of rape. This denial of equal protection for the innocent pre-born child in cases of rape, fatally flawed the legal strategy of the bill (i.e., legal personhood) by failing to establish justice for all pre-birth humans.
( www.scstatehouse.gov/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm )
The 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision instructed that if “personhood” for the “fetus” was established at fertilization, with no exceptions, then the legal argument for abortion “collapses.”
“If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” ( Roe v. Wade, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113 )
The SC “Personhood” Bill is constitutional, and meets the express requirement set forth by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade to establish personhood for the fetus, thus guaranteeing the right to life of this pre-birth human being, and ending decriminalized abortion in SC.
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SOUTH CAROLINA "PERSONHOOD" COMPANION BILL INTRODUCED IN SC SENATE - Press Release (E-mail)
SOUTH CAROLINA "PERSONHOOD" COMPANION BILL INTRODUCED IN SC SENATE - Press Release
FILED WITH TOTAL 10 SC SENATE SPONSORS - February 18, 2009
PRESS RELEASE
FOR RELEASE: Thursday, February 19, 2009
FOR FURTHER INFO: Contact, Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life,
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net,
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net, www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
(803) 794-6273; PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
[COLUMBIA] A South Carolina “Personhood” companion bill was introduced Wednesday, February 18 in the SC State Senate with 10 total sponsors, the most at introduction since the bill was first introduced 11 years ago in February 1998 (the SC “Personhood” bill has been active in the SC House each year since; while active in the SC Senate in five of those years).
The SC Senate (http://www.scstatehouse.gov/ ) has a total of 46 members.
SC Senate bill S.450, sponsored by Senator Lee Bright (R-Spartanburg), states (in language identical to the SC House “Personhood” bill, H.3526, introduced February 12):
“The right to life for each born and preborn human being vests at fertilization.” and “The rights guaranteed by Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of this State [SC], that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws, vest at fertilization for each born and preborn human person."
( www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/450.htm )
The Attorney General of SC issued a legal opinion (March 2005) that this bill is constitutional on its face, though would likely be adjudicated when applied to abortion.
( www.christianlifeandliberty.net/Westlaw_Document_15_03_35_5392471.doc )
In 2005, the “Personhood” Bill passed the full South Carolina House of Representatives on April 13, 2005 (Second Reading) by a vote of Yeas-95 to Nays-18, albeit with an exception amended to the bill for cases of pre-born children conceived by the crime of rape. This denial of equal protection for the innocent pre-born child in cases of rape, fatally flawed the legal strategy of the bill (i.e., legal personhood) by failing to establish justice for all pre-birth humans.
( www.scstatehouse.gov/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm )
The 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision instructed that if “personhood” for the “fetus” was established at fertilization, with no exceptions, then the legal argument for abortion “collapses.” “If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
( Roe v. Wade, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113 )
The SC “Personhood” Bill is constitutional, and meets the express requirement set forth by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade to establish personhood for the fetus, thus guaranteeing the right to life of this pre-birth human being, and ending decriminalized abortion in SC.
Read and download the enitre report here.
February 17, 2009
North Dakota Personhood Bill Passes House, First In US History - Press Release (E-mail)
Six states are known to presently have Personhood bills filed in the State Legislatures for 2009:
- Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina (see bills further below)
- Maryland's and Montana's filings are each for a Personhood Amendment to their State Constitutions; the other four states have Personhood Bills for statutory changes to the state's code of laws
- Establishing in law (by statutory change to the state's code of laws, or by a state constitutional amendment) legal "personhood" for pre-birth human beings, at fertilization, with no exceptions, satisfies the requirement spelled out in the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, to "collapse" the [so-called] "legal" argument for abortion:
- The 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision instructed that if “personhood” for the “fetus” was established at fertilization, with no exceptions, then the legal argument for abortion “collapses.”
“If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
( Roe v. Wade, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113 )
- In other words, pass "personhood" legislation in your state, as a bill, or as a constitutional amendment, and according to the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision itself, [so-called] "legal" abortion is over. As the article below reports, North Dakota has become the first state to pass a principled Personhood Bill in US history [ SC's Personhood Bill that passed in 2005 in the South Carolina House was fatally flawed because it had a rape exception amendment tacked on, even though the bill may already have had enough votes to pass without this killer amendment ].
- This effort of passing Personhood legislation can begin with finding even just one Christian, principled "pro-personhood" pro-life/anti-abortion State House or State Senate member in your state, and asking them to introduce a Personhood Bill. Look below at the links to the actual seven bills in ALA, GA, MD, MONT, ND, and SC (2 - House and Senate companion bills), and consider which version of Personhood legislation best fits your state's constitution, state laws, and state legislature. Pray, and get started !!! Abortion could have been banned over 36 years ago by vesting legal personhood at fertilization with no exceptions.
God's Requirement for Murder is Justice, not Regulation ! (Ps. 97:2, Prov. 21:3)
Steve Lefemine
February 24, 2009 / Corrected April 26, 2009
Please click here for the entire report.
- Alabama, Georgia, Maryland, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina (see bills further below)
- Maryland's and Montana's filings are each for a Personhood Amendment to their State Constitutions; the other four states have Personhood Bills for statutory changes to the state's code of laws
- Establishing in law (by statutory change to the state's code of laws, or by a state constitutional amendment) legal "personhood" for pre-birth human beings, at fertilization, with no exceptions, satisfies the requirement spelled out in the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, to "collapse" the [so-called] "legal" argument for abortion:
- The 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision instructed that if “personhood” for the “fetus” was established at fertilization, with no exceptions, then the legal argument for abortion “collapses.”
“If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [abortion] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
( Roe v. Wade, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=410&invol=113 )
- In other words, pass "personhood" legislation in your state, as a bill, or as a constitutional amendment, and according to the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision itself, [so-called] "legal" abortion is over. As the article below reports, North Dakota has become the first state to pass a principled Personhood Bill in US history [ SC's Personhood Bill that passed in 2005 in the South Carolina House was fatally flawed because it had a rape exception amendment tacked on, even though the bill may already have had enough votes to pass without this killer amendment ].
- This effort of passing Personhood legislation can begin with finding even just one Christian, principled "pro-personhood" pro-life/anti-abortion State House or State Senate member in your state, and asking them to introduce a Personhood Bill. Look below at the links to the actual seven bills in ALA, GA, MD, MONT, ND, and SC (2 - House and Senate companion bills), and consider which version of Personhood legislation best fits your state's constitution, state laws, and state legislature. Pray, and get started !!! Abortion could have been banned over 36 years ago by vesting legal personhood at fertilization with no exceptions.
God's Requirement for Murder is Justice, not Regulation ! (Ps. 97:2, Prov. 21:3)
Steve Lefemine
February 24, 2009 / Corrected April 26, 2009
Please click here for the entire report.
North Dakota Personhood Bill Passes House, First In US History - Press Release
North Dakota Personhood Bill Passes, First In US History.
Submitted by Keith on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 07:28.
in North Dakota
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
North Dakota Personhood Bill Passes, First In US History.
Bismarck, ND. Signaling the growing momentum of the personhood movement, North Dakota lawmakers approved HB 1572 with a vote of 51-41.
Rep. Dan Ruby introduced the "Personhood" bill, which affirms the rights of pre-born humans and states: "For purposes of interpretation of the constitution and laws of North Dakota, it is the intent of the legislative assembly that an individual, a person, when the context indicates that a reference to an individual is intended, a human being includes any organism with the genome of homo sapiens."
Thousands of calls to legislators were made by pro-life grassroots volunteers who helped with this victory. Only one representative voiced opposition to the bill during the debate of the bill, while overwhelming public support was seen.
"Personhood USA applauds the leadership and support that the North Dakota Life League and North Dakota Family Alliance have shown to make this victory happen," stated Keith Mason of Personhood USA. He continued, "We thank Rep. Dan Ruby for his courage and for being actively pro-life. This great family man with his wife and 10 children are an example to us all."
"North Dakotans have gotten used to cold temperatures like -44 degrees, but they haven't gotten used to child-killing. We applaud and support their efforts to protect every baby by love and by law," commented Cal Zastrow, who, along with his family, worked on the North Dakota bill on the grassroots level.
The next step for HB 1572 is to be voted on by the ND Senate which could happen in the next two weeks.
"HB 1572 brings us one step closer to applying the same laws that apply to you and me, to all humans," said Daniel Woodard, lobbyist with North Dakota Life League.
Personhood USA is a grassroots Christian organization founded to establish personhood efforts across America to create protection for every child by love and by law. Personhood USA is committed to assisting and supporting Personhood Legislation and Constitutional Amendments and building local pro-life organizations through raising awareness of the personhood of the pre-born.
For Interviews please call 202-595-3500
For More Information please visit
Personhood USA / www.personhoodusa.com
Personhood North Dakota / www.personhoodnorthdakota.com
North Dakota Policy Council / www.ndfa.org
Personhood USA , PO Box 486, Arvada, Colorado 80001 ©copyright 2008 Personhood USA / 202-595-3500
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Re-formatted and distributed by Columbia Christians for Life, PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250 / (803) 794-6273
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net / www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net [While thankful for the principled pro-life efforts of all those supporting “personhood” for pre-born humans, CCL does not participate in ecumenical pro-life activism.]
Please click here for a printable version of this press release.
Submitted by Keith on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 07:28.
in North Dakota
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
North Dakota Personhood Bill Passes, First In US History.
Bismarck, ND. Signaling the growing momentum of the personhood movement, North Dakota lawmakers approved HB 1572 with a vote of 51-41.
Rep. Dan Ruby introduced the "Personhood" bill, which affirms the rights of pre-born humans and states: "For purposes of interpretation of the constitution and laws of North Dakota, it is the intent of the legislative assembly that an individual, a person, when the context indicates that a reference to an individual is intended, a human being includes any organism with the genome of homo sapiens."
Thousands of calls to legislators were made by pro-life grassroots volunteers who helped with this victory. Only one representative voiced opposition to the bill during the debate of the bill, while overwhelming public support was seen.
"Personhood USA applauds the leadership and support that the North Dakota Life League and North Dakota Family Alliance have shown to make this victory happen," stated Keith Mason of Personhood USA. He continued, "We thank Rep. Dan Ruby for his courage and for being actively pro-life. This great family man with his wife and 10 children are an example to us all."
"North Dakotans have gotten used to cold temperatures like -44 degrees, but they haven't gotten used to child-killing. We applaud and support their efforts to protect every baby by love and by law," commented Cal Zastrow, who, along with his family, worked on the North Dakota bill on the grassroots level.
The next step for HB 1572 is to be voted on by the ND Senate which could happen in the next two weeks.
"HB 1572 brings us one step closer to applying the same laws that apply to you and me, to all humans," said Daniel Woodard, lobbyist with North Dakota Life League.
Personhood USA is a grassroots Christian organization founded to establish personhood efforts across America to create protection for every child by love and by law. Personhood USA is committed to assisting and supporting Personhood Legislation and Constitutional Amendments and building local pro-life organizations through raising awareness of the personhood of the pre-born.
For Interviews please call 202-595-3500
For More Information please visit
Personhood USA / www.personhoodusa.com
Personhood North Dakota / www.personhoodnorthdakota.com
North Dakota Policy Council / www.ndfa.org
Personhood USA , PO Box 486, Arvada, Colorado 80001 ©copyright 2008 Personhood USA / 202-595-3500
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Re-formatted and distributed by Columbia Christians for Life, PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250 / (803) 794-6273
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net / www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net [While thankful for the principled pro-life efforts of all those supporting “personhood” for pre-born humans, CCL does not participate in ecumenical pro-life activism.]
Please click here for a printable version of this press release.
February 16, 2009
RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SOUTH CAROLINA “PERSONHOOD” BILL INTRODUCED
FILED WITH TOTAL 45 SC HOUSE SPONSORS
PRESS RELEASE
FOR RELEASE: Monday, February 16, 2009
FOR FURTHER INFO:
Contact, Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life,
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net,
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ , http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
(803) 794-6273; PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
[COLUMBIA] The Right to Life Act of South Carolina “Personhood” bill was introduced on Thursday, February 12, in the South Carolina House of Representatives with 45 total sponsors, the most at introduction in the 11 years since the bill was first introduced in February 1998.
The SC House (http://www.scstatehouse.gov/), has a total of 124 members.
SC House bill H.3526, filed by Rep. Liston Barfield (R-Conway), states:
“The right to life for each born and preborn human being vests at fertilization.” and “The rights guaranteed by Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of this State [SC], that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws, vest at fertilization for each born and preborn human person."
( www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/3526.htm )
The Attorney General of SC issued a legal opinion (Mar 2005) that the Right to Life Act of SC is constitutional on its face, though would likely be adjudicated when applied to abortion.
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 )
In 2005, the Right to Life Act of SC passed the full South Carolina House of Representatives on April 13, 2005 (Second Reading) by a vote of Yeas-95 to Nays-18, albeit with an exception
amended to the bill for cases of pre-born children conceived by the crime of rape. This denial
of equal protection for the innocent pre-born child in cases of rape, fatally flawed the legal strategy of the bill (i.e., legal personhood) by failing to establish justice for all pre-birth humans.
( www.scstatehouse.gov/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm )
The 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision instructed that if “personhood” for the “fetus” was established at fertilization, with no exceptions, then the legal argument for abortion “collapses.”
“If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [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 )
The Right to Life Act of SC is constitutional, and meets the express requirement set forth by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade to establish personhood for the fetus, thus guaranteeing the right to life of this pre-birth human being, and ending decriminalized abortion in SC.
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Please click here for a printable version of this press release.
PRESS RELEASE
FOR RELEASE: Monday, February 16, 2009
FOR FURTHER INFO:
Contact, Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life,
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net,
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ , http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
(803) 794-6273; PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
[COLUMBIA] The Right to Life Act of South Carolina “Personhood” bill was introduced on Thursday, February 12, in the South Carolina House of Representatives with 45 total sponsors, the most at introduction in the 11 years since the bill was first introduced in February 1998.
The SC House (http://www.scstatehouse.gov/), has a total of 124 members.
SC House bill H.3526, filed by Rep. Liston Barfield (R-Conway), states:
“The right to life for each born and preborn human being vests at fertilization.” and “The rights guaranteed by Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of this State [SC], that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws, vest at fertilization for each born and preborn human person."
( www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/3526.htm )
The Attorney General of SC issued a legal opinion (Mar 2005) that the Right to Life Act of SC is constitutional on its face, though would likely be adjudicated when applied to abortion.
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 )
In 2005, the Right to Life Act of SC passed the full South Carolina House of Representatives on April 13, 2005 (Second Reading) by a vote of Yeas-95 to Nays-18, albeit with an exception
amended to the bill for cases of pre-born children conceived by the crime of rape. This denial
of equal protection for the innocent pre-born child in cases of rape, fatally flawed the legal strategy of the bill (i.e., legal personhood) by failing to establish justice for all pre-birth humans.
( www.scstatehouse.gov/sess116_2005-2006/bills/3213.htm )
The 1973 US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision instructed that if “personhood” for the “fetus” was established at fertilization, with no exceptions, then the legal argument for abortion “collapses.”
“If this suggestion of personhood is established, the [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 )
The Right to Life Act of SC is constitutional, and meets the express requirement set forth by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade to establish personhood for the fetus, thus guaranteeing the right to life of this pre-birth human being, and ending decriminalized abortion in SC.
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February 12, 2009
RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SOUTH CAROLINA PERSONHOOD BILL INTRODUCED - Press Release (E-mail)
RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SOUTH CAROLINA PERSONHOOD BILL INTRODUCED - Press Release
FILED WITH TOTAL 45 SC HOUSE SPONSORS - February 12, 2009
PRESS RELEASE
FOR RELEASE: Monday, February 16, 2009
FOR FURTHER INFO: Contact, Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life,
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net,
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net, www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
(803) 794-6273; PO Box 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
[COLUMBIA] The Right to Life Act of South Carolina “Personhood” bill was introduced on Thursday, February 12, in the South Carolina House of Representatives with 45 total sponsors, the most at introduction in the 11 years since the bill was first introduced in February 1998.
The SC House (http://www.scstatehouse.gov/ ), has a total of 124 members.
SC House bill H.3526, filed by Rep. Liston Barfield (R-Conway), states:
“The right to life for each born and preborn human being vests at fertilization.” and “The rights guaranteed by Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of this State [SC], that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law, nor shall any person be denied the equal protection of the laws, vest at fertilization for each born and preborn human person."
( www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/3526.htm )
press release continued at:
RIGHT TO LIFE ACT OF SOUTH CAROLINA PERSONHOODBILL INTRODUCED - Press Release
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/2009-02-16-RTLActofSC-intro-corr.doc
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2009-2010 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation:
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- GA, MD, ND, SC
Updated February 16, 2009
In addition to the South Carolina "Personhood" Bill reported above, other states with active "Personhood" legislation to ban abortion include:
1) Georgia (HR 5) - Paramount right to life; human beings; provisions (six sponsors)
www.broc.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/sum/hr5.htm
- pre-filed - November 18, 2008
- First Readers - January 16, 2009
- Second Readers - January 26, 2009
2) Maryland (HOUSE BILL 925) - Maryland Personhood Amendment (34 sponsors)
http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/billfile/hb0925.htm
- 2/12 - First Reading Health and Government Operations
3) North Dakota (H.1572) - North Dakota Personhood Bill (one sponsor)
www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-actions/ba1572.html
http://personhoodnorthdakota.com/
- filed January 19, 2009, House Committee hearing February 10, 2009
4) South Carolina (H.3256) - "Right to Life Act of SC" Personhood Bill (45 sponsors)
www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/3526.htm
- filed February 12, 2009, Referred to Committee on Judiciary
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2007-2008 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- AL, CO, GA, MT, SC, VA
Updated February 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/2007-2008-state-level-personhood-and.html
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Personhood Amendment in Colorado (ballot initiative voted on November 4, 2008)
- Historic, first-time-ever, state-wide vote conducted on a "Personhood" Constitutional Amendment
www.coloradoforequalrights.com/
Colorado Personhood Amendment to State Constitution - results of November 4, 2008 ballot initiative
Amendment 48-Definition of Person Results
http://data.denverpost.com/election/results/amendment/2008/48-definition-of-person/
100% reporting ( 3215 precincts )
Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count
No 73.2% (1,605,978)
Yes 26.7% (585,561)
God's requirement for Murder is JUSTICE, not Regulation !!!
"If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
"If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death,
and those that are ready to be slain;
"If thou sayest, Behold we knew it not;
doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it ?
and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it ?
and shall not he render to every man according to his works ?"
Proverbs 24:10-12
Parable of the Good Samaritan
The Saviour said, "Which now of these three, thinkest thou,
was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves ?"
Luke 10:29-37 [ Answer: It was the SAMARITAN, not the religious priest or Levite ! ]
"THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF."
Matthew 19:19
"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God [ including EVANGELISM ] except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking [ i.e., in 20th/21st century America, CHILD-MURDER-BY-ABORTION ], I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ."
"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that one point."
Martin Luther, catalyst of the Reformation
(1483-1546)
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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
"America repent" (music video)
"Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvu6hHLSpzk
"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God."
Psalm 9:17, KJB
"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."
Psalm 94:15, KJB
Biblical "Separation" for a Nation
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,..." 2 Corinthians 6:14-17a (KJB)
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE - IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. The Declaration of Independence is part of the organic law of the United States of America United States Code Annotated http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2007/10/biblical-separation-for-nation.html
The people of Iraq have far greater freedom to enshrine their national religion of Islam in the legal structure of their country than do Americans to honor Christianity and Biblical Law in the United States. Christianity was by far the predominant faith of the founding generations of America, from Jamestown in 1607 to the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and beyond, as the historical record clearly shows:
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
The Sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams (son of John Adams, the Second US President, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence), said: "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." and "From the day of the Declaration... they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct." Tragically, today in 2008, American law has become exceedingly anti-Christian. Witness the government-protected murder of One Million pre-birth human beings each year (www.ldi.org).
The Constitution of the United States should be amended as first proposed by the National Reform Association in 1864, with a Christian Amendment:
Confession of the Saviour (Messiah) as the Ruler of Nations, including America, by amending the Preamble to the United States Constitution
In 1864, the National Reform Association advocated amending the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States to read, in substance:
"We, the people of the United States, humbly acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among the nations, his revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government, and in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the inalienable rights and the blessings of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to ourselves, our posterity, and all the people, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." http://candst.tripod.com/nra.htm
Explicitly Christian Politics: The Vision of the National Reform Association
www.crownandcovenant.com/product_p/ds380.htm
"Since 1864 the National Reform Association has advocated an explicitly Christian approach to politics. In this book their vision of politics, based on the mediatorial reign of Jesus Christ over the nations, is explained for a new generation."
THE NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.;
CONVENTION IN PITTSBURG ON INSERTING A RECOGNITION OF DEITY IN THE CONSTITUTION.
February 5, 1874, Wednesday
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D06E3DF173DE43BBC4D53DFB466838F669FDE
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D06E3DF173DE43BBC4D53DFB466838F669FDE&oref=slogin
Further articles on the National Reform Association
http://www.puritans.net/news/natlreformasso113004.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reform_Association_(19th_century,_U.S.)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200110/ai_n9003100
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 794-6273
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
http://www.lefemineforlife.net/
February 16, 2009
February 10, 2009
Maryland State Constitutional "Personhood" Amendment
State-level Personhood legislation is already being pursued in Maryland, North Dakota, and South Carolina for the 2009-2010 Legislative Session
_______________________________________________
Lawmaker wants to open public debate on ‘the glory of life’
Delegate proposes Personhood Amendment for state Constitution
Kevin Spradlin
Cumberland Times-News [ Maryland ]
www.times-news.com/local/local_story_030231824.html
Published: January 30, 2009
CUMBERLAND A Republican lawmaker from Anne Arundel County is building support for a Personhood Amendment to the state Constitution and plans to introduce a bill “to a somewhat reluctant legislature” as soon as next week.
Delegate Don Dwyer of Glen Burnie discussed some of the finer points of his draft legislation late Wednesday during a conference call organized by supporters from across the country. The call took place less than a week after the 36th annual March for Life in Washington.
“My goal in this whole thing is to open up the public debate on the majesty, the magnificence and the glory of life,” Dwyer said. “I want to force my colleagues to have to recognize that based on science, not rhetoric ... that there is no doubt that that is not mere tissue in a womb ... that is a human being in the process of development by the miracle of life.”
Dwyer said Delegates Wendell Beitzel and LeRoy Myers, both of whom represent portions of Allegany County, are two of more than two dozen supporters of the legislation. But the Judiciary Committee member is in a unique position to understand just what obstacles he faces among colleagues in Annapolis.
“The majority of members of the legislature ... are absolutely adamant pro-choicers,” Dwyer said. “There are going to be some people who do not want to have to look at the fact that life begins at conception.”
Western Maryland appears supportive of his cause. Many of those pro-choice votes come from Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and Baltimore City, Dwyer said.
“The challenge there is going to be to mobilize the Christian base in each of those jurisdictions to look at this issue,” Dwyer said. “That’s a process that’s going to take some time.”
Dwyer said Delegate Joseph Vallario Jr., Judiciary Committee chairman, “committed to me (Tuesday) that he will not stop me or try in any way to impede a public hearing.”
Supporters and those who have advocated a similar amendment at the federal level or in different states helped Dwyer fine-tune some of the language during the call.
[continued...]
Dwyer insisted the focus of his bill is on life and not an anti-abortion stance.
“That’s not at all what I’m going to be focusing on,” he said. “I’m going to talk about life. Abortion isn’t going to be a word I’m going to use in any of my public discussion.”
Admittedly, during private audiences, Dwyer will discuss “the culture of death,” a phrase borrowed from a supporter on the issue. Dwyer said it makes sense society would be numb to “kill the unborn in the womb” when people are regularly exposed to modern music, news broadcasts and videos that appear to condone and glorify such activity.
Contact Kevin Spradlin at kspradlin@times-news.com.
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__________________________________________________________
2009-2010 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation:
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- MD, ND, SC
Updated February 10, 2009
In addition to the Maryland State Constitutional "Personhood" Amendment reported above, other states with active "Personhood" legislation to ban abortion include:
1) North Dakota (H.1572) - filed January 19, 2009, House Committee hearing scheduled February 10, 2009
www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-actions/ba1572.html
http://personhoodnorthdakota.com/
2) South Carolina - "Right to Life Act of SC" Personhood bill presently being circulated in SC House for co-sponsors
www.scstatehouse.gov/
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, "RTL Act of SC" page
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
God's requirement for Murder is JUSTICE, not Regulation !!!
__________________________________________________________
For those who understand that abortion could have been stopped at any time for the last 36 years, and can still be stopped at any time, almost immediately, simply by vesting legal "personhood" status at fertilization, without exceptions for ALL pre-birth human beings, these developments in MD, ND, and SC are good news. Establishing "personhood" at fertilization, with no exceptions, "collapses" the (so-called) legal argument for child-murder-by-abortion, according to the text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision itself !
The "personhood" solution to ending abortion was actually spelled out right in the text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision:
Columbia Christians for Life, Columbia, South Carolina
From: http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, "RTL Act of SC" page:
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
_________________________________________________
2007-2008 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- AL, CO, GA, MT, SC, VA
Updated February 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/2007-2008-state-level-personhood-and.html
_________________________________________________
Personhood Amendment in Colorado (ballot initiative voted on November 4, 2008)
- Historic, first-time-ever, state-wide vote conducted on a "Personhood" Constitutional Amendment
www.coloradoforequalrights.com/
Colorado Personhood Amendment to State Constitution - results of November 4, 2008 ballot initiative
Amendment 48-Definition of Person Results
http://data.denverpost.com/election/results/amendment/2008/48-definition-of-person/
100% reporting ( 3215 precincts )
Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count
No 73.2% (1,605,978)
Yes 26.7% (585,561)
__________________________________________________
For more information on the history of the Right to Life Act of SC and related information, including constitutional principles, and personhood legislation in other states, see, http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, "RTL Act of SC" page and http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
If you would like to work to have introduced in your state, either:
A) a Personhood bill introduced in your state legislature (such as in North Dakota or South Carolina), or
B) a Personhood constitutional amendment introduced in your state legislature (such as in Maryland), or
C) a ballot initiative personhood constitutional amendment process going, and would like some assistance, please call Columbia Christians for Life at 803-794-6273. CCL can help you directly with A) and B) and can put you in touch with those who can provide guidance and counsel with option C). State constitutional personhood amendments have been attempted in at least Michigan, Colorado, and Montana. One of the country's most experienced men in this area is Cal Zastrow.
The gates of hell shall NOT prevail against the church that Messiah is building (Matthew 16:18). However, HE desires to be glorified in and through and by His true church, made up of born-again, Bible-believers (not the Roman Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah Witness, or other institutions of false religion). God works a great deal through "means" - and that includes born-again, Bible-believing, Christians, empowered by the Holy Spirit, rightly representing our Lord and Saviour in spirit and in truth, and advancing Biblical answers, as we do !
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 794-6273
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
www.LefemineForLife.net
February 10, 2009
_______________________________________________
Lawmaker wants to open public debate on ‘the glory of life’
Delegate proposes Personhood Amendment for state Constitution
Kevin Spradlin
Cumberland Times-News [ Maryland ]
www.times-news.com/local/local_story_030231824.html
Published: January 30, 2009
CUMBERLAND A Republican lawmaker from Anne Arundel County is building support for a Personhood Amendment to the state Constitution and plans to introduce a bill “to a somewhat reluctant legislature” as soon as next week.
Delegate Don Dwyer of Glen Burnie discussed some of the finer points of his draft legislation late Wednesday during a conference call organized by supporters from across the country. The call took place less than a week after the 36th annual March for Life in Washington.
“My goal in this whole thing is to open up the public debate on the majesty, the magnificence and the glory of life,” Dwyer said. “I want to force my colleagues to have to recognize that based on science, not rhetoric ... that there is no doubt that that is not mere tissue in a womb ... that is a human being in the process of development by the miracle of life.”
Dwyer said Delegates Wendell Beitzel and LeRoy Myers, both of whom represent portions of Allegany County, are two of more than two dozen supporters of the legislation. But the Judiciary Committee member is in a unique position to understand just what obstacles he faces among colleagues in Annapolis.
“The majority of members of the legislature ... are absolutely adamant pro-choicers,” Dwyer said. “There are going to be some people who do not want to have to look at the fact that life begins at conception.”
Western Maryland appears supportive of his cause. Many of those pro-choice votes come from Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and Baltimore City, Dwyer said.
“The challenge there is going to be to mobilize the Christian base in each of those jurisdictions to look at this issue,” Dwyer said. “That’s a process that’s going to take some time.”
Dwyer said Delegate Joseph Vallario Jr., Judiciary Committee chairman, “committed to me (Tuesday) that he will not stop me or try in any way to impede a public hearing.”
Supporters and those who have advocated a similar amendment at the federal level or in different states helped Dwyer fine-tune some of the language during the call.
[continued...]
Dwyer insisted the focus of his bill is on life and not an anti-abortion stance.
“That’s not at all what I’m going to be focusing on,” he said. “I’m going to talk about life. Abortion isn’t going to be a word I’m going to use in any of my public discussion.”
Admittedly, during private audiences, Dwyer will discuss “the culture of death,” a phrase borrowed from a supporter on the issue. Dwyer said it makes sense society would be numb to “kill the unborn in the womb” when people are regularly exposed to modern music, news broadcasts and videos that appear to condone and glorify such activity.
Contact Kevin Spradlin at kspradlin@times-news.com.
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
2009-2010 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation:
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- MD, ND, SC
Updated February 10, 2009
In addition to the Maryland State Constitutional "Personhood" Amendment reported above, other states with active "Personhood" legislation to ban abortion include:
1) North Dakota (H.1572) - filed January 19, 2009, House Committee hearing scheduled February 10, 2009
www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-actions/ba1572.html
http://personhoodnorthdakota.com/
2) South Carolina - "Right to Life Act of SC" Personhood bill presently being circulated in SC House for co-sponsors
www.scstatehouse.gov/
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, "RTL Act of SC" page
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
God's requirement for Murder is JUSTICE, not Regulation !!!
__________________________________________________________
For those who understand that abortion could have been stopped at any time for the last 36 years, and can still be stopped at any time, almost immediately, simply by vesting legal "personhood" status at fertilization, without exceptions for ALL pre-birth human beings, these developments in MD, ND, and SC are good news. Establishing "personhood" at fertilization, with no exceptions, "collapses" the (so-called) legal argument for child-murder-by-abortion, according to the text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision itself !
The "personhood" solution to ending abortion was actually spelled out right in the text of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision:
Columbia Christians for Life, Columbia, South Carolina
From: http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, "RTL Act of SC" page:
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
_________________________________________________
2007-2008 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- AL, CO, GA, MT, SC, VA
Updated February 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/2007-2008-state-level-personhood-and.html
_________________________________________________
Personhood Amendment in Colorado (ballot initiative voted on November 4, 2008)
- Historic, first-time-ever, state-wide vote conducted on a "Personhood" Constitutional Amendment
www.coloradoforequalrights.com/
Colorado Personhood Amendment to State Constitution - results of November 4, 2008 ballot initiative
Amendment 48-Definition of Person Results
http://data.denverpost.com/election/results/amendment/2008/48-definition-of-person/
100% reporting ( 3215 precincts )
Ballot-Vote Vote percentage Vote count
No 73.2% (1,605,978)
Yes 26.7% (585,561)
__________________________________________________
For more information on the history of the Right to Life Act of SC and related information, including constitutional principles, and personhood legislation in other states, see, http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/, "RTL Act of SC" page and http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
If you would like to work to have introduced in your state, either:
A) a Personhood bill introduced in your state legislature (such as in North Dakota or South Carolina), or
B) a Personhood constitutional amendment introduced in your state legislature (such as in Maryland), or
C) a ballot initiative personhood constitutional amendment process going, and would like some assistance, please call Columbia Christians for Life at 803-794-6273. CCL can help you directly with A) and B) and can put you in touch with those who can provide guidance and counsel with option C). State constitutional personhood amendments have been attempted in at least Michigan, Colorado, and Montana. One of the country's most experienced men in this area is Cal Zastrow.
The gates of hell shall NOT prevail against the church that Messiah is building (Matthew 16:18). However, HE desires to be glorified in and through and by His true church, made up of born-again, Bible-believers (not the Roman Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah Witness, or other institutions of false religion). God works a great deal through "means" - and that includes born-again, Bible-believing, Christians, empowered by the Holy Spirit, rightly representing our Lord and Saviour in spirit and in truth, and advancing Biblical answers, as we do !
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 794-6273
www.ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
www.RighttoLifeActofSC.net
www.LefemineForLife.net
February 10, 2009
February 08, 2009
Interview (audio) broadcast 2/8/09 w/ Steve Lefemine, Columbia Christians for Life, by Gregg Jackson
Truth & Hope with Gregg Jackson Radio Archives
2009
02-8-09
[ first of two interviews; second interview broadcast 02-22-09 ]
Segment 1 (approx. half hour)
Gregg speaks with pro-life activist and missionary and
director of Columbia Christians for Life Steve Lefemine.
www.greggjackson.com/audios/audios.html
- compromise of Republican, USTP/CP parties (correction: Nashville CP meeting was in 2004)
- shedding of innocent blood, corporate bloodguilt (2 Kings 24:1-4, Psalm 106:37-44)
- need for repentance by Christians
- Personhood bills in Congress
- Art. III., Sec. 2. removal of jurisdiction from the U.S. Supreme Court by Congress
- REPENTANCE by the church in America - teaching/preaching on bloodguilt
Broadcast Sunday, February 8, 2009 on KDAR, 98.3 FM, (www.KDAR.com), The Christian Station, Los Angeles, CA
2009
02-8-09
[ first of two interviews; second interview broadcast 02-22-09 ]
Segment 1 (approx. half hour)
Gregg speaks with pro-life activist and missionary and
director of Columbia Christians for Life Steve Lefemine.
www.greggjackson.com/audios/audios.html
- compromise of Republican, USTP/CP parties (correction: Nashville CP meeting was in 2004)
- shedding of innocent blood, corporate bloodguilt (2 Kings 24:1-4, Psalm 106:37-44)
- need for repentance by Christians
- Personhood bills in Congress
- Art. III., Sec. 2. removal of jurisdiction from the U.S. Supreme Court by Congress
- REPENTANCE by the church in America - teaching/preaching on bloodguilt
Broadcast Sunday, February 8, 2009 on KDAR, 98.3 FM, (www.KDAR.com), The Christian Station, Los Angeles, CA
January 30, 2009
Maryland Delegate proposes Personhood Amendment for state Constitution
Lawmaker wants to open public debate on ‘the glory of life’
Delegate proposes Personhood Amendment for state Constitution
Kevin SpradlinCumberland Times-News [ Maryland ]
January 30, 2009
www.times-news.com/local/local_story_030231824.html
— CUMBERLAND — A Republican lawmaker from Anne Arundel County is building support for a
Personhood Amendment to the state Constitution and plans to introduce a bill “to a somewhat reluctant legislature” as soon as next week.
Delegate Don Dwyer of Glen Burnie discussed some of the finer points of his draft legislation late Wednesday during a conference call organized by supporters from across the country. The call took place less than a week after the 36th annual March for Life in Washington.
“My goal in this whole thing is to open up the public debate on the majesty, the magnificence and the glory of life,” Dwyer said. “I want to force my colleagues to have to recognize that based on science, not rhetoric ... that there is no doubt that that is not mere tissue in a womb ... that is a human being in the process of development by the miracle of life.”
Dwyer said Delegates Wendell Beitzel and LeRoy Myers, both of whom represent portions of Allegany County, are two of more than two dozen supporters of the legislation. But the Judiciary Committee member is in a unique position to understand just what obstacles he faces among colleagues in Annapolis.
“The majority of members of the legislature ... are absolutely adamant pro-choicers,” Dwyer said. “There are going to be some people who do not want to have to look at the fact that life begins at conception.”
Western Maryland appears supportive of his cause. Many of those pro-choice votes come from Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and Baltimore City, Dwyer said.
“The challenge there is going to be to mobilize the Christian base in each of those jurisdictions to look at this issue,” Dwyer said. “That’s a process that’s going to take some time.”
Dwyer said Delegate Joseph Vallario Jr., Judiciary Committee chairman, “committed to me (Tuesday) that he will not stop me or try in any way to impede a public hearing.”
Supporters and those who have advocated a similar amendment at the federal level or in different states helped Dwyer fine-tune some of the language during the call.
[continued…]
Dwyer insisted the focus of his bill is on life and not an anti-abortion stance.
“That’s not at all what I’m going to be focusing on,” he said. “I’m going to talk about life. Abortion isn’t going to be a word I’m going to use in any of my public discussion.”
Admittedly, during private audiences, Dwyer will discuss “the culture of death,” a phrase borrowed from a supporter on the issue. Dwyer said it makes sense society would be numb to “kill the unborn in the womb”
when people are regularly exposed to modern music, news broadcasts and videos that appear to condone and glorify such activity.
Contact Kevin Spradlin at kspradlin@times-news.com.
Copyright © 1999-2008 cnhi, inc.
Please click here for a printable version of this article.
Delegate proposes Personhood Amendment for state Constitution
Kevin SpradlinCumberland Times-News [ Maryland ]
January 30, 2009
www.times-news.com/local/local_story_030231824.html
— CUMBERLAND — A Republican lawmaker from Anne Arundel County is building support for a
Personhood Amendment to the state Constitution and plans to introduce a bill “to a somewhat reluctant legislature” as soon as next week.
Delegate Don Dwyer of Glen Burnie discussed some of the finer points of his draft legislation late Wednesday during a conference call organized by supporters from across the country. The call took place less than a week after the 36th annual March for Life in Washington.
“My goal in this whole thing is to open up the public debate on the majesty, the magnificence and the glory of life,” Dwyer said. “I want to force my colleagues to have to recognize that based on science, not rhetoric ... that there is no doubt that that is not mere tissue in a womb ... that is a human being in the process of development by the miracle of life.”
Dwyer said Delegates Wendell Beitzel and LeRoy Myers, both of whom represent portions of Allegany County, are two of more than two dozen supporters of the legislation. But the Judiciary Committee member is in a unique position to understand just what obstacles he faces among colleagues in Annapolis.
“The majority of members of the legislature ... are absolutely adamant pro-choicers,” Dwyer said. “There are going to be some people who do not want to have to look at the fact that life begins at conception.”
Western Maryland appears supportive of his cause. Many of those pro-choice votes come from Montgomery and Prince George’s counties and Baltimore City, Dwyer said.
“The challenge there is going to be to mobilize the Christian base in each of those jurisdictions to look at this issue,” Dwyer said. “That’s a process that’s going to take some time.”
Dwyer said Delegate Joseph Vallario Jr., Judiciary Committee chairman, “committed to me (Tuesday) that he will not stop me or try in any way to impede a public hearing.”
Supporters and those who have advocated a similar amendment at the federal level or in different states helped Dwyer fine-tune some of the language during the call.
[continued…]
Dwyer insisted the focus of his bill is on life and not an anti-abortion stance.
“That’s not at all what I’m going to be focusing on,” he said. “I’m going to talk about life. Abortion isn’t going to be a word I’m going to use in any of my public discussion.”
Admittedly, during private audiences, Dwyer will discuss “the culture of death,” a phrase borrowed from a supporter on the issue. Dwyer said it makes sense society would be numb to “kill the unborn in the womb”
when people are regularly exposed to modern music, news broadcasts and videos that appear to condone and glorify such activity.
Contact Kevin Spradlin at kspradlin@times-news.com.
Copyright © 1999-2008 cnhi, inc.
Please click here for a printable version of this article.
January 28, 2009
Christian principled ‘pro-personhood’ pro-lifers testify against National Right to Life SC chapter’s incremental, abortion/murder-regulation bill:
“Wait 24 hours and then the baby can be killed” – before SC House Constitutional Laws Subcommittee, January 28, 2009
GOD’S REQUIREMENT FOR MURDER IS JUSTICE, NOT INCREMENTAL REGULATION !
Quotes from article below:
www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090128/NEWS01/90128010/1004/NEWS01
‘Opponents at the hearing included two anti-abortion activists, who want abortion outlawed.‘‘ “It’s not God’s will to wait 24 hours and then kill the baby,” said Steve Lefemine, director of Columbia Christians for Life, who can frequently be seen at the Statehouse carrying posters
of aborted fetuses.’
Proponents of the 24-hour waiting period bill include:
“… Rep. Greg Delleney, the sponsor of last year’s law and the current proposal.”
“… Oran Smith, president of the Palmetto Family Council.” [ SC affiliate of Dobson’s Focus on the Family ]
“… Holly Gatling, executive director of South Carolina Citizens for Life.”
Opponents of the 24-hour waiting period bill; in favor instead of SC’s PERSONHOOD bill, include:
“… Steve Lefemine, director of Columbia Christians for Life,…”
See text of “Wait-24-hours-before-killing-the-baby-bill” H.3245 at:
www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/3245.htm
Bill requiring women to wait day before an abortion heads to House
www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090128/NEWS01/90128010/1004/NEWS01
The Associated Press • January 28, 2009
COLUMBIA -- Women seeking an abortion in South Carolina would have to wait at least 24 hours after their ultrasound under a bill given initial approval Wednesday by a House subcommittee.
The measure would increase the waiting time from an hour to a day.
Proponents said it would bring South Carolina in line with other states that have waiting periods and give women time to reflect on the decision. Critics said requiring two trips creates a burden, especially for poor, rural women.
The proposal follows nearly two years of debate on whether to require women to view an ultrasound image before getting an abortion. Under a compromise passed last year, women must be asked whether they want to look at the screen during the procedure or see a printed image -- and sign a form verifying they were given the option.
The compromise kept in the law a 60-minute wait already required after women are handed brochures about fetal development and abortion alternatives.
“But one hour is not enough time to think about it,” said Rep. Greg Delleney, the sponsor of last year’s law and the current proposal. “I’m trying to give the chance for a child waiting to be born to have a birthday.”
He said he didn’t make it an issue last year because he didn’t want to further bog down the law’s passage.
At least 25 other states require waiting times for abortions, and all but two set them at 24 hours -- Indiana, the other, sets an 18-hour minimum, said Oran Smith, president of the Palmetto Family Council.
Several women who had abortions testified they would have changed their mind if they’d had more time to think it through.
“I went blindly, fearfully into a clinic,” said Carla Harvey, a nurse and a volunteer at Lowcountry Crisis Pregnancy Center in Charleston. “They’re in a waiting room. They’re numb. They’re afraid. ... Time really does make a difference.”
Advocates also noted South Carolina requires a daylong wait for a marriage license, and patients have to undergo pre-counseling or classes for many other surgeries, such as for obese patients and hip replacements.
“A waiting period before a final decision regarding abortion is far more critical than any other waiting period,” said Holly Gatling, executive director of South Carolina Citizens for Life. “Before making such a grave and permanent decision, women deserve a 24-hour waiting period that safeguards their dignity, their health and their right to choose life.”
The South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families opposed the measure, calling it extreme and said it could require taking two days off of work and finding transportation. The state needs to focus instead on reducing unintended pregnancies by funding preventive health care, contraception and comprehensive education beyond abstinence only, said coalition lobbyist Brandi Parrish.
Women must make appointments to get an abortion and already spend time agonizing over the decision, she said.
[continued…]
Opponents at the hearing included two anti-abortion activists, who want abortion outlawed.
“It’s not God’s will to wait 24 hours and then kill the baby,” said Steve Lefemine, director of Columbia Christians for Life, who can frequently be seen at the Statehouse carrying posters of aborted fetuses.
The measure stipulates the 24-hour waiting period applies only if an ultrasound is performed. But abortion rights advocates have testified that clinics already perform ultrasounds in nearly all cases to verify how far along the pregnancy is, since state law requires abortion doctors to tell women the likely age of their fetus.
The bill now goes to the full House Judiciary Committee.
Copyright ©2007 The Greenville News. All rights reserved.
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See also the story reported by The State (Columbia, SC) at: www.thestate.com/local/story/666856.html
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GOD’S REQUIREMENT FOR MURDER IS JUSTICE, NOT INCREMENTAL REGULATION !
Quotes from article below:
www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090128/NEWS01/90128010/1004/NEWS01
‘Opponents at the hearing included two anti-abortion activists, who want abortion outlawed.‘‘ “It’s not God’s will to wait 24 hours and then kill the baby,” said Steve Lefemine, director of Columbia Christians for Life, who can frequently be seen at the Statehouse carrying posters
of aborted fetuses.’
Proponents of the 24-hour waiting period bill include:
“… Rep. Greg Delleney, the sponsor of last year’s law and the current proposal.”
“… Oran Smith, president of the Palmetto Family Council.” [ SC affiliate of Dobson’s Focus on the Family ]
“… Holly Gatling, executive director of South Carolina Citizens for Life.”
Opponents of the 24-hour waiting period bill; in favor instead of SC’s PERSONHOOD bill, include:
“… Steve Lefemine, director of Columbia Christians for Life,…”
See text of “Wait-24-hours-before-killing-the-baby-bill” H.3245 at:
www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/3245.htm
Bill requiring women to wait day before an abortion heads to House
www.greenvilleonline.com/article/20090128/NEWS01/90128010/1004/NEWS01
The Associated Press • January 28, 2009
COLUMBIA -- Women seeking an abortion in South Carolina would have to wait at least 24 hours after their ultrasound under a bill given initial approval Wednesday by a House subcommittee.
The measure would increase the waiting time from an hour to a day.
Proponents said it would bring South Carolina in line with other states that have waiting periods and give women time to reflect on the decision. Critics said requiring two trips creates a burden, especially for poor, rural women.
The proposal follows nearly two years of debate on whether to require women to view an ultrasound image before getting an abortion. Under a compromise passed last year, women must be asked whether they want to look at the screen during the procedure or see a printed image -- and sign a form verifying they were given the option.
The compromise kept in the law a 60-minute wait already required after women are handed brochures about fetal development and abortion alternatives.
“But one hour is not enough time to think about it,” said Rep. Greg Delleney, the sponsor of last year’s law and the current proposal. “I’m trying to give the chance for a child waiting to be born to have a birthday.”
He said he didn’t make it an issue last year because he didn’t want to further bog down the law’s passage.
At least 25 other states require waiting times for abortions, and all but two set them at 24 hours -- Indiana, the other, sets an 18-hour minimum, said Oran Smith, president of the Palmetto Family Council.
Several women who had abortions testified they would have changed their mind if they’d had more time to think it through.
“I went blindly, fearfully into a clinic,” said Carla Harvey, a nurse and a volunteer at Lowcountry Crisis Pregnancy Center in Charleston. “They’re in a waiting room. They’re numb. They’re afraid. ... Time really does make a difference.”
Advocates also noted South Carolina requires a daylong wait for a marriage license, and patients have to undergo pre-counseling or classes for many other surgeries, such as for obese patients and hip replacements.
“A waiting period before a final decision regarding abortion is far more critical than any other waiting period,” said Holly Gatling, executive director of South Carolina Citizens for Life. “Before making such a grave and permanent decision, women deserve a 24-hour waiting period that safeguards their dignity, their health and their right to choose life.”
The South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families opposed the measure, calling it extreme and said it could require taking two days off of work and finding transportation. The state needs to focus instead on reducing unintended pregnancies by funding preventive health care, contraception and comprehensive education beyond abstinence only, said coalition lobbyist Brandi Parrish.
Women must make appointments to get an abortion and already spend time agonizing over the decision, she said.
[continued…]
Opponents at the hearing included two anti-abortion activists, who want abortion outlawed.
“It’s not God’s will to wait 24 hours and then kill the baby,” said Steve Lefemine, director of Columbia Christians for Life, who can frequently be seen at the Statehouse carrying posters of aborted fetuses.
The measure stipulates the 24-hour waiting period applies only if an ultrasound is performed. But abortion rights advocates have testified that clinics already perform ultrasounds in nearly all cases to verify how far along the pregnancy is, since state law requires abortion doctors to tell women the likely age of their fetus.
The bill now goes to the full House Judiciary Committee.
Copyright ©2007 The Greenville News. All rights reserved.
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See also the story reported by The State (Columbia, SC) at: www.thestate.com/local/story/666856.html
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January 27, 2009
Catholic Bishops in Georgia, Montana, and Colorado opposed state personhood amendments for the pre-born
Judie Brown is a principled "pro-personhood" pro-lifer. Her national organization, American Life League, has provided information, materials, education, and advocacy for the personhood of the pre-born for many years. Judie Brown is also Roman Catholic. Her accurate article below, reporting the non-support and opposition of the Catholic Bishops in three states: Georgia, Montana, and Colorado, can be verified and readily independently documented by a variety of on-line resources.
"Judie Brown is president and co-founder of American Life League, the nation's largest grassroots pro-life educational organization."
I admire Judie Brown's principled pro-life position and her courage to speak the truth. I also pray she will be delivered from the false teaching of the Roman Catholic religion. If she is not already saved, I pray that she will be born-again, saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in the Saviour alone.
However I will also add that the non-support and opposition of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, as manifested by the non-support and opposition of the seven bishops from three states (GA, MT, CO) mentioned in Judie Brown's informative article below, is paralleled, by the non-support and opposition of the National Right to Life Committee.
Here in South Carolina, the executive director of the SC chapter of National Right to Life actually approached the SC House legislator who was the primary sponsor of the "Right to Life Act of SC" Personhood Bill, and tried to dissuade him from further advocacy of the bill. SC Citizens for Life tried to kill the SC Personhood Bill.
Similar experiences with non-support by National Right to Life has been experienced in other states as well.
So principled "pro-personhood" pro-lifers have two additional enemies they may not have realized were actually working against their efforts to establish personhood for the pre-born with state-level personhood bills and constitutional amendments: the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy (bishops and above, all the way to the Vatican), and National Right to Life.
To paraphrase what Oswald Chambers says in so many words in a couple of his daily devotionals in "My Utmost For His Highest" - "Good" is the ENEMY of God's "Best." The incrementalist, abortion-murder regulation strategy of National Right to Life, is the ENEMY of those principled "pro-personhood" pro-lifers who are working to not just "regulate" abortion, but to END it !
God's requirement for Murder is Justice, not Regulation !
"The Lord reigneth; ... righteousness and judgment are the habitation of His throne."
Psalm 97:1a,2b
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir. Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, South Carolina
January 27, 2009
Read more here.
"Judie Brown is president and co-founder of American Life League, the nation's largest grassroots pro-life educational organization."
I admire Judie Brown's principled pro-life position and her courage to speak the truth. I also pray she will be delivered from the false teaching of the Roman Catholic religion. If she is not already saved, I pray that she will be born-again, saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in the Saviour alone.
However I will also add that the non-support and opposition of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, as manifested by the non-support and opposition of the seven bishops from three states (GA, MT, CO) mentioned in Judie Brown's informative article below, is paralleled, by the non-support and opposition of the National Right to Life Committee.
Here in South Carolina, the executive director of the SC chapter of National Right to Life actually approached the SC House legislator who was the primary sponsor of the "Right to Life Act of SC" Personhood Bill, and tried to dissuade him from further advocacy of the bill. SC Citizens for Life tried to kill the SC Personhood Bill.
Similar experiences with non-support by National Right to Life has been experienced in other states as well.
So principled "pro-personhood" pro-lifers have two additional enemies they may not have realized were actually working against their efforts to establish personhood for the pre-born with state-level personhood bills and constitutional amendments: the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy (bishops and above, all the way to the Vatican), and National Right to Life.
To paraphrase what Oswald Chambers says in so many words in a couple of his daily devotionals in "My Utmost For His Highest" - "Good" is the ENEMY of God's "Best." The incrementalist, abortion-murder regulation strategy of National Right to Life, is the ENEMY of those principled "pro-personhood" pro-lifers who are working to not just "regulate" abortion, but to END it !
God's requirement for Murder is Justice, not Regulation !
"The Lord reigneth; ... righteousness and judgment are the habitation of His throne."
Psalm 97:1a,2b
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir. Columbia Christians for Life
Columbia, South Carolina
January 27, 2009
Read more here.
January 13, 2009
Prophetic pro-life witness 1st day of 2009 SC Legislative Session
January 13, 2009, first day of 2009 South Carolina Legislative Session SC State House, Columbia, SC
With signs all around us that GOD IS JUDGING AMERICA, the South Carolina Legislature was welcomed back to the SC State House with yet another prophetic witness regarding the murder of preborn children [approx. 7,000/year] in this so-called "Bible-belt" (?) state.
America is being judged
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85871
World Net Daily, Joseph Farah, January 12, 2009
After TEN YEARS (since 1998), the South Carolina Legislature and SC Governor have thus far refused to pass the "Right to Life Act of SC" "Personhood" Bill to END abortion in South Carolina, instead of perpetually regulating it according to the failed, unbiblical strategy of the incremental abortion (child-murder) regulators (such as National Right to Life and most of their state chapters, including the ecumenical SC chapter). God's requirement for Murder is Justice, not Regulation !
All these years and years of murder-regulation bills have proven to be a distraction from what even the language of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision itself says is necessary to end abortion: PERSONHOOD for the preborn child, with NO EXCEPTIONS.
See http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ , Homepage and "RTL Act of SC" page, and "RighttoLifeActofSC.net" for history of "Personhood" Bill in South Carolina, and several other states.
Anne Rainville
Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn
First Floor Lobby, SC State House
Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn
First Floor Lobby, SC State House
_________________________________________________
It's well past time to pass "Personhood" legislation. Abortion could have been ended 36 years ago, in 1973, with state and federal "Personhood" bills. The opportunity is still there, and thankfully, the "Personhood" vision is growing. On November 4, 2008, for the first time, there was a statewide vote on a Colorado state-level "Personhood" constitutional amendment. Although it failed, it did much to spread the "Personhood" vision across the nation.
The Bible says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he."
Proverb 29:18, KJB
It's time we who are pro-life and anti-abortion kept our eyes on "Keeping God's Law" - specifically, His Law in the Sixth Commandment: "Thou shalt not kill [murder]." Period. No Exceptions. No Murder Regulation (wait an hour, look at some literature, get a teen's parent to sign, etc. and then kill then baby).
It is time for born-again Christians to repent of following the lead of the Vatican's front organization, National Right to Life, which was originally founded by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, with its unbiblical positions and strategies (e.g., NRL endorsed pro-abort John McCain in 2008), and start following the Word of God in Exodus 20:13, and the Author of His Word, Who Alone is today, King of kings ! (1 Timothy 6:15). God is (and always has been) King of all the earth ! (Psalm 47:7).
_________________________________________________
Two pages of the 4-page handout distributed in the SC State House and Stae House Complex today can be seen in the attachments below:
C:\Users\Steve\Documents\Old F\~WORDAT\BUD09-01.doc;
C:\Users\Steve\Documents\Old F\~WORDAT\REP09-01a.doc;
__________________________________________________
January 13, 2009
A Message To:
S.C. House Members,
S.C. Senate Members,
Governor Mark Sanford:
From: Columbia Christians for Life, dir., Steve Lefemine
POB 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 794-6273;
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
A Biblically-based, Constitutional, Pro-Life Agenda for the Year 2009 South Carolina Legislative Session will include:
[continued]
__________________________________________________
and
__________________________________________________
REPENTANCE FOR AMERICA'S BLOODGUILT
OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE
Sunday, January 18, 2009
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
SC State House, south steps
[continued]
___________________________________________________
Forget the US Supreme Court. The Congress is able to pass legislation to strip jurisdiction on this matter according to Article III., Section 2. of the US Constitution. And if even the 7-2 pro-abortion Supreme Court of 1973 could write into the text of the Roe decision that establishing "Personhood" "collapses" the legal argument for abortion, then that is what every principled pro-lifer in America should be working toward. Forget the foolish, time-energy-and-resources wasting abortion (murder) regulation strategy of National Right to Life. Forget National Right to Life. And find a principled Christian pro-life legislator in your State Legislature to introduce one of the various forms of state-level "Personhood" Legislation, and start aiming at the right target - to END ABORTION !
2007-2008 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- AL, CO, GA, MT, SC, VA
Updated February 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/2007-2008-state-level-personhood-and.html
It is time to introduce "Personhood" legislation in every State House in the nation that will. And for those States that will not, they are violative of the principles of the Declaration of Independence (as all 50 are right now !), including the Creator-endowed unalienable right to life. Such States, in my opinion, should either withdraw from, or be thrown out of, the Union if they will not adhere to its founding, covenantal principles. If child-murder is permitted in America, anyplace in America, then the Declaration of Independence of 1776 has lost its meaning.
Steve Lefemine
January 13, 2009
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
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
"America repent" (music video)
"Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvu6hHLSpzk
"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God."
Psalm 9:17, KJB
"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."
Psalm 94:15, KJB
Biblical "Separation" for a Nation
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,..." 2 Corinthians 6:14-17a (KJB)
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE - IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
The Declaration of Independence is part of the organic law of the United States of America United States Code Annotated
http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2007/10/biblical-separation-for-nation.html
The people of Iraq have far greater freedom to enshrine their national religion of Islam in the legal structure of their country than do Americans to honor Christianity and Biblical Law in the United States. Christianity was by far the predominant faith of the founding generations of America, from Jamestown in 1607 to the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and beyond, as the historical record clearly shows:
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
The Sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams (son of John Adams, the Second US President, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence), said: "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." and "From the day of the Declaration... they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct."
Tragically, today in 2008, American law has become exceedingly anti-Christian. Witness the government-protected murder of One Million pre-birth human beings each year (http://www.ldi.org/ ).
The Constitution of the United States should be amended as first proposed by the National Reform Association in 1864, with a Christian Amendment:
Confession of the Saviour (Messiah) as the Ruler of Nations, including America, by amending the Preamble to the United States Constitution
In 1864, the National Reform Association advocated amending the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States to read, in substance:
"We, the people of the United States, humbly acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among the nations, his revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government, and in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the inalienable rights and the blessings of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to ourselves, our posterity, and all the people, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." http://candst.tripod.com/nra.htm
Explicitly Christian Politics: The Vision of the National Reform Association
www.crownandcovenant.com/product_p/ds380.htm
"Since 1864 the National Reform Association has advocated an explicitly Christian approach to politics. In this book their vision of politics, based on the mediatorial reign of Jesus Christ over the nations, is explained for a new generation."
THE NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.;
CONVENTION IN PITTSBURG ON INSERTING A RECOGNITION OF DEITY IN THE CONSTITUTION.
February 5, 1874, Wednesday
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D06E3DF173DE43BBC4D53DFB466838F669FDE
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D06E3DF173DE43BBC4D53DFB466838F669FDE&oref=slogin
Further articles on the National Reform Association
http://www.puritans.net/news/natlreformasso113004.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reform_Association_(19th_century,_U.S.)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200110/ai_n9003100
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 794-6273
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
http://www.lefemineforlife.net/
January 13, 2009
With signs all around us that GOD IS JUDGING AMERICA, the South Carolina Legislature was welcomed back to the SC State House with yet another prophetic witness regarding the murder of preborn children [approx. 7,000/year] in this so-called "Bible-belt" (?) state.
America is being judged
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85871
World Net Daily, Joseph Farah, January 12, 2009
After TEN YEARS (since 1998), the South Carolina Legislature and SC Governor have thus far refused to pass the "Right to Life Act of SC" "Personhood" Bill to END abortion in South Carolina, instead of perpetually regulating it according to the failed, unbiblical strategy of the incremental abortion (child-murder) regulators (such as National Right to Life and most of their state chapters, including the ecumenical SC chapter). God's requirement for Murder is Justice, not Regulation !
All these years and years of murder-regulation bills have proven to be a distraction from what even the language of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision itself says is necessary to end abortion: PERSONHOOD for the preborn child, with NO EXCEPTIONS.
See http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/ , Homepage and "RTL Act of SC" page, and "RighttoLifeActofSC.net" for history of "Personhood" Bill in South Carolina, and several other states.
Anne Rainville
Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn
First Floor Lobby, SC State House
Steve Lefemine, dir., Columbia Christians for Life
Johnny Gardner, dir., Voice of the Unborn
First Floor Lobby, SC State House
_________________________________________________
It's well past time to pass "Personhood" legislation. Abortion could have been ended 36 years ago, in 1973, with state and federal "Personhood" bills. The opportunity is still there, and thankfully, the "Personhood" vision is growing. On November 4, 2008, for the first time, there was a statewide vote on a Colorado state-level "Personhood" constitutional amendment. Although it failed, it did much to spread the "Personhood" vision across the nation.
The Bible says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he."
Proverb 29:18, KJB
It's time we who are pro-life and anti-abortion kept our eyes on "Keeping God's Law" - specifically, His Law in the Sixth Commandment: "Thou shalt not kill [murder]." Period. No Exceptions. No Murder Regulation (wait an hour, look at some literature, get a teen's parent to sign, etc. and then kill then baby).
It is time for born-again Christians to repent of following the lead of the Vatican's front organization, National Right to Life, which was originally founded by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, with its unbiblical positions and strategies (e.g., NRL endorsed pro-abort John McCain in 2008), and start following the Word of God in Exodus 20:13, and the Author of His Word, Who Alone is today, King of kings ! (1 Timothy 6:15). God is (and always has been) King of all the earth ! (Psalm 47:7).
_________________________________________________
Two pages of the 4-page handout distributed in the SC State House and Stae House Complex today can be seen in the attachments below:
C:\Users\Steve\Documents\Old F\~WORDAT\BUD09-01.doc;
C:\Users\Steve\Documents\Old F\~WORDAT\REP09-01a.doc;
__________________________________________________
January 13, 2009
A Message To:
S.C. House Members,
S.C. Senate Members,
Governor Mark Sanford:
From: Columbia Christians for Life, dir., Steve Lefemine
POB 50358, Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 794-6273;
CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
A Biblically-based, Constitutional, Pro-Life Agenda for the Year 2009 South Carolina Legislative Session will include:
[continued]
__________________________________________________
and
__________________________________________________
REPENTANCE FOR AMERICA'S BLOODGUILT
OUTDOOR WORSHIP SERVICE
Sunday, January 18, 2009
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
SC State House, south steps
[continued]
___________________________________________________
Forget the US Supreme Court. The Congress is able to pass legislation to strip jurisdiction on this matter according to Article III., Section 2. of the US Constitution. And if even the 7-2 pro-abortion Supreme Court of 1973 could write into the text of the Roe decision that establishing "Personhood" "collapses" the legal argument for abortion, then that is what every principled pro-lifer in America should be working toward. Forget the foolish, time-energy-and-resources wasting abortion (murder) regulation strategy of National Right to Life. Forget National Right to Life. And find a principled Christian pro-life legislator in your State Legislature to introduce one of the various forms of state-level "Personhood" Legislation, and start aiming at the right target - to END ABORTION !
2007-2008 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- AL, CO, GA, MT, SC, VA
Updated February 14, 2008
http://righttolifeactofsc.blogspot.com/2008/02/2007-2008-state-level-personhood-and.html
It is time to introduce "Personhood" legislation in every State House in the nation that will. And for those States that will not, they are violative of the principles of the Declaration of Independence (as all 50 are right now !), including the Creator-endowed unalienable right to life. Such States, in my opinion, should either withdraw from, or be thrown out of, the Union if they will not adhere to its founding, covenantal principles. If child-murder is permitted in America, anyplace in America, then the Declaration of Independence of 1776 has lost its meaning.
Steve Lefemine
January 13, 2009
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
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
"America repent" (music video)
"Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvu6hHLSpzk
"The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God."
Psalm 9:17, KJB
"But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it."
Psalm 94:15, KJB
Biblical "Separation" for a Nation
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,..." 2 Corinthians 6:14-17a (KJB)
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE - IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
The Declaration of Independence is part of the organic law of the United States of America United States Code Annotated
http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2007/10/biblical-separation-for-nation.html
The people of Iraq have far greater freedom to enshrine their national religion of Islam in the legal structure of their country than do Americans to honor Christianity and Biblical Law in the United States. Christianity was by far the predominant faith of the founding generations of America, from Jamestown in 1607 to the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and beyond, as the historical record clearly shows:
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
The Sixth President of the United States, John Quincy Adams (son of John Adams, the Second US President, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence), said: "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." and "From the day of the Declaration... they (the American people) were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of The Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct."
Tragically, today in 2008, American law has become exceedingly anti-Christian. Witness the government-protected murder of One Million pre-birth human beings each year (http://www.ldi.org/ ).
The Constitution of the United States should be amended as first proposed by the National Reform Association in 1864, with a Christian Amendment:
Confession of the Saviour (Messiah) as the Ruler of Nations, including America, by amending the Preamble to the United States Constitution
In 1864, the National Reform Association advocated amending the Preamble of the Constitution of the United States to read, in substance:
"We, the people of the United States, humbly acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government, the Lord Jesus Christ as the Ruler among the nations, his revealed will as the supreme law of the land, in order to constitute a Christian government, and in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the inalienable rights and the blessings of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to ourselves, our posterity, and all the people, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." http://candst.tripod.com/nra.htm
Explicitly Christian Politics: The Vision of the National Reform Association
www.crownandcovenant.com/product_p/ds380.htm
"Since 1864 the National Reform Association has advocated an explicitly Christian approach to politics. In this book their vision of politics, based on the mediatorial reign of Jesus Christ over the nations, is explained for a new generation."
THE NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.;
CONVENTION IN PITTSBURG ON INSERTING A RECOGNITION OF DEITY IN THE CONSTITUTION.
February 5, 1874, Wednesday
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D06E3DF173DE43BBC4D53DFB466838F669FDE
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9D06E3DF173DE43BBC4D53DFB466838F669FDE&oref=slogin
Further articles on the National Reform Association
http://www.puritans.net/news/natlreformasso113004.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reform_Association_(19th_century,_U.S.)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200110/ai_n9003100
"... I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Matthew 16:18
Yeshua Messiah
Hallelu-Yah !
Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC
(803) 794-6273
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
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January 13, 2009
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