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CCL Press Release

February 19, 2009

2009-02-19-Personhood-Senate-intror.doc



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@,

,

(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 () 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."

( 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.

( 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.

( 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, )

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

2009-02-19-Personhood-Senate-intror.doc

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2009-2010 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation:

- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments

- ALA, GA, MD, MONT, ND, SC

Updated February 19, 2009

In addition to the South Carolina "Personhood" Bill reported above, other states

with active "Personhood" legislation to ban abortion include:

1) Alabama (SB335) - Person, definition of for Code construction includes human being

from moment of fertilization (sponsor: Senator Hank Erwin)



First Reading - 02/10/2009; Pending Committee Action in Senate Judiciary

2) Georgia (HR 5) - Paramount right to life; human beings; provisions (six sponsors)

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

3) Maryland (HOUSE BILL 925) - Maryland Personhood Amendment (34 sponsors)



- 2/12 - First Reading Health and Government Operations

4) Montana (SB 406) - Constitutionally define person (sponsor: Senator Daniel McGee)

$.startup (enter SB 406)

Introduced - 02/09/2009, Hearing - 02/19/2009 (Judiciary)

5) North Dakota (H.1572) - North Dakota Personhood Bill (sponsor: Rep. Dan Ruby)

legis.assembly/61-2009/bill-actions/ba1572.html





- filed January 19, 2009, House Committee hearing February 10, 2009, passed by North Dakota House,

by vote of 51 Y - 41 N, on February 17

6) South Carolina (H.3256 / S.450) - South Carolina Personhood Bills

SC House (48 sponsors) / SC Senate (11 sponsors)

SC House Personhood Bill:

sess118_2009-2010/bills/3526.htm

- filed February 12, 2009, Referred to Committee on Judiciary

SC Senate Personhood Bill:

sess118_2009-2010/bills/450.htm

- filed February 18, 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



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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



Colorado Personhood Amendment to State Constitution - results of November 4, 2008 ballot initiative

Amendment 48-Definition of Person Results



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"

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



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

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 ().

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."

Explicitly Christian Politics: The Vision of the National Reform Association

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





Further articles on the National Reform Association



(19th_century,_U.S.)



"... 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







February 19, 2009

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