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Press Release

Columbia Christians for Life

October 20, 2010

Romanist Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum Opposes Colorado Personhood Amendment

Dame of Malta, Phyllis Schlafly of the Roman Catholic Establishment is yet another prominent

Roman Catholic voice against recognizing now, the God-given, unalienable right to life of every human being as a "Person" beginning at fertilization, in State statutory or constitutional law. Multiple States over the years have been pursuing this principled pro-life effort to END "abortion" in America.

The three major enemies of State-level personhood amendments to END "abortion" in America are:

1) ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS [ appointed by the Pope ]

2) NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE, and

3) AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE.

Perhaps the # 4 major enemy of State-level personhood amendments to END "abortion" in America is:

4) EAGLE FORUM

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Montana chapter of Rome's National Right to Life also opposes

Montana Personhood Constitutional Amendment ballot initiative

Bible-believing Christian and other principled pro-personhood pro-lifers:

- PLEASE DO NOT HEED THE FALSE COUNSEL of ROME'S ENEMIES

OF STATE PERSONHOOD BILLS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS:

- These are the three principal Romanist enemies of the many efforts to

recognize the God-given, unalienable right to life of every human being

as a "person" beginning at fertilization, in State Constitutional and/or Statutory law:

1) ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS [ appointed by the Pope ]

2) NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE, and

3) AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE.



June 18, 2010 / Corrected and Revised June 27, 2010

MISSOURI ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS REJECT MISSOURI PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT:

Now at least Seven States' Roman Catholic Bishops have opposed Personhood efforts

Roman Catholic Bishops of these Seven States have OPPOSED State-Level Personhood legislation:

- MICHIGAN: 2006

- GEORGIA: 2008

- COLORADO: 2008 & 2009 & 2010

- MONTANA: 2008 & 2009

- NORTH DAKOTA: 2009

- FLORIDA: 2009

- MISSOURI: 2010 [ April 19, 2010 ]



May 20, 2010 / Corrected and Revised May 22, 2010

National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) originally founded in 1968 under the auspices

of the National Conference of [ Roman ] Catholic Bishops (NCCB)

"The Supreme Court decision of January 22, 1973, overthrowing all existing abortion laws, led

to an enormous growth in the movement. The National Right to Life Committee which had

been founded in 1968 under the auspices of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops,

in 1973 became autonomous and non-sectarian. It is the largest and most influential national

organization, with well over two thousand local affiliates by the 1980s."

Posted August 1, 2010





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Eagle Forum Opposes Personhood Amendment

ics/life/personhood.html

November 30, 2009

[ emphasis added ]

The "personhood" initiative lost by a landslide of 73% to 27% in Colorado in 2008, and its unpopular coattails hurt good pro-life candidates there. This poorly designed initiative would not prevent a single abortion even it if became law, and its vague language would enable more mischief by judges.

Now its organizers, who provide little information about themselves or their funding, spread their disaster to key swing states like Florida, Missouri, Nevada and Montana. This hurtful effort misleads pro-lifers with the false hope that a referendum can overturn Roe v. Wade, when only the U.S. Supreme Court can do that. This enriches pro-abortion groups with a fundraising issue as they claim to preserve abortion by suing to stop this initiative,

and they have already filed several lawsuits.

Florida's Catholic Bishops recently banned the collection of any signatures for this ill-advised initiative at churches there, and most pro-life groups also oppose this initiative. We encourage support of pro-life candidates, and oppose hurtful gimmicks like the personhood initiative.

[ CCL Note: Anti-State-Level Personhood Amendment, and advocate of "exceptions" in "pro-life [ sic ] legislation,

James Bopp, Jr. is the general (legal) counsel for the National Right to Life Committee. Bopp's 2007

Memorandum also defends the unbiblical acceptance of "exceptions" to "abortion" for rape, incest,

fetal deformity, and "harm to the mother" in "pro-life" [sic] legislation. (see more information on

Mr. Bopp further below) ]

Legal Memorandum Against Personhood Amendments

[ emphasis added ]

In this 11-page legal memorandum dated August 7, 2007, noted pro-life [ CCL: sic ] attorney James Bopp explains why a state personhood amendment cannot overturn Roe v. Wade and other U.S. Supreme Court decisions that legalized abortion.

Mr. Bopp also explains that if a state personhood amendment goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, "there is the potential danger that the Court might actually make things worse than they presently are." That would be the result if the Supreme Court ­ augmented by new Justices appointed by Barack Obama ­ adopts the position long advocated by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and begins deciding abortion cases under the equal protection clause of the

14th Amendment instead of the due process clause.

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The Personhood Amendment is a Mistake

ics/life/2010/personhood-5-06-2010.pdf

EAGLE FORUM

Phyllis Schlafly, President

May 6, 2010

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Colorado Eagle Forum Opposes Personhood Amendment

ics/life/2010/CO-personhood.html

August 31, 2009

The Colorado Chapter of National Eagle Forum is joining with other chapters across the country in opposition

of the re-introduction of the Personhood Amendment in their states. It is, at least in part, because of the reasons

set forth by James Bopp Jr., National Right to Life's attorney, who outlined the unintended consequences in a 2007

memo that is relevant to the Colorado amendment. A state law or state constitutional amendment cannot overturn the

U. S. Constitution or a decision of the U. S. Supreme Court. If the personhood Amendment were to pass, unborn babies

would be in more danger than they are under Roe v. Wade because a new Court case would give the pro-abortion Justices

the opportunity to change their legal theory from the one used in Roe v. Wade (the right to privacy) to the legal theory espoused for many years (including again this month) by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (that abortion should be legalized

as an issue of gender discrimination). This shift in legal theory could enable judges to outlaw all pro-life laws enacted in

the last 40 years, including the Hyde Amendment.

Do we really want our new pro-abortion member of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ms. Sotomayor, having the final say on

a life issue?

Jayne Schindler, Pres. Colorado Eagle Forum

Resolution

[ CCL Note: Notice that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, National Right to Life, and

Americans United for Life are all named in the Resolution below as being among

those organizations whose "legal experts" "almost without exception" are opposed

to "Personhood Amendments." ]

[ emphasis added ]

WHEREAS, many pro-life citizens have become frustrated in their attempts to re-criminalize abortion since it was made legal in Colorado 43 years ago and in all 50 states 37 years ago; and

WHEREAS, one attempt to re-criminalize abortion is by introduction of citizen initiatives called "Personhood Amendments,"

which would purport to establish the fact that unborn babies are "persons" under the law and would therefore have protection under the U.S. Constitution; and

WHEREAS, this tactic has been thoroughly studied by the most knowledgeable and experienced legal experts of

several pro-life organizations, including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; National Right to Life Committee; Eagle Forum; and Americans United for Life, a Chicago-based lawyers group and the oldest pro-life organization in the nation; and

WHEREAS, almost without exception, these legal experts warn that if such initiatives pass, they will certainly

be challenged in the courts and, given the present make-up of the state and federal courts, they will be overturned, thus having diverted considerable time, effort, and resources on the part of the pro-life movement; and

WHEREAS, these same legal experts further warn that court rulings against such measures could also do more harm by more firmly entrenching the "non-personhood" status of unborn babies, thus having the opposite effect of the proponents of the initiatives; now therefore be it

RESOLVED, that the ____________ County Republican Party commend the intentions of those who wish to re-criminalize abortion, but urge such individuals and groups to reconsider their tactics in attempting to do so until enough state and federal officials are elected who will appoint and approve more judges who respect the value of human life; and be it further

RESOLVED, that the ____________ County Republican Party not divert its efforts to restore Republican values to American government and society by expending resources in support of the "Personhood Amendment" now being promoted in Colorado.

Jayne and Jim Schindler, Directors of Colorado Eagle Forum

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KUSA-TV9 - NBC

Colorado

"Eagle Forum is strongly pro-life [ CCL: sic ], but they are strongly opposed to any type of personhood amendments..."

news/article.aspx?storyid=154211&catid=188

(KUSA-TV © 2010 Multimedia Holdings Corporation)

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From Columbia Christians for Life:

ESTABLISHING PERSONHOOD FOR THE PRE-BORN, AT FERTILIZATION,

WITH NO "EXCEPTIONS", IS THE KEY TO ENDING "ABORTION"

"PERSONHOOD" is the KEY to ENDING Child-Murder-by-"Abortion" - listen to the words

of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices themselves in the second Oral Argument of the

Roe v. Wade case (1973):

(AUDIO) "In Their Own Words" - U.S. Supreme Court

Actual audio excerpts of the second Oral Arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court

in the Roe v. Wade case (decision published January 22, 1973) - Argued on October 11, 1972

approach.htm

Recognition of unborn children as persons is the "KEY" to overturning Roe v. Wade

CHILD-MURDER BY "ABORTION" CAN BE ENDED BY RECOGNIZING THE PERSONHOOD

OF PRE-BIRTH HUMAN BEINGS, AT FERTILIZATION, WITHOUT EXCEPTIONS.

President Ronald Reagan PERSONHOOD PROCLAMATION - January 14, 1988

President of the United States of America, Proclamation 5761, National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 1988

- "The unalienable right to life is found not only in the Declaration of Independence but also in the Constitution

that every President is sworn to preserve, protect, and defend. Both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments

guarantee that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."

- "NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority

vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare the unalienable

personhood of every American, from the moment of conception until natural death, ..."

reagan/index.php

PRO-PERSONHOOD ATTORNEYS WRITING ON PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

IN MICHIGAN AND MISSISSIPPI:

Re: 2006 Proposed Michigan Personhood Constitutional Amendment

Professor Charles E. Rice, Professor Emeritus of Law, Notre Dame (Roman Catholic) Letter

downloads/sb_thomasmore/ProfRiceletter.pdf

April 19, 2006

Re: 2009 Proposed Mississippi Personhood Constitutional Amendment

LIBERTY COUNSEL

Legal Memorandum on the Mississippi Personhood Amendment - 2009



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Additional reports and information:

See also , "Home" and "RTL Act of SC" pages,

and

1) NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE

National Right to Life Committee 30+ year general (legal) counsel, James Bopp, Jr.

wrote a 2007 Memorandum opposing State-level Personhood Legislation, and defending

acceptance of multiple "exceptions" in "pro-life" [sic] legislation, and proposing a litany

of incremental, "abortion"/murder regulation bills.

James Bopp, Jr. (senior partner of Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom’s law firm) and the National Right to Life Committee’s general (legal) counsel in an August 7, 2007 Memorandum Re: "Pro-Life Strategy Issues" attacked State-level personhood amendments; specifically the Georgia Human Life (Personhood) Amendment - which THE TWO GEORGIA ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS PUBLICLY OPPOSED IN JANUARY 2008. Bopp's 2007 Memorandum

also defended the acceptance of "exceptions" for rape, incest, fetal deformity, and "harm to the mother" in

"pro-life" [sic] legislation, while suggesting and promoting a litany of incremental, "abortion"/murder regulation bills, in essence, "First do this or that, "AND THEN YOU CAN KILL THE BABY."

( Bopp's 2007 Memorandum - docs/BoppMemorandum1.pdf )

Note: James Bopp, Jr. has served as general counsel for National Right to Life since 1978, and as the special

counsel for Focus on the Family since 2004. Bopp aslo served as an advisor for pro-abort, pro-sodomite,

Mormon Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. THIS HELPS EXPLAIN WHY NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE

STATE CHAPTERS AND THE FOCUS ON THE FAMILY STATE AFFILIATES ARE IN MOST ALL CASES

NOT SUPPORTING STATE-LEVEL PERSONHOOD LEGISLATION AROUND THE COUNTRY.

The National Right to Life Committee was first organized under the auspices of the then-National Conference

of Catholic Bishops in 1968 (FIVE YEARS BEFORE ROE V. WADE IN 1973 ! ???), and then became allegedly "autonomous" [sic] and "non-sectarian" in 1973. [ Source: Dictionary of Christianity [sic] in America, Coordinating Editor, Daniel G. Reid, “Right to Life.”, K.M. Cassidy, 1990 ]



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2) AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE

CFR / Georgetown / Jesuit-advised, Americans United for Life Senior Legal Counsel,

Clarke Forsythe

AUL claims to have been "Founded in 1971 as the first national pro-life organization in the United States"

and touts its efforts in pursuing a number of incrementalist "abortion"/murder regulation legislative measures - however advancing personhood legislation to actually END "abortion" is not on the list on the "About AUL" page. The lists of AUL Directors and Advisory Board members includes two CFR members ( George S. Weigel, Jr. and Robert P. George ); a Roman Catholic Jesuit (S.J.) priest (Kevin T. FitzGerald, S.J.), who is also on the staff of the

Jesuit Georgetown University Medical Center; and another Jesuit Georgetown University Medical Center staffer

(Edward R. Grant, Esq.) as well.

Clarke Forsythe, senior legal counsel of Americans United for Life ( CFR / Jesuit / Jesuit Georgetown University staff on AUL's Directors / Advisors ) opposes State-Level Personhood Legislation: Forsythe attacked the State-level personhood position on the Columbia Christians for Life website in postings on National Review Online

( National Review magazine, founded by the late neo-con William Buckley - CFR-member, Bilderberger,

Skull and Bones member, Roman Catholic, Knight of Malta, The Heritage Foundation, is a prominent false flag "conservative" propaganda tool of the Vatican / Jesuit / Papal New World Order, providing a media platform for members of the Jesuit-Ruled Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) ), and also on another Romanist website,

the Rosary-promoting, "National-Right-to-Life-friendly" .

FORSYTHE'S DILEMMA: LEGAL POSITIVISM

newsroom_judieblog.php?id=2781

Posted: Tuesday September 29, 2009 at 4:11 pm EST by Judie Brown

ATTACK BY CFR / JESUIT-ADVISED AMERICANS UNITED FOR "LIFE" [sic]

ON THE PERSONHOOD POSITION OF COLUMBIA CHRISTIANS FOR LIFE:

Romanist, Jesuit-advised, Americans United for "Life" [sic] senior legal counsel attacks CCL's "Personhood" position

Americans United for "Life" [sic] has been an opponent of State-level Personhood Legislation to END abortion.

September 21, 2009

2009-09-21-Romanist-Jesuit-advised-Americans-United-for-Life-sr-legal-counsel-attacks-CCL-Personhood-position.doc

Catholic CFR-members (two) on Americans United for Life (AUL) Directors/Advisory Boards;

AUL Sr. Legal Counsel attacked Columbia Christians for Life Personhood position

AUL Board of Directors - Catholic CFR-member George S. Weigel, Jr., Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC

AUL Board of Advisors - Catholic CFR-member Professor Robert P. George, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

September 22, 2009

2009-09-22-Catholic-CFR-members-Americans-United-for-Life-AUL-Directors-Advisory-Boards.doc

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STATE-LEVEL PERSONHOOD BILLS and CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

2009 - 2010 - 16 States have had Personhood Legislation Efforts Filed

in State Legislatures or as Ballot Initiatives

Summary Report: 14 States have current Personhood Legislation efforts filed:

- ALA, ALASK, CA, CO, FL, GA, MD, MICH, MISS, MO, MONT, NV, OR, SC

- a/o December 3, 2009 / Revised April 7, 2010

2009-12-03-Summary-Report-14-States-current-Personhood-Legis-efforts-filed.doc

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

- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments

- ALA, ALASK, CA, CO, FL, GA, MD, MICH, MISS, MO, MONT, ND, NV, OR, SC, VA

Updated December 3, 2009 / Revised April 7, 2010

2009-12-03-2009-2010-State-Level-Personhood-and-other-selected-Legislation.doc

Personhood State Constitutional Amendment introduced In Iowa Legislature

Iowa is one of 16 States which have had Personhood Legislation filed in 2009-2010.

January 20, 2010



Personhood State Constitutional Amendment Re-introduced in Maryland Legislature

Maryland is one of 16 States which have had Personhood Legislation filed in 2009-2010.

February 17, 2010



Personhood Amendment Certified for Colorado Ballot for November 2010

Colorado Secretary of State has certified the Personhood Amendment, called Amendment 62

March 26, 2010



Mississippi Personhood Amendment Officially on 2011 Ballot

Mississippi Secretary of State gives notice of sufficient certified voter signatures to be on 2011 Ballot

April 1, 2010



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Roman Catholicism is NOT Biblical Christianity



Five Reasons Why Roman Catholicism is not Biblical Christianity

tiara.asp?printerfriendly=true

Evangelism to Roman Catholics by a former Roman Catholic priest:

The website is the ministry outreach of former Catholic priest Richard Bennett.

From Tradition to Truth - A Priest's Story

Richard Peter Bennett

testimonies/Former_Priests/Richard_Bennett.pdf

Video - A Priest's Story on Location by Richard Bennett



Video (59:19)

Richard Bennett, former Roman Catholic priest, Jesuit-educated, Dominican trained.

Born-again Christian since 1985.

Berean Beacon's DVD - "A Priest's Story on Location." Photos from Richard Bennett's early life,

including a photo taken on the day of his ordination as a Roman Catholic priest. Included also are

1996 video shots taken in Dublin, Ireland at the Jesuit school that he attended, at the priory

where he was trained, and the church where he was ordained to the priesthood. These shots,

together with photos from Trinidad, WI, where he served as a priest, make this DVD a unique

insight into an account of his conversion as a Priest. Please make it known to others and kindly

link to it, if possible. Read also Richards book entitled, "Far from Rome, Near to God:

The Testimonies of Fifty Converted Catholic Priests."

Berean Beacon - - info@

Video - The Biblical Uncovering of the Pope and the Papacy

Sermon message by Jesuit-educated, former Roman Catholic priest, now born-again Christian, Richard Bennett

"... the papacy is the antichrist ..."

watch?v=al-Npc-wKBc&eurl

Video (56:56)

15,438 views



Pope Benedict XVI: True or False Shepherd?

sermoninfo.asp?SID=42608108410

4/20/2008 (SUN) | John 10 (57:04)

Sermon by Mr. John Wagner, pastor

Covenant Free Presbyterian Church, Lexington, South Carolina

New (Ecumenical) Evangelicals and the Papal Fable

"New Evangelicals and the Papal Fable"

"... everything I have said is easily documented. ("If the Pope Wins America, What Will America Be?")

Of course, it goes without saying, everything mentioned pales in comparison to the blasphemy and idolatry

of Roman Catholic dogma and ritual. In short, Rome hates and is determined to crush everything

which is truly biblical, evangelical, Protestant, and American. Those who hide this truth, even yoking

with Romanists under the "Christian banner," are no friends of Christ, no friends to the lost Roman

Catholic people, and certainly no friends of America. The same could also be said of those Christians,

especially pastors and ministry leaders, who may not be ecumenical but also have no zeal to reprove

popish abominations and apparently have no love for the souls of Roman Catholic people."

Mr. Ralph Ovadal, pastor,

Pilgrims Covenant Church, Monroe, Wisconsin

July 8, 2009

2009-07-09-New-Ecumenical-Evangelicals-and-Papal-Fable.doc

The Pope Kissing The Koran

(Karol Wojtyla - "Pope John Paul II")

popekiss.html

Here is a photo of the Pope at the end of an audience with Patriarch Raphael I of Iraq where "the Pope bowed to the

Muslim holy [sic] book the Qu'ran presented to him by the delegation and kissed it as a sign of respect".

"The Two Babylons - Romanism and Its Origins," by Alexander Hislop (1916):

catalog/books/0185.asp

"Where did the practices and beliefs of Roman Catholicism come from? In this scholarly classic, first published over ninety years ago, Alexander Hislop reveals that many Roman Catholic teachings did not originate with Christ or the Bible, but were adopted from ancient pagan Babylonian religion, and given Christian names."

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2 Chronicles 7:14 - God's remedy for America to be healed is for we who are

CHRISTIANS to REPENT !

"If My people [Christians], which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray,

and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [sins of commission and omission]; then

will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation]."

2 Chronicles 7:14

"America Repent" (music video)

Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet

watch?v=hLlOdkO9jak

Video (4:34) Views: 458

watch?v=pvu6hHLSpzk

Video (4:32) Views: 4,267

"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

"Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD;..."

Psalm 33:12, KJB

Christ is Ruler of the Nations !

Psalm 2; Psalm 24:1; Psalm 47:7,8; Psalm 50:12; 1 Timothy 6:15, KJB

"For the kingdom is the LORD's: and he is the governor among the nations."

Psalm 22:28, KJB

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

Yeshua Messiah (Jesus Christ)

Hallelu-Yah !

Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary

dir., Columbia Christians for Life

PO Box 50358

Columbia, SC 29250

(803) 794-6273







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