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July 31, 2022 – DAY 37 Since Overturn of Roe v Wade June 24, and South Carolina is STILL Killing Babies !

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July 31, 2022 – DAY 37 Since Overturn of Roe v Wade June 24, and South Carolina is STILL Killing Babies !
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South Carolina was NOT one of the 13 States with trigger laws already in place on June 24, 2022
( AR, ID, KY, LA, MO, MS, ND, OK, SD, TN, TX, UT, WY ).
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/us/state-abortion-trigger-laws-roe-v-wade-overturned/index.html

South Carolina was NOT one of the 9 States with pre-Roe “abortion” bans still in place on June 24, 2022
( AL, AR, AZ, MI, MS, OK, TX, WI, WV ).
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/us/state-abortion-trigger-laws-roe-v-wade-overturned/index.html

South Carolina was NOT one of the 3 States which passed recent “abortion” bans in spite of Roe
( AL (2019), AR (2021), OK (2022) )
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/new-law-bans-nearly-all-abortions-arkansas-n1260328

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 A PLEA IGNORED BY “REPUBLICAN” LEADERS:

To: SC Governor Henry McMaster (R)
SC Senate President Thomas Alexander (R-Oconee)
SC House Speaker G. Murrell Smith, Jr. (R-Sumter)
SC Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey (R-Edgefield)

‘A PLEA FOR JUSTICE:
JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED; ESTABLISH JUSTICE NOW !’
May 30, 2022 / Corrected/Revised June 7, 2022
http://christiansforpersonhood.com/index.php/2022/06/05/a-plea-for-justice-justice-delayed-is-justice-denied-establish-justice-now/

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South Carolina had 49+ years to get new** legislation banning “abortion” on the books; PERSONHOOD legislation was first filed 24+ years ago in 1998 and has been on file every year since, including now in 2022 [ H5401, S1335 ].

‘History of Personhood Legislation in South Carolina ( 1998 – 2021 )’
http://christiansforpersonhood.com/index.php/2021/11/10/history-of-personhood-legislation-in-south-carolina-1998-2021

** Prior to 1970, South Carolina had laws banning almost all “abortions”, and providing criminal penalties for the abortionist and for the woman soliciting an “abortion” [ SC Code of Laws, Title 16. Crimes and Offenses.***, Chapter 3, Offenses Against the Person.***, Sections 16-82, 16-83, 16-84, 16-85, 16-86 ]. For killing of “pre-quickening” babies (approx. 1st trimester), there were no exceptions to criminal punishment [ Section 16-83 ]. For killing of “post-quickening” babies (approx. 2nd and 3rd trimester), there was an exception*** for preserving the mother’s life or the life of the child [ Section 16-82 ]. Punishment of the woman for soliciting an
“abortion” [ Section 16-84 ] also had an exception*** for preserving the mother’s life or the life of the child.

*** NOTE: This is the same portion of the current SC Code of Laws which would be amended upon passage into law of H5401 or S1335, The Personhood Act of South Carolina, i.e., Title 16. Crimes and Offenses., Chapter 3, Offenses Against the Person., by adding Section 16-3-100 [ for H5401; different Section numbering for S1335 ] under Article 1, Homicide. There is no need to create whole new laws against murder to end/abolish child-murder by “abortion” in South Carolina. Section 16-3-10 already defines “Murder” as the killing of any person with malice aforethought, either express or implied. [ Emphasis added ] All that is necessary is to define “Person” in Article 1. Homicide, Chapter 3., Title 16., of the SC Code of Laws, to include all natural persons, i.e., all human beings, beginning at fertilization, with no exceptions.
( Black’s Law Dictionary (2009): Person = “A Human Being – Also Termed Natural Person. )
( SECTION 16-3-50. Manslaughter.; SECTION 16-3-60. Involuntary manslaughter; “criminal negligence” defined. )
 
*** It should be noted however, that it is not medically necessary to intentionally kill the unborn child to save the life of the mother [ See DublinDeclaration.com, with over 1,000 medical field signatories; and as posted here. See also quotes from Dr. C. Everett Koop, pediatric surgeon, former United States Surgeon General (1982-1989) as posted here. ].
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In 2021, the SC Legislature took just 37 days to pass the incremental, “abortion” regulation Heartbeat Bill S1, from introduction in the Senate on 1/12/21 to when Bill S1 was passed by the SC House on 2/18/21, and signed into law by SC Governor McMaster on the same day. It had been reported out of Senate Committee in just 13 days, on 1/25/21, and then passed by the full Senate on 1/28/21, albeit with exceptions for rape, incest, false so-called life/serious health of mother, and for killing handicapped babies; overall a despicable, unethical, unjust, unbiblical Bill.

‘SC Fetal Heartbeat Protection From Abortion [ sic ] Act’, Bill S1
www.scstatehouse.gov/sess124_2021-2022/bills/1.htm

The “Republican” [ sic ] Leadership chose to pass the Heartbeat Bill, and failed to even give the House or Senate Personhood Bills a public hearing in 2021, or so far in 2022.

After passing the SC Senate on 1/28/21, the Heartbeat Bill S1, with all its exceptions [ Note: The entire Heartbeat Bill itself is one Big Exception ! ], went to the SC House. The Bill S1 was reported out of the House Judiciary Committee on 2/10/21. On February 12, 2021, a Letter (below) from SC Citizens for “Life” [sic], addressed to the now former House Speaker, former Representative Jay Lucas, and apparently distributed to House Members, basically threatened SC Representatives with being scored as not voting “pro-life” if they tried to amend the Senate-passed bill with all its additional exceptions. This meant if any Representative dared to vote to remove any of the exceptions from S1, then incrementalists SCCL would not score that as a “pro-life” vote.

SCCL along with other promoters of incremental legislation to regulate child-murder by “abortion” have PERPETUATED “abortion” in SC, as the fact should now be clearly seen, in that now 37 Days AFTER the June 24 Dobbs ruling/Opinion overturning Roe, South Carolina is STILL killing babies, instead of having passed PERSONHOOD over the last 24+ years to END/ABOLISH “abortion” in South Carolina.

 

God said to Moses:

“So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood it defileth the land; and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein,
but by the blood of him that shed it.”

Numbers 35:33, KJV

 

ESTABLISH JUSTICE !

PASS PERSONHOOD NOW !

H5401, S1335
(scstatehouse.gov)

 

God says,

“Thou shalt not kill (murder).”


Exodus 20:13,
KJV

This battle in the United States of America for the Sanctity of the Creator God-given, inherent, unalienable, right to life of ALL human beings as natural persons, beginning at fertilization, was not over on June 24, 2022 when the US Supreme Court issued the Dobbs ruling and Opinion; and it will not be over until Creator God-given, inherent, unalienable, natural PERSONHOOD, at fertilization, with no exceptions, is recognized and established in the State Constitutions of all 50 States, and in the Constitution of the United States, SO HELP US GOD; because God says, “Thou Shalt Not Kill (Murder).” Exodus 20:13, KJV.

Christians for Personhood
Columbia, South Carolina

ChristiansforPersonhood.com

Re: ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES – Unethical versus Ethical Methods of Treatment

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Revised July 31, 2022

Re: ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES
– Unethical versus Ethical Methods of Treatment
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UNETHICAL:

Use of Abortifacient Drug Methotrexate Kills Ectopic Babies, Causes Ectopic Pregnancy “Abortions”;

Or May Result in Severely Deformed Baby if Misdiagnosis Fails to Detect Embryo Implanted in Uterus

ETHICAL:

“Watchful Waiting/Expectant Management” and If Needed, Ethically Performed Surgery **
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** Salpingectomy not salpingostomy ( whether by laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery or by laparotomy )
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ABC News
‘Baby Born Deformed After Misdiagnosed Ectopic Pregnancy’
Jan 23, 2012
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/w_ParentingResource/baby-born-deformeind-misdiagnosed-ectopic-pregnancy/story?id=15421441

                                       

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‘Presumed diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy’
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Sep 2002
 PubMed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12220770/

“Conclusion: In an effort to save time, avoid dilation and curettage (D&C), and
treat with methotrexate, the presence of an ectopic pregnancy is often presumed.
The presumed diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy is inaccurate in almost 40% of cases. …”
[ Emphasis added ]
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‘Outcome following high-dose methotrexate in pregnancies misdiagnosed as ectopic’
American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dec 2011
PubMed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21907957/

“Results: … All pregnancies resulted in catastrophic outcomes.”  [ Emphasis added ]

 

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Supposedly “pro-life” bills/laws which permit use of the abortifacient drug methotrexate
to “treat” ectopic pregnancies are pieces of legislation with a serious, unacceptable flaw.

Intentional killing of a pre-birth human being, wherever that human being is located, whether in the uterus, a fallopian tube, or elsewhere (not all ectopic pregnancies are located in the fallopian tube) is unethical, unjust, and unbiblical.

So then use of the abortifacient drug methotrexate to kill the tubal ectopic zygote/embryo is a methotrexate “abortion”, and is therefore unethical, unjust, and unbiblical.
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‘Expectant management of ectopic pregnancy’
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Sep 1992
PubMed
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1386659/

 

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God says,
“Thou shalt not kill (murder).”
 Exodus 20:13, KJV

Establish Justice.

Are Unborn Human Beings People ? Are the Unborn Persons ? ALL of them ?

If the Unborn are not Persons, then they have neither Constitutional Rights of Due Process nor of Equal Protection for their Right to Life, as do other People.

Pass Personhood Now, with No Exceptions.
There are No Exceptions to Creator God-given, inherent, unalienable, natural
Personhood
.

H5401, S1335
(scstatehouse.gov)

Christians for Personhood
Columbia, SC

ChristiansforPersonhood.com

Video Archive: SC House Ad Hoc Committee (“Abortion” Ban Legislation) – July 19, 2022

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SC House Ad Hoc Committee
(“Abortion” Ban Legislation)

Committee Meeting and Vote
( 9 to 3 to Adopt Recommended Language for H5399 )
July 19, 2022

Blatt House Office Building
Room 110

State House Grounds
Columbia, South Carolina

https://www.scstatehouse.gov/video/archives.php?key=12458&part=1
Video – 2:25:21 ( Begin 2:22:40 for Vote on Adoption of Recommended Language )

SC House Ad Hoc Committee Fails to Establish Justice in Recommended Language for “Abortion” Legislation; Adopted July 19, 2022

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Revised July 24, 2022; Revised July 25, 2022; Corrected and Revised July 26, 2022; Corrected and Revised August 14, 2022

SC House Blatt Office Building
State House Grounds
Columbia, South Carolina

SC House Ad Hoc Committee Fails to Establish Justice in Recommended Language for “Abortion” Legislation; Adopted July 19, 2022

SC House Ad Hoc Committee Amendment to H5399
Adopted July 19, 2022
Recommended Language for “Abortion” Legislation to SC House Judiciary Committee
http://christianlifeandliberty.net/2022-07-19-SC-House-Ad-Hoc-Committee-Adopted-Recommendation.pdf
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On July 19, 2022, by vote of 9 [ 8R, 1D ] to 3 [ 3D ], the Ad Hoc Committee on “abortion” legislation proposed language for H5399 which, the unenforceable words of the Legislative “Findings” notwithstanding, does not statutorily recognize the Unborn as Persons, and therefore, in actuality, denies Equal Protection for ALL Unborn Children.

The Ad Hoc Committee has essentially served as a drafting committee to propose language for H5399. Their recommendation adopted July 19 now goes to the SC House Judiciary Committee for the bill process to continue.

The proposed language for H5399 adopted July 19 by the Ad Hoc Committee:

– Bans nearly all “abortions” committed by surgical and RU486 means, including for children conceived in cases of rape and incest, and those who are handicapped ( so-called “fetal anomalies” [sic] ).

– Does not entirely ban intentionally killing the baby for the morally and ethically unacceptable, as well as false, medically unnecessary excuses of saving the life, or preventing “substantial and irreversible physical impairment” of the mother. This is similar to the unbiblical, unjust position of National Right to Life and their SC Chapter, SC Citizens for Life. In this context of the life/serious health of the mother, the proposed language for H5399 does state, “… when an unborn child is alive in utero, the physician must make all reasonable efforts to deliver and save the life of an unborn child during the process of separating the unborn child from the pregnant woman”; however it continues, “to the extent it does not adversely affect the life or health of the pregnant woman, and in a manner consistent with reasonable medical practice” [Section 44-41-830(C)]. This latter wording leaves open the possibility and availability of  intentionally killing the baby by “abortion”, and in fact the proposed language for H5399 actually uses the term permitted abortionin Section 44-41-830(B). However, it is not medically necessary to intentionally kill the unborn child to save the life of the mother [See DublinDeclaration.com, with over 1,000 medical field signatories; and as posted here. See also quotes from Dr. C. Everett Koop, pediatric surgeon, former United States Surgeon General (1982-1989) as posted here.].

– Criminalizes the abortionist; and, after due process, also provides for revocation of the abortionist’s physician’s license by the State Board of Medical Examiners for South Carolina.

– Does not criminalize the mother soliciting the “abortion”. This is consistent with the unbiblical, unjust position of National Right to Life and their SC Chapter, SC Citizens for Life.

This is contrary to the pre-1970 “abortion” law in South Carolina (Section 16-84), which provided up to two years in jail or a $1,000 fine to the woman soliciting an “abortion”.

– Does not ban chemical “abortions” by abortifacient birth control.

– Does not ban in vitro fertilization (IVF). Does partially** ban the wicked IVF practice of “selective reduction”, that is, of stopping [ “aborting” ] “the development of one or more [ implanted ] fetuses in utero“.

** Allows for potentially significant exceptions:
“Notwithstanding the above, the practice of 
“selective reduction,” (defined as a procedure to stop the development of one or more fetuses in utero) shall constitute an abortion in violation of Section 4, above, except, when necessary, in reasonable medical judgment, to prevent a substantial risk of death for another fetus, or the substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of another fetus.”  [ highlighting emphasis added ]

– Uses the Creator-and-Creation-denying Darwinian Evolution compatible term “species homo sapiens” to describe ‘unborn human beings’, et al.

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[ Video ]
Voting by 12-Member SC House Ad Hoc Committee to Adopt Recommended Language for H5399

Adopted July 19, 2022 by Roll Call Vote of 9 [ 8R, 1D ] to 3 [ 3D ]

Video (1:19)
http://christianlifeandliberty.net/20220719_143400.mp4

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Voting “Aye” in support of the Recommended Language for “Abortion” Legislation were these SC House members:

Representative John McCravy (R-Greenwood) – Chairman, Ad Hoc Committee
Representative Micah Caskey (R-Lexington)
Representative Heather Crawford (R-Horry)
Representative Jackie Hayes (D-Dillon)
Representative David Hiott (R-Pickens)
Representative Jeff Johnson (R-Horry)
Representative Josiah Magnuson (R-Spartanburg)
Representative Travis Moore (R-Spartanburg)
Representative Melissa Oremus (R-Aiken)

Voting “No/Nay” against the Recommended Language for “Abortion” Legislation were these SC House members:

Representative Chandra Dillard (D-Greenville)
Representative Rosalyn Henderson-Myers (D-Spartanburg)
Representative David Weeks (D-Sumter)

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ChristiansforPersonhood.com

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WLTX
‘SC House Committee recommends [ near total surgical/RU486 ] abortion ban, no exceptions for rape or incest’
The proposal includes protections [sic] for the life and health of the mother as well as contraception and in-vitro fertilization.
July 19, 2022
https://www.wltx.com/article/news/politics/no-exceptions-for-rape-or-incest-in-near-total-sc-abortion-ban/101-f81af3e0-b4f1-4220-96f9-95d8b8175bd3

The State
‘Rape, incest exceptions should not be included in abortion bill, SC House panel suggests’
Updated July 21, 2022
https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article263575318.html

Greenville News
‘Proposed SC [ near total surgical/RU486 ] abortion ban does not include exceptions for survivors of sexual assault’
July 19, 2022
https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/south-carolina/2022/07/19/sc-abortion-ban-under-consideration-house-representatives-committee-meets-again/10067517002/

WISTV
‘SC House Ad Hoc Committee on Abortion meets, teases draft of legislation’
July 19, 2022
https://www.wistv.com/2022/07/19/watch-live-second-meeting-sc-house-ad-hoc-committee-abortion/

Dublin Declaration on Maternal Healthcare (September 2012)

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Edited July 18, 2022 / Revised August 21, 2022

Continued…  Over 1,012 Signers:

Obstetricians / Gynaecologists; Medical Professionals; Midwives & Nurses; Neonatologists & Pediatricians; and Medical Students

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[ Flyer ]
Dublin Declaration
Ireland, September 2012
Dublin Declaration on Maternal Healthcare

“As experienced practitioners and researchers in
obstetrics and gynaecology, we affirm that
direct abortion – the purposeful destruction of
the unborn child – is not medically necessary to
save the life of the woman.”

Continued… DublinDeclaration.com