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Unjust Heartbeat Law (S474) Oral Arguments in SC Supreme Court Tuesday, June 27, 2023

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SC Supreme Court
Columbia, SC

Unjust Heartbeat Law (S474)
Oral Arguments
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
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“This [SC State Supreme] Court will review a circuit court order granting an injunction against enforcement of the 2023 Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act.”
https://www.sccourts.org/supremeRosters/dspSupRosterMenu.cfm

Video
When SC Supreme Court in Session
https://www.sccourts.org/scvideo/
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‘Re: Orwellian, Unjust, Pro-“Abortion”, Pro-Fornication, Pro-“Abortion”-Funding S474 Heartbeat Bill’
Christians for Personhood
http://christiansforpersonhood.com/index.php/2023/06/05/re-orwellian-unjust-pro-abortion-pro-fornication-pro-abortion-funding-s474-heartbeat-bill/

2023-2024 Bill S474:
“Abortion – Fetal Heartbeat”
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/bills/474.htm

The Heartbeat Law (S474) is NOT a “pro-life” bill. Aside from the obvious huge “exception” of allowing ALL children in the womb to continue to be exterminated prior to about six weeks gestation, there are also multiple “exceptions” to a ban after six weeks.

Human Life begins at conception/fertilization, NOT at heartbeat, NOT at implantation.

Furthermore, this bill:

1) In Orwellian fashion, S474 falsely re-defines the term “Contraceptive” to include a drug or device that prevents implantation of the human embryo in the uterus, which occurs 6 to 12 days after conception/fertilization. This is FALSE. Prevention of implantation is not the work of contraception, but is actually an early “abortion” at about one week gestation.
[ Section 44-41-610.(4) “Contraceptive” ]

2) S474 CODIFIES the FUNDING of “abortion” in the State “Health” Insurance Plan in the cases of the “exceptions”. S474 is an “ABORTION” FUNDING bill.

3) S474 requires the State “Health” Insurance Plan to cover “contraceptives” [ which includes abortifacients according to the Orwellian re-definition of the term ] for the DEPENDENTS [ e.g., young adults ] of employees. S474 is a PRO-FORNICATION bill.

4) S474 requires all private, group, and HMO health insurance policies in the State of SC to cover “contraceptives” [ which by the Orwellian re-definition includes abortifacients ]. (There is a religious exemption.) So while S474 will likely DECREASE the number of surgical/RU486 “abortions”, S474 will also likely INCREASE the number of early abortifacient “birth control” [ Margaret Sanger’s term ] “abortions.”
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So, all in the name of “saving babies”, the incremental “abortion” regulation Heartbeat Law (S474) is also:

1) Orwellian;

2) Unjust;

3) Pro-“Abortion”;

4) Pro-Fornication; and

5)  Pro-“Abortion”-Funding

 

“Abortion” Photos
https://abortionno.org/abortion-photos/

 

Christian, do the “ends” justify the “means” ? No, that is jesuitical, not Biblical thinking.

 

Paul the apostle warned those who would do evil that “good” may come, writing in Scripture their “damnation is just”.
(See Romans 3:8, KJV)

 

The incremental “regulation” of “abortion” is by definition the PERPETUATION of “abortion”. And following the false leadership of those who advocate incrementalism instead of ABOLITION is leading us to destruction.
(See Isaiah 3:12; Isaiah 9:16, KJV)

 

William Lloyd Garrison
19th Century American Slavery Abolitionist

“… Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice ?”

http://christianlifeandliberty.net/William-Lloyd-Garrison-For-Immediate-Abolition-The-Annals-Of-America-Volume-5-1821-1832.pdf

 

Likewise, …

Has not the experience of over 50 years shown that incrementalism in theory is the PERPETUATION of child-murder by “abortion” in practice ?

 

BEING “PRO-LIFE” MEANS AGREEING WITH GOD REGARDING THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE WHICH HE HAS CREATED.

 

God says,

“Thou shalt not kill (murder).”


Exodus 20:13, KJV

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American constitutional liberty and freedom will not survive unless Americans become a more virtuous people, NOT a less virtuous people.

 

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

John Adams


First Vice President of the U.S.

Second President of the U.S.

 

Those who advocate and insist on the “legalization” [sic] of child-murder in the womb in any measure, undermine the morals and virtue, and ultimately therefore the liberty of our State and Nation.

 

“Without Virtue There Can Be No Liberty”
– Founder* Benjamin Rush:
Christians for Personhood
http://christiansforpersonhood.com/index.php/2022/10/24/without-virtue-there-can-be-no-liberty-founder-benjamin-rush/
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“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
Isaiah 5:20, KJV

Establish Justice Now !

Pass Personhood
Now !

Steve Lefemine
ChristiansforPersonhood.com
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Notes:

June 24, 2023 is the one year anniversary of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v Wade.

However South Carolina is still killing massive numbers of babies by surgical/RU486 “abortion”, still committing mass-genocide (an estimated 8,000+ children slaughtered inside their mothers’ wombs in SC since Dobbs), primarily at SC’s three child-extermination centers in Greenville, Columbia, and Charleston.

A smaller number of children are also killed at some of SC’s “hospitals”, including the “abortion” facility (facilities?) at SC State Government’s taxpayer-subsidized (over $100 Million State taxpayer dollars budgeted for FY 2023-2024) “Medical” University of SC (MUSC), which kills more children in the womb than any other “hospital” in the State ( 51 children in the womb reported killed at MUSC in 2021 –http://christianlifeandliberty.net/2022-07-24-SC-DHEC-Abortions-by-Occurrence-in-SC-2021.pdf ).

MUSC also trains OB/GYN residents how to kill babies by “abortion”. In other words, MUSC trains abortionists. This sin and crime against humanity is perpetrated through the:

Ryan Residency Training Program

College of Medicine
MUSC
https://medicine.musc.edu/departments/obgyn/education/residency/ryan-training

 

The MUSC Board of Trustees has 14 seats elected by the “Republican”-majority SC Legislature, as well as one seat appointed by the “Republican” SC Governor, who also has one ex officio seat.

SC Code of Laws
Title 59 – Chapter 123
The Medical University Of South Carolina
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t59c123.php
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“REPUBLICAN” SUPER-MAJORITY SC HOUSE PASSES FALSELY-NAMED “HUMAN LIFE PROTECTION ACT” H3774 ON 2ND READING 83Y – 31N FEB 15; 3RD READING 77Y – 31N FEB 16

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Columbia, SC

“REPUBLICAN” SUPER-MAJORITY SC HOUSE PASSES FALSELY-NAMED “HUMAN LIFE PROTECTION ACT” H3774 ON 2ND READING 83Y – 31N FEB 15; 3RD READING 77Y – 31N FEB 16

H3774 FAKE “HLPA” [SIC] WOULD BAN APPROX. 97%* OF SURGICAL AND RU486 “ABORTIONS”; WHILE INCREASING “ABORTIONS” BY ABORTIFACIENT BIRTH CONTROL DRUGS AND DEVICES

* Using State of Florida 2020 statistics

SURGICAL AND RU486 “ABORTIONS” COMPRISE ONLY AN ESTIMATED 10-20% OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PRENATAL HUMAN BEINGS EXTERMINATED BY “ABORTION”; THE OTHER ESTIMATED 80-90% ARE KILLED BY ABORTIFACIENT BIRTH CONTROL

SO THE H3774 FAKE “HLPA” [SIC] WOULD ACTUALLY BAN APPROX. 10-19% OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF “ABORTIONS”, BECAUSE IT DOES NOT ESTABLISH LEGAL PERSONHOOD AT FERTILIZATION FOR ALL PRENATAL HUMAN BEINGS, AND THEREFORE DOES NOT PROVIDE EQUAL PROTECTION, AND THEREFORE DOES NOT ESTABLISH JUSTICE
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ERRONEOUS REPORTING BY POST AND COURIER REPORTER:
H3774 ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT PROTECT HUMAN LIFE FROM CONCEPTION:

‘SC House OKs bill that bans abortion at conception [sic], setting up possible GOP impasse’
Post and Courier
Feb 15, 2023
https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/sc-house-oks-bill-that-bans-abortion-at-conception-setting-up-possible-gop-impasse/article_64c1eb76-ad5d-11ed-af95-db308a3a996d.html

“The bill adopted 83-31 on Feb. 15 along party lines would ban abortions at conception [ sic – FALSE – from the point of “clinically diagnosable pregnancy”, i.e., a positive pregnancy test, AFTER IMPLANTATION ], with limited exceptions.”
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2023-2024 Bill H3774:
“HUMAN LIFE PROTECTION ACT” [SIC]
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/bills/3774.htm
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1) H3774 would ban approximately 97%* of surgical and RU486 “abortions” (H3774 [Section 44-41-830.] has multiple exceptions**); H3774 does not establish legal personhood***, and therefore does not provide full equal protection, and therefore does not establish justice.

* Using State of Florida 2020 statistics

** H3774 [Section 44-41-830.] has exceptions for so-called life/serious health of the mother [ despite the counter-indication of the www.DublinDeclaration.com ], rape/incest, and so-called fatal fetal “anomaly” [sic – euthanasia].

*** SC Supreme Court Opinion [ Filed January 5, 2023 ]
“Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. v. State of South Carolina, et al.”
Opinion No. 28127 / Pages 75, 76  ( Pages 1, 2, 5, 75 through 81, 90
)

History of Personhood Legislation in South Carolina (1998 – 2022)
http://christianlifeandliberty.net/2022-12-05-History-of-Personhood-Legislation-in-South-Carolina-1998-2022.pdf


2) H3774 [ SECTION 3., Section 44-41-810.] does NOT protect ANY human life from conception / fertilization. H3774 only protects from the point of “clinically diagnosable pregnancy” due to the detectable presence of hCG – which comes AFTER IMPLANTATION.

3) H3774 [ SECTION 3., Section 44-41-810.] uses the blasphemous term “species homo sapiens” compatible with the anti-Creator, anti-Creation Darwinian Evolutionary worldview to define an “Unborn child”. Human beings are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27, KJV), and are NOT part of the Animal Kingdom, nor of the Primate Order, as this wicked, unbiblical terminology inherently implies !!!

4) H3774 [SECTION 4.] undermines YEARS** of Annual SC State Budget battles, and actually CODIFIES funding of selected* surgical/RU486 “abortions” in the SC State Health Insurance Plan !!!

* H3774 provides for FUNDING of “abortions” through the SC State Health Insurance Plan in the cases of so-called life/serious health of the mother [ despite the counter-indication of the www.DublinDeclaration.com ], rape/incest, and so-called fatal fetal “anomaly” [sic – euthanasia].

** This after repeated Annual SC State Budget battles over many years in both the SC House and the SC Senate over the funding of State Health Insurance Plan “abortions”, going back well over a decade to at least 2010 in the SC House*** and SC Senate**** !!!  And more since then*****. [ Note: The so-called Hyde Amendment is NOT a Pro-Life Amendment – funding “abortion” in cases of so-called life of the mother, rape, and incest is NOT Pro-Life. ]

***
March 17-18, 2010 – Persevering Republican Majority SC House votes to REMOVE Abortion Funding for rape, incest, and unrestricted life of the mother cases in South Carolina State “Health” Insurance Plan
– Pro-Life, Anti-Abortion-Funding Amendment to SC State Budget championed by Rep. Rex Rice (R-Easley) PASSES !!!
– Commendable, late-night, sustained effort by Republican Majority SC House against persistent pro-abortion efforts

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Republican-Majority South Carolina Senate votes to continue
Abortion-Funding in State Health Insurance Plan by 24 – 17 vote
OVER 40% (12 out of 27) OF SC SENATE REPUBLICANS VOTED AGAINST
ANTI-ABORTION-FUNDING BUDGET AMENDMENT INTRODUCED BY
CHRISTIAN PRO-LIFE SENATOR DAVID THOMAS
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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(SC) Wed., April 17, 2019
Re: SC Senate votes against stopping State-funding of certain “abortions”
through SC State Health Insurance Plan (PEBA)

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5) H3774 [SECTION 6., Section 38-71-146.] MANDATES the expansion of the availability of birth control, including birth control which can cause chemical “abortions”, by REQUIRING “All individual and group health insurance and health maintenance organization policies in this State shall include coverage for” contraceptives/abortifacients. This is more Big Government socialism; not to mention, promotion by the South Carolina State Government of the shedding of innocent blood through birth control which is abortifacient.

6) H3774 [SECTION 6., Section 38-71-146.] FALSIFIES BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE, FALSELY CLAIMING: A contraceptive may prevent ovulation, fertilization, or implantation in the uterus.” However, implantation in the uterus occurs 6 to 10 days AFTER fertilization. So preventing implantation in the lining of the uterus of a living human being by a drug or device is NOT the work of birth control functioning as a contraceptive, but of birth control that is functioning as an abortifacient, i.e., to cause an early “abortion” at about one week of human life. This twisting, perversion, and falsification of the English language, of science, of biology, and of the truth, apparently embraced by the medical profession, is Orwellian, and has the effect of deceiving the public by calling abortifacient birth control drugs and devices by the FALSE label “contraceptive” instead of truthfully identifying their abortifacient characteristics.

THIS FURTHER EXPOSES THE FALSE CLAIM THAT H3774 PROTECTS HUMAN LIFE FROM CONCEPTION. IT ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT.

IMPLANTATION IN THE UTERUS OCCURS 6 TO 10 DAYS AFTER CONCEPTION / FERTILIZATION.

7) H3774 [SECTION 7.] promotes FORNICATION* among South Carolina youth by requiring the Public Employee Benefit Authority (PEBA) and the State Health Insurance Plan to cover contraceptives/abortifacients for dependents “under the same terms and conditions that the Plan provides contraceptive coverage for employees and spouses.” This is immoral and despicable. The Bible commands to “Flee fornication.” (1 Corinthians 6:18, KJV), and the Bible reveals “fornicators” shall not “inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9,10, KJV). For the South Carolina State Government to further promote fornication among the State’s youth by making birth control even more available and accessible to them as dependents, might not this for even more young people, hinder their inheriting the kingdom of God ?

* Note: In a recent calendar year (2017), 88% of the surgical/RU486 “abortions” in South Carolina were committed upon UNMARRIED females. (“Abortions” by Marital Status Occurring in SC in 2017 (SC DHEC) – Click Here). BIRTH CONTROL fuels FORNICATION, and FORNICATION fuels “ABORTION”.  (Have we forgotten the introduction of Margaret Sanger’s birth control pill in 1960 effectively launched the “Sexual Revolution” of the 1960’s, from which we are still suffering, and still experiencing today in 2023 !?)

8) H3774 [SECTION 4.] prohibits the use by Planned Parenthood of any state funds for “abortions” [ However, this also begs the question, does that mean Planned Parenthood can continue to receive state funds for purposes other than surgical/RU486 “abortions” ?].

9) H3774 [SECTION 10.] rightly FINALLY repeals Sec 44-41-20. “Legal Abortions.” in the SC Code which codifies the Roe v Wade framework. The Roe framework was placed in the SC Code by the SC Legislature in 1974, and has been preserved there by 25+ years of incremental “abortion” regulation legislation, including by the incremental “abortion” perpetuation Heartbeat Law [ SC Senate Bill S.1, See Section 44-41-710. ] which has been blocked by SC Supreme Court since its August 17, 2022 Order.

However, H3774 does NOT rightly repeal in its entirety, all of Chapter 41 – Abortions, Title 44 of the 1976 Code, as would have the Personhood Act of SC (2022 Session – H5401/S1335).

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So, in conclusion, H3774 would ban approximately 97% of surgical and RU486 “abortions” in SC, and thus would likely shut down such “abortions” at the Planned Parenthood murder mills in Columbia and Charleston, and would likely stop nearly all such “abortions” at the Greenville murder mill.

However, surgical and RU486 “abortions” only account for an estimated 10-20% of the total number of “abortions”. The other estimated 80-90% is from birth control which can function abortifaciently, TO WHICH THIS UNRIGHTEOUS BILL H3774 IN ITS PRESENT FORM AS FILED ON JANUARY 24, 2023, AND AS PASSED BY THE SC HOUSE JUDICIARY CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS SUBCOMMITTEE ON JANUARY 26, 2023 (SC Legislature Archived Video), AND AS PASSED BY THE FULL SC HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON FEBRUARY 15 (2ND READING) AND ON FEBRUARY 16 (3RD READING), WOULD EXPAND AVAILABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY, EVEN TO DEPENDENTS (YOUTH) THROUGH THE SC PEBA AND THROUGH THE STATE HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN !
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God says,

“… seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

Hosea 4:6c, KJV

 

ESTABLISH JUSTICE NOW !

PASS PERSONHOOD NOW !

 

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 the Creator God-given, inherent, unalienable, natural PERSONHOOD of ALL human beings, at fertilization, with no exceptions, is codified and established as legal PERSONHOOD 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.

Steve Lefemine
Christians for Personhood
Columbia, South Carolina

ChristiansforPersonhood.com

 

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‘The Protest of a Protestant Minister Against Birth Control’
Matt Trewhella, pastor
Mercy Seat Christian Church
Wisconsin
http://mercyseat.net/2011/03/15/protest-birth-control
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‘CHEMICAL ABORTION’ [ Brochure ]

Pastors For Life
Easley, South Carolina
1996
http://christianlifeandliberty.net/2021-12-17-CHEMICAL-ABORTION-Pastors-For-Life-Easley-SC-1996.pdf
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“The Pill” [ Brochure ]
by Joan Appleton, RN
May 1995
http://christianlifeandliberty.net/2021-04-09-The-Pill-brochure-Joan-Appleton-RN.pdf
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“THE PILL” [ Flyer ]
Updated February 2003
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Public Health and Science
Office of Population Affairs
http://christianlifeandliberty.net/2021-04-09-THE-PILL-US-Dept-of-Health-and-Human-Services-Updated-Feb-2003.pdf
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‘Abortifacient Brief:
The Intrauterine Device’
Human Life International
January 5, 2022
https://www.hli.org/resources/abortifacient-brief-intrauterine-device/
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‘Yes, Some Contraceptives Are Abortifacients’
National Review
November 4, 2016
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/11/contraception-birth-control-abortion-abortifacients-ella-plan-b-iud-embryo-life/
Excerpts:

“Pro-abortion-rights activists employ a neat semantic trick to evade and ignore the scientific details of abortifacient drugs: redefining “pregnancy” to mean “the implantation of an embryo in the uterine lining.” Thus any drug that prevents implantation of an existing embryo prevents pregnancy rather than aborting an existing one. Semantics aside, the crucial, underlying question is whether these birth-control methods cause embryonic death.”

“As Donna Harrison has explained at NRO, an IUD’s manipulation of the hormone progesterone causes a woman’s body to reject any embryo that might be formed after ovulation, rather than wholly stopping ovulation from occurring. The copper material in some IUDs has been shown to be toxic to an embryo, leading to its death or, if it survives, abnormal development. Furthermore, an IUD’s manipulation of the uterine lining accounts for the fact that, among women who become pregnant while using an IUD, there is a high rate of ectopic pregnancy, in which the embryo implants somewhere outside the uterus.”
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FALSELY-NAMED “HUMAN LIFE PROTECTION ACT” H3774 PASSES SC HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE – JAN 26, 2023

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Edited/Revised February 2, 2023

Columbia, SC

FALSELY-NAMED “HUMAN LIFE PROTECTION ACT” H3774 PASSES SC HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE – JAN 26, 2023
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ERRONEOUS REPORTING BY WIS-TV NEWS REPORTER:
H3774 ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT PROTECT HUMAN LIFE FROM CONCEPTION:


‘Abortion ban again advancing at SC State House’
WIS TV
Jan 27, 2023
https://www.wistv.com/2023/01/27/abortion-ban-again-advancing-sc-state-house/

“The bill bans abortion from conception [ sic – FALSE – from the point of “clinically diagnosable pregnancy”, i.e., a positive pregnancy test, AFTER IMPLANTATION ], with exceptions for the life and health of the mother, fatal fetal anomalies, and victims of rape and incest, who would then be required to report the assault to law enforcement.”
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2023-2024 Bill H3774:
“HUMAN LIFE PROTECTION ACT” [SIC]
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/bills/3774.htm
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1) H3774 would ban approximately 97%* of surgical and RU486 “abortions” (H3774 [Section 44-41-830.] has multiple exceptions**); H3774 does not establish legal personhood***, and therefore does not provide full equal protection, and therefore does not establish justice.

* Using State of Florida 2020 statistics

** H3774 [Section 44-41-830.] has exceptions for so-called life/serious health of the mother [ despite the counter-indication of the www.DublinDeclaration.com ], rape/incest, and so-called fatal fetal “anomaly” [sic – euthanasia].

*** SC Supreme Court Opinion [ Filed January 5, 2023 ]
“Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. v. State of South Carolina, et al.”
Opinion No. 28127 / Pages 75, 76
https://www.sccourts.org/opinions/HTMLFiles/SC/28127.pdf


History of Personhood Legislation in South Carolina (1998 – 2022)
http://christianlifeandliberty.net/2022-12-05-History-of-Personhood-Legislation-in-South-Carolina-1998-2022.pdf


2) H3774 [ SECTION 3., Section 44-41-810.] does NOT protect ANY human life from conception / fertilization (H3774 only protects from the point of “clinically diagnosable pregnancy” due to the detectable presence of hCG – which comes AFTER IMPLANTATION).

3) H3774 [SECTION 4.] undermines YEARS** of Annual SC State Budget battles, and actually CODIFIES funding of selected* surgical/RU486 “abortions” in the SC State Health Insurance Plan !!!

* H3774 provides for FUNDING of “abortions” through the SC State Health Insurance Plan in the cases of so-called life/serious health of the mother [ despite the counter-indication of the www.DublinDeclaration.com ], rape/incest, and so-called fatal fetal “anomaly” [sic – euthanasia].

** This after repeated Annual SC State Budget battles over many years in both the SC House and the SC Senate over the funding of State Health Insurance Plan “abortions”,
going back well over a decade to at least 2010 in the SC House*** and SC Senate**** !!!  And more since then*****. [ Note: The so-called Hyde Amendment is NOT a Pro-Life Amendment – funding “abortion” in cases of so-called life of the mother, rape, and incest. ]

***
March 17-18, 2010 – Persevering Republican Majority SC House votes to REMOVE Abortion Funding for rape, incest, and unrestricted life of the mother cases in South Carolina State “Health” Insurance Plan
– Pro-Life, Anti-Abortion-Funding Amendment to SC State Budget championed by Rep. Rex Rice (R-Easley) PASSES !!!
– Commendable, late-night, sustained effort by Republican Majority SC House against persistent pro-abortion efforts

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Republican-Majority South Carolina Senate votes to continue
Abortion-Funding in State Health Insurance Plan by 24 – 17 vote
OVER 40% (12 out of 27) OF SC SENATE REPUBLICANS VOTED AGAINST
ANTI-ABORTION-FUNDING BUDGET AMENDMENT INTRODUCED BY
CHRISTIAN PRO-LIFE SENATOR DAVID THOMAS
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

*****
(SC) Wed., April 17, 2019
Re: SC Senate votes against stopping State-funding of certain “abortions”
through SC State Health Insurance Plan (PEBA)

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4) H3774 [SECTION 6., Section 38-71-146.] MANDATES the expansion of the availability of birth control, including birth control which can cause chemical “abortions”, by REQUIRING “All individual and group health insurance and health maintenance organization policies in this State shall include coverage for” contraceptives/abortifacients. This is more Big Government socialism; not to mention, promotion by the State Government of the shedding of innocent blood through birth control which can cause chemical “abortions”.

5) H3774 [SECTION 6., Section 38-71-146.] FALSIFIES BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE, FALSELY CLAIMING: A contraceptive may prevent ovulation, fertilization, or implantation in the uterus.” However, implantation in the uterus occurs 6 to 10 days AFTER fertilization. So preventing implantation in the uterus is NOT the work of birth control functioning as  a contraceptive, but of birth control that is functioning as an abortifacient, i.e., to cause an early chemical “abortion” at about one week of human life.

THIS FURTHER EXPOSES THE FALSE CLAIM THAT H3774 PROTECTS HUMAN LIFE FROM CONCEPTION. IT ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT.

IMPLANTATION IN THE UTERUS OCCURS 6 TO 10 DAYS AFTER CONCEPTION / FERTILIZATION.

6) H3774 [SECTION 7.] promotes FORNICATION* among South Carolina youth by requiring the Public Employee Benefit Authority (PEBA) and the State Health Plan to cover contraceptives/abortifacients for dependents “under the same terms and conditions that the Plan provides contraceptive coverage for employees and spouses.” This is immoral and despicable. The Bible commands to “Flee fornication.” (1 Corinthians 6:18, KJV), and the Bible reveals “fornicators” shall not “inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9,10, KJV). For the South Carolina State Government to further promote fornication among the State’s youth by making birth control even more available and accessible to them as dependents, might not this for even more young people, hinder their inheriting the kingdom of God ?

* Note: In a recent calendar year (2017), 88% of the surgical/RU486 “abortions” in South Carolina were committed upon UNMARRIED females. (“Abortions” by Marital Status Occurring in SC in 2017 (SC DHEC) – Click Here). BIRTH CONTROL fuels FORNICATION, and FORNICATION fuels “ABORTION”.  (Have we forgotten the introduction of Margaret Sanger’s  birth control pill in 1960 effectively launched the “Sexual Revolution” of the 1960’s, from which we are still suffering, and still experiencing today in 2023 !?)

7) H3774 [SECTION 4.] prohibits the use by Planned Parenthood of any state funds for “abortions” [ However, this also begs the question, does that mean Planned Parenthood can continue to receive state funds for purposes other than surgical/RU486 “abortions” ?].

8) H3774 [SECTION 10.] rightly FINALLY repeals Sec 44-41-20. “Legal Abortions.” in the SC Code which codifies the Roe v Wade framework. The Roe framework was placed in the SC Code by the SC Legislature in 1974, and has been preserved there by 25+ years of incremental “abortion” regulation legislation, including by the incremental “abortion” perpetuation Heartbeat Law [ SC Senate Bill S.1, See Section 44-41-710. ] which has been blocked by SC Supreme Court since August 17, 2022.

However, H3774 does NOT rightly repeal in its entirety, all of Chapter 41 – Abortions, Title 44 of the 1976 Code, as would have the Personhood Act of SC (2022 Session – H5401/S1335).

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So, in conclusion, H3774 would ban approximately 97% of surgical and RU486 “abortions” in SC, and thus would likely shut down such “abortions” at the Planned Parenthood murder mills in Columbia and Charleston, and would likely stop nearly all such “abortions” at the Greenville murder mill.

However, surgical and RU486 “abortions” only account for an estimated 10-20% of the total number of “abortions”. The other estimated 80-90% is from birth control which can function abortifaciently, TO WHICH THIS UNRIGHTEOUS BILL H3774 IN ITS PRESENT FORM AS FILED ON JANUARY 24, 2023, AND AS PASSED BY THE SC HOUSE JUDICIARY CONSTITUTIONAL LAWS SUBCOMMITTEE ON JANUARY 26, 2023 (SC Legislature Archived Video), WOULD EXPAND AVAILABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY, EVEN TO DEPENDENTS (YOUTH) THROUGH SC PEBA AND THROUGH THE STATE HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN !
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God says,

“… seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

Hosea 4:6c, KJV

 

ESTABLISH JUSTICE NOW !

PASS PERSONHOOD NOW !

 

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 the Creator God-given, inherent, unalienable, natural PERSONHOOD of ALL human beings, at fertilization, with no exceptions, is codified and established as legal PERSONHOOD 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.

Steve Lefemine
Christians for Personhood
Columbia, South Carolina

ChristiansforPersonhood.com

 

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‘The Protest of a Protestant Minister Against Birth Control’

Matt Trewhella, pastor
Mercy Seat Christian Church
Wisconsin
http://mercyseat.net/2011/03/15/protest-birth-control
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‘CHEMICAL ABORTION’ [ Brochure ]

Pastors For Life
Easley, South Carolina
1996
http://christianlifeandliberty.net/2021-12-17-CHEMICAL-ABORTION-Pastors-For-Life-Easley-SC-1996.pdf
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“The Pill” [ Brochure ]
by Joan Appletyon, RN
May 1995
http://christianlifeandliberty.net/2021-04-09-The-Pill-brochure-Joan-Appleton-RN.pdf
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“THE PILL” [ Flyer ]
Updated February 2003
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Public Health and Science
Office of Population Affairs
http://christianlifeandliberty.net/2021-04-09-THE-PILL-US-Dept-of-Health-and-Human-Services-Updated-Feb-2003.pdf
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SOUTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE EXPLICITLY NAMES SEVERAL PERSONHOOD BILLS IN HIS HEARTBEAT LAW OPINION – JANUARY 5, 2023

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Columbia, SC

SOUTH CAROLINA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE EXPLICITLY NAMES SEVERAL PERSONHOOD BILLS IN HIS HEARTBEAT LAW OPINION – JANUARY 5, 2023

SC Supreme Court Justice John Few’s Opinion documents the repeated failure of the
SC General Assembly over the course of years to pass Personhood legislation;
plus the continued existence today of the Roe framework in the SC Code of Laws,
which was added to the SC Code by the SC Legislature in 1974
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Selected specific Personhood Bills named in Justice John Few’s Opinion:

S.129 (2015) [pp. 75, 76] “… would have added a new section to Title 1 of the Code – “Administration of the Government” – providing, “The right to life for each born and preborn human being vests at fertilization.” “

S.1335 (2022) [p. 76] “(proposed but not adopted legislation adding a new section to Title 16 – “Criminal Code” – providing, “The right to life for each born and preborn human being is inherent and unalienable beginning at fertilization”)…”

H.5401 (2022) [p. 76] “(proposed but not adopted legislation adding a new section to Title 16 – “Criminal Code” – providing, “The General Assembly finds that a human being is a person at fertilization”)…”

S.381 (2021) [p. 76]

H.3568 (2021) [p. 76]

H.3920 (2019) [p. 76]

S.217 (2017) [p. 76]

H.3530 (2017) [p. 76]
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“Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. v. State of South Carolina, et al.”
 Opinion No. 28127 / Pages 75, 76
https://www.sccourts.org/opinions/HTMLFiles/SC/28127.pdf


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Justice John Few (pp. 75, 76):

“For years, a minority of the General Assembly attempted to enact legislation banning abortion altogether. See, e.g., S.129, 121st Gen. Assemb., Reg. Sess. (S.C. 2015). Those “personhood bills” – based on what would have become a legislative finding that human life begins at conception [FN 53] – consistently failed to gain majority support. [FN 54]”  [emphasis added]

See also personhood/person references by Justice John Few on pp. 77, 80.

Justice John Few (p. 90):

“In 1974 – in response to Roe – the General Assembly enacted an expansive statutory right to abortion, making any abortion legal up to the end of the second trimester of pregnancy. Act No. 1215, 1974 S.C. Acts 2837, 2838-39. That statutory right to – or opportunity for – abortion is actually still the law. See § 44-41-20(a)-(b).”
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“Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. v. State of South Carolina, et al.”
 Opinion No. 28127 / Page 90
https://www.sccourts.org/opinions/HTMLFiles/SC/28127.pdf

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Christians for Personhood:

Chapter 41 “Abortions” of Title 44 of SC Code of Laws should be repealed; child-murder by “abortion” should be ENDED, not incrementally “regulated” !
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No Personhood Bill has ever been fully passed, in 24 straight years of these bills being filed in the SC Legislature, 1998 to 2022. The most progress achieved was passage of a Personhood bill by the full SC House in 2005, albeit with a fatal flaw rape exception
allowing use of an abortifacient drug [There are no exceptions to “personhood”, none. ]. In the SC Senate, Personhood legislation was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee in both 2016 and 2018, and in each year, placed on the Senate Calendar where the bills subsequently died.
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This is the 24 year history of principled Personhood legislation, never fully passed by the SC Legislature, which has led now to the ongoing post-Dobbs slaughter of an estimated 3,000 unborn children in SC in the 198 Days since Roe was overturned
(a/o 1/8/2023):

History of Personhood Legislation in South Carolina ( 1998 – 2022 )
http://christianlifeandliberty.net/2022-12-05-History-of-Personhood-Legislation-in-South-Carolina-1998-2022.pdf
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SC Supreme Court Opinion:

“Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, et al. v. State of South Carolina, et al.”


Heard (Argued) – Oct 19, 2022

Filed – January 5, 2023

SC Heartbeat Law ruled unconstitutional

Decision: 3 ( Kaye Hearn, Donald Beatty, John Few ) to 2 ( John Kittredge, George James, Jr. )

Opinion No. 28127

https://www.sccourts.org/opinions/HTMLFiles/SC/28127.pdf
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ESTABLISH JUSTICE NOW !

PASS PERSONHOOD NOW !

THE KEY TO ENDING CHILD-MURDER BY “ABORTION” IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND IN AMERICA IS TO CODIFY THE CREATOR GOD-GIVEN, INHERENT, UNALIENABLE, NATURAL PERSONHOOD OF ALL HUMAN BEINGS, AS LEGAL PERSONHOOD, IN LAW, AT FERTILIZATION, AND THAT WITHOUT EXCEPTION, BECAUSE …

GOD SAYS,

“THOU SHALT NOT KILL (MURDER).”


EXODUS 20:13, KJV

Steve Lefemine
Christians for Personhood

ChristiansforPersonhood.com
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The SC Republican Party Platform is a PERSONHOOD PLATFORM:

The South Carolina Republican Party Platform

https://sc.gop/assets/uploads/2022/09/SCGOP-Platform.pdf
Excerpt:

Article II – To Establish Justice

The Right to Life

“We believe the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection applies to unborn children.
Unborn children should be classified as legal persons not as legal property.”
[ Emphasis added ]
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Blacks Law Dictionary (2009): Person = A Human Being
person.
A human being. Also termed natural person.

The Personhood Act of SC (2022 Session – H5401/S1335) recognizes the Creator God-given,
inherent, unalienable right to life of every human being as a natural person, codified in SC law as a legal person, beginning at fertilization, with no exceptions, because God says, Thou shalt not kill (murder). Exodus 20:13, KJV.
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Seven Pro-“Abortion” “Republican” Senators Voted with 16 Democrats, 23 Y – 21 N to Table (Kill) Conference Committee H5399 Report Which Would Have Banned 98% of Surgical/RU486 “Abortions” in SC; These Seven Effectively Voted to Perpetuate Mass Genocide by “Abortion” at South Carolina’s Three Child-Murder Centers***

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SC Senate
Columbia, SC
November 9, 2022

Seven Pro-“Abortion” “Republican” Senators Voted with 16 Democrats,
23 Y – 21 N to Table (Kill) Conference Committee H5399 Report Which
Would Have Banned 98% of Surgical/RU486 “Abortions” in SC;
These Seven Effectively Voted to Perpetuate Mass Genocide by “Abortion”
at South Carolina’s Three Child-Murder Centers***
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Seven Pro-“Abortion” “Republican” South Carolina State Senators:

Tom Davis (BEAUFORT)

Penry Gustafson (KERSHAW)

Greg Hembree (HORRY)

Shane Massey (EDGEFIELD)

Sandy Senn (CHARLESTON)

Katrina Shealy (LEXINGTON)

Tom Young (AIKEN)

Notes:
1) Chip Campsen (R-CHARLESTON) was on Leave and so did not cast a vote.

2) Leave for Luke Rankin (R-HORRY) was granted about 2 1/2 hours after the beginning of the Senate Session; it is presently undetermined whether he was physically present or not for the 23 Y – 21 N vote to Table H5399.

3) If just one Senator of the 23 who voted Yes to Table (kill) the H5399 Conference Report had instead voted No, the vote would have been a 22 Y – 22 N tie, and the Tabling motion would have failed.
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SC Senate Journal
November 9, 2022
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess124_2021-2022/sj22/20221109.htm

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Video
H5399 Conference Committee Meeting
10 am, November 9, 2022
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/video/archives.php?key=12558&part=1
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Video
SC Senate Chamber
11am, November 9, 2022
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/video/archives.php?key=12557&part=1
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God says,
“Thou shalt not kill (murder).”
Exodus 20:13, KJV
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*** The JUST action (Micah 6:8, Amos 5:15, Proverbs 21:3, KJV) for the SC Legislature to take has not been to pass the unjust SC Senate version of H5399, which would ban approximately 52% of the surgical and RU486 child-murders by “abortion” in South Carolina; nor to pass the unjust SC House version of H5399, which would ban approximately 98% of the surgical and RU486 child-murders by “abortion” in South Carolina; but to pass Personhood Bills H5401 / S1335 to ESTABLISH JUSTICE and ultimately END AND ABOLISH ALL CHILD-MURDER BY “ABORTION” IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

Neither the SC House nor the SC Senate versions of H5399 establish legal recognition of Personhood for preborn children at fertilization, and therefore neither version provides for equal protection of the laws, and therefore neither version establishes Justice. The just course of action for the SC House and SC Senate to take has been to pass the Personhood Act of SC (H5401 / S1335), not H5399. With only now three plus days left in the 2022 SC Legislative Session (until November 13) as of today, November 10 [ 139 Days after the overturn of Roe v Wade on June 24, 2022 ], Free Conference powers would have to be granted to the Conference Committee by a super-majority of each chamber to authorize striking the current language and amending H5399 with the language of Personhood Bills H5401 / S1335. In lieu of further action upon H5399 by the Conference Committee, or by the SC Senate, H5399 is dead for the 2022 SC Legislative Session, with no further likely legislative action to ban child-murder/sacrifice by “abortion” in South Carolina until January 2023 at the earliest. 
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The SC GOP Platform is a PERSONHOOD Platform:

“The South Carolina Republican Party Platform”
https://sc.gop/assets/uploads/2021/12/SCGOP-Platform.pdf
Excerpt:

The Right to Life

“We believe the Fourteenth Amendment’s protection applies to unborn children.
Unborn children should be classified as legal persons not as legal property.”
[ Emphasis added ]
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The Personhood Act of SC H5401/S1335 recognizes the Creator God-given, inherent, unalienable right to life of every human being as a natural person beginning at fertilization, in SC law, with no exceptions, because God says, “Thou shalt not kill (murder).” Exodus 20:13, KJV.

Black’s Law Dictionary (2009): Person = “A Human Being”
person. A human being. – Also termed natural person.

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ESTABLISH JUSTICE NOW !

PASS PERSONHOOD

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

 

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