PERSONHOOD IN NORTH DAKOTA

http://www.personhoodusa.com, http://www.personhoodnorthdakota.com, http://www.policynd.org ^ | 2-17-2009 | PERSONHOOD USA

[MountainFlower]

Subject: North Dakota Passes Personhood Bill!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
North Dakota Personhood Bill Passes, First In US History.

Bismark, ND. Signaling the growing momentum of the personhood movement, North Dakota Lawmakers approved HB1572 with a vote of 51-41.

Rep. Dan Ruby introduced the "Personhood" bill, which affirms the rights of pre-born humans and states: "For purposes of interpretation of the constitution and laws of North Dakota, it is the intent of the legislative assembly that an individual, a person, when the context indicates that a reference to an individual is intended, or a human being includes any organism with the genome of homo sapiens."

Thousands of calls to legislators were made by pro-life Grassroots volunteers which helped with this victory. Only one Representative voiced opposition to the bill during the debate of the bill, while overwhelming public support was seen.

"Personhood USA applauds the leadership and support that the North Dakota Policy Council and the North Dakota Life League have shown to make this victory happen," stated Keith Mason of Personhood USA. He continued, "We thank Rep. Dan Ruby for his courage and for being actively pro-life. This great family man is an example to us all."

"North Dakotans have gotten used to cold temperatures like -44 degrees, but they haven't gotten used to child-killing. We applaud and support their efforts to protect every baby by love and by law," commented Cal Zastrow, who, along with his family, worked on the North Dakota bill on the grassroots level.

The next step for Bill 1576 is to be voted on by the State Senate which could happen in the next two weeks.

"HB 1576 brings us one step closer to applying the same laws that apply to you and me, to all humans," said Daniel Woodard, Lobbyist with North Dakota Life League.

Personhood USA is a grassroots Christian organization founded to establish personhood efforts across America to create protection for every child by love and by law. Personhood USA is committed to assisting and supporting Personhood Legislation and Constitutional Amendments and building local pro-life organizations through raising awareness of the personhood of the pre-born.

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Personhood USA
www.personhoodusa.com

Personhood North Dakota
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North Dakota Policy Council
www.policynd.org

[MountainFlower]

Thanks a bunch!!

[mvpel]

(And it d*mned well better be in that case, since the ND measure defines the embryo in an ectopic pregnancy, who has no chance of survival and will kill his or her mother to be entitled to human rights.)

So it becomes a justifiable homicide by law, rather than a medical procedure, not much different legally than an intended victim shooting a violent attacker.

This legislation also brings up an interesting issue with respect to the Thirteenth Amendment:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Does the unborn child effectively enslave his or her mother, or impose involuntary servitude upon her, if she is not permitted to withdraw her consent to act as a human life-support machine? Pro-life advocates should put some thought into this issue, since it seems a likely avenue of reasoning for abortion advocates.

[Philo-Junius]

That’s a silly argument; parents are always bound by law to support their children. Withdrawing support in a manner which results in the death of the child is negligent homicide.

[The_Reader_David]

Yes, that is the point (though removing the embryo in an ectopic pregnancy is both a medical procedure and justifiable homicide).

The “Abortion is murder” cry is a nice sound-bite, and while morally far more atuned with natural and divine law than anything the pro-aborts ever utter, is still morally shallow: abortion is homicide; willful homicide is murder; homicide to save another life is generally not murder, but classed as one or another type of justifiable homicide.

[Philo-Junius]

Furthermore, tubalectomies and other procedures which result in the death of the fetus in the case of ectopic pregnancies are merely the current inability to transplant the placenta from one point to another. We can easily imagine surgical technique advancing to the point where killing the fetus is not necessary in such unfortunate cases.

Present poverty of practical means is not a valid point in an argument over principle.

[mvpel]

The “Abortion is murder” cry is a nice sound-bite, and while morally far more atuned with natural and divine law than anything the pro-aborts ever utter, is still morally shallow: abortion is homicide; willful homicide is murder; homicide to save another life is generally not murder, but classed as one or another type of justifiable homicide.

This is why, as I understand it, at the time of Roe v. Wade there was not a single state anywhere in the US which prohibited abortions in the case of immediate threat to the life of the mother.