Posted on 09/09/2023 1:32:08 AM PDT by Morgana
Did you see what happened in South Carolina?
Pro-Life legislators REPEALED an existing law that made it a criminal act for a pregnant woman to deliberately kill her own preborn baby by abortion.š³
And this isnāt the first time. Other states have done this.
Before I get to the others, though, hereās what South Carolina did.
South Carolina had a statute (S.C. Code Ann. Ā§ 44-41-80) criminalizing self-managed abortions: S.C. Code Ann. Ā§ 44-41-80 criminalizing self-managed abortions was repealed.
But, the 2023 Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act (S.C. SB 474, Section 9), repealed that law, decriminalizing self-managed abortion in South Carolina.
Hereās how it happened.
A Democrat Senator offered the amendment to do this (Hutto, Amendment 10). With 30 Republican senators and only 13 Democrats, you would assume that anything decriminalizing abortion like this wouldnāt stand a chance of passing, right?
Wrong.
One Republican did try to kill the amendment, but only two voted with him. Every other Pro-Life legislator voted with the Democrats to repeal this law prohibiting self-managed abortions.
While I havenāt seen a single Pro-Life organization or media outlet point this out, pro-ABORTION advocates have certainly noticed and are celebrating.
Theyāre also making sure women know about it.[1] Twitter post from If/When/How Lawyering for Reproductive Justice
I know it sounds crazy!
Why would people who call themselves Pro-Life do something so damaging to the legal protection of preborn babies?
And if pro-life leaders and organizations around the country disagree with what theyāre doing, why arenāt more of them saying anything about it? Are any of them?
š£šInstead, Pro-Life headlines are shouting VICTORY in South Carolina. Yet the reality is that babies there are now even more vulnerable to the fastest growing method of abortion in post-Roe America than they were before the heartbeat law went into effect. Pro-Life sources call South Carolina law a victory.
In 2023, self-managed abortion is usually performed by women at home with abortion pills ordered online. This type of abortion is exploding in popularity since Roe was overturned. Women donāt need clinics to get abortions anymore. And with every passing month, the number of women requesting abortion pills online is going up.
In July 2023, one of the largest online pill providers reported that they had over 15,000 requests from inside the U.S. in a single month.[2] That is a dramatic increase from early post-Roe estimates of 6,500+ per month from that same provider.[3]
Self-managed abortion is not just the future of abortion, itās the current reality. So why are Pro-Life legislators repealing laws that prohibit it? This isnāt an isolated incident.
In Arizona in 2021, Pro-Life bill SB 1457 repealed Arizona statute Ā§ 13-3604. Once again, it was Pro-Life legislation that was lobbied for by Pro-Life organizations that decriminalized self-managed abortion for women in that state. Arizona statute prohibiting self-managed abortion was repealed. And it keeps happening.
The same thing that happened in South Carolina and Arizona was also attempted in Oklahoma, and theyāre halfway to succeeding.
Oklahoma is a state that is dominated by Pro-Life leaders in nearly every position of power or influence. There is no meaningful pro-abortion opposition in Oklahoma.
But that didnāt stop Pro-Life Republican legislators from trying to repeal the two Oklahoma statutes that criminalized self-managed abortion.
They got halfway there when they repealed one of the statutes while passing their ātriggerā law in 2021, SB 918, which went into effect in 2022 after Roe was overturned. Repealed Oklahoma statute prohibiting self-managed abortion.
This year, they went back to try to finish the job with SB 834 to repeal the other statute prohibiting self-managed abortions.
And the state affiliate of National Right to Life supported it.
All 9 Pro-Life Republicans on the Senate committee voted to repeal it. A second Oklahoma statute that Pro-Life legislators attempted to repeal.
At least SB 834 hasnāt passed. Yet. The question is, why does this keep happening?
The answer is simple.
The majority of Pro-Life organizations that lobby for legislation at the state and federal levels do not want women to EVER be subject to legal penalties for aborting their own babies. Not now, not ever. Period.
More than 75 Pro-Life organizations signed onto an open letter from National Right to Life to every legislator across the country, saying exactly that.
In that letter they state that:
āAs national and state pro-life organizations, representing tens of millions of pro-life men, women, and children across the country, let us be clear: We state unequivocally that we do not support any measure seeking to criminalize or punish women and we stand firmly opposed to include such penalties in legislationā¦
We will continue to oppose legislative and policy initiatives that criminalize women who seek abortionsā¦
We urge you [legislators] to reject any measure that seeks to criminalize women who have abortions.ā[4]
Equal protection for preborn babies, which means that murdering anyone would be illegal for everyone, is not even a goal that they have for the future.
In fact, they OPPOSE that goal.
Oftentimes this opposition goes on behind the scenes as they lobby individually with legislators in state capitols and persuade them to keep equal protection legislation from moving through legislative committees to the floor. Other times they put their cards on the table publicly like they did in Louisiana and Missouri.
And sometimes they make it REALLY clear by going so far as to rip out EXISTING laws that deter mothers from murdering their own children.
You HAVE to understand. This isnāt just a difference in strategy. They actually oppose equal protection for preborn children.
This is a difference in foundation.
Abolitionists call for equal protection because that is what God demands. His command is to establish justice for the fatherless without partiality. The biblical principles of equal protection found throughout Godās Word arenāt just a suggested strategy or one of many possible ways to abolish the evil of abortion.
They are our foundation. With Godās help, we build all of our goals and strategies on His Word. In this fight against one of the greatest evils of our day, we must trust that Godās ways, both the ends and the means, are perfect. We walk by faith and not by sight, trusting Him to give the victory.
I hope you are with us in this fight.
For life, for justice, and for the glory of God, Bradley Pierce
Their pollsters and political consultants tell them standing for the unborn when it really counts is a “losing issue”.
ProLifers are poor political allies. Following the repeal of Row V Wade they disappeared, leaving ProLife politicians in a lurch. Meanwhile, abortionist voters have been everywhere since 2022.
There have been 6 statewide ballot initiative supporting abortion that have passed overwhelmingly. Either, ProLifers don’t exist or they are too complacent to vote.
Iād like to know if abortions have decreased since roe overturned. I certainly hope so.
Just following their leader trump who thinks 6 weeks is too harsh. What did you expect after a republican prez locked us down, restricted travel, social distancing, mask mandates.. blank checks for big pharma and gov medical. Then as a middle finger to the Constitutionā¦ mail in ballots with the CARES act.
Conservatives have been voting against you and their never stopping.. McCarthy, whom Trump endorsed instead of a handful of fiscally conservative nominees, is about to fund this tyranny again.
In honor of all those people who died in homes and hospitals alone without the humanity of a funeralā¦ stop trusting the almighty R. What did any of them do to earn your trust.
More importantly when are you going to leave this abusive relationship.
Because they are actually murderous democrats?
Trump is an East Coast Rockefeller Republican who somehow convinced millions of conservatives he was one of us.
Stupid question. Because there's no such thing as R's. There's only RINO's.
The issue is misunderstood. The theologians of tge now maligned and underestimated Catholic Church studied it publishing their findings in Humanae Vitae in 1968
It described what would happen if our western culture were to accept artificial birth control, now unthinkable to not accept. It was a warning.
It told us all that would happen that is now unfolding from the destruction of the family to explaining what is happening in the transsexual issue we are now witnessing.
Abortion is a result of birth control. Birt control does not prevent abortion it creates the need for it.
Take away abortion and you cannot practice birth control. Anyone who practices birth control has abortion as a plan b
People are not dealing with tge issue. Abortion is birth control. People donāt want to give that up. They arenāt even admitting it.
Even in so called pro life areas people donāt see that giving up abortion means giving up birth control.
When conservatives say that others are not willing to give up abortion theyāre surprised to see this in conservative areas like so Carolina. Tgey donāt see that conservatives have accepted that they themselves are also not willing to give up abortion
The theologians of the now maligned and underestimated Catholic Church studied it publishing their findings in Humanae Vitae in 1968
It described what would happen if our western culture were to accept artificial birth control, now unthinkable to not accept. It was a warning.
It told us all that would happen that is now unfolding from the destruction of the family to explaining what is happening in the transsexual issue we are now witnessing.
Abortion is a result of birth control. Birt control does not prevent abortion it creates the need for it.
Take away abortion and you cannot practice birth control. Anyone who practices birth control has abortion as a plan b that even so called conservatives accept
How much money have people given them to fight and they compromise?
<>leaving ProLife politicians in a lurch<>
Nothing stops them from opposing the evil barbarism of abortion.
Scotus so coarsened society, that after fifty years of Roe, most Americans don’t give the immorality of abortion a second thought.
FU Scotus.
I heard the same comment about slavery in the early 1800s.
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