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(ABA) - Six states have passed laws banning abortions after the 20th week of gestation in an apparent conflict with Roe v. Wade, but no one has challenged the legislation in court.
The laws—passed in Nebraska, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Oklahoma and Alabama—are based on the theory that a fetus can feel pain the 20th week after conception, the New York Times reports.
The 20-week limit conflicts with Roe v. Wade, which holds that abortion cannot be banned until the fetus is viable. Generally viability is thought to be at the 24th week, the story says, citing information from the Guttmacher Institute...
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SO BEGINS THE HOLY AMERICAN REBELLION
We the people of the states, do hereby assert our state sovereignty against the tyranny of our own federal government. For forty years the United States federal government has engaged in a war of extermination against the children of this nation, systematically killing them within their own mothers' wombs.
Today we exercise our state sovereignty against the murderous acts of our federal government. We expect legal resistance, and we will not be swayed. We will continue to fight against this tyranny, using every legal means at our disposal, even if it means dismantling the entire federal government through constitutional convention. We will not stop. We will fight forever because God is on our side. When we are gone our children will fight, and their children after them. This is a holy war. We did not start it, but we will finish it.
Our weapons are prayer, the Declaration of Independence and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our forefathers broke their chains of tyranny some 235 years ago. We will follow their example in braking our chains today. These are the SOVEREIGN states of America. The power to govern is only on loan to the federal republic. If the federal republic will not yield to our state sovereignty then we will dismantle it, and we will do it using the legal tools given to us by our Founding Fathers via a national Constitutional Convention, if that's what it takes.
The states have now retaliated against the federal tyranny launched against them forty years ago. The 20-week law is just the beginning. Soon we will roll it back to 16 weeks, then 12, and so on, until abortion is made illegal in our states. The ball now rests in the Supreme Court of the United States. The justices of this court now carry the heaviest burden ever carried by Supreme Court justices. Their decision on this matter will determine the fate of the federal republic. If they uphold the states rights to limit abortion, then the current republic will likely be preserved. If they deny them, then we can look forward to a nationwide movement by the states to eliminate our current federal government entirely in constitutional convention.
May I remind all my readers now that a measure to enact a constitutional convention has already run through the states. The magic number is 34. If 34 states approve the measure, another constitutional convention will be held, and the federal government's grip on power will effectively be ended. The following states have already approved the measure...
Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | Delaware | Colorado |
Georgia | Idaho | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas |
Maryland | Mississippi | Missouri | Nebraska | Nevada |
New Hampshire | New Mexico | North Carolina | North Dakota | Oklahoma |
Oregon | Pennsylvania | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee |
Texas | Utah | Virginia | Wyoming |
The magic number to legally make a constitutional convention happen is 34 states. There are 29 listed above that have already passed resolutions calling for one. Another 3 states have also called for one (Alabama, Florida and Louisiana) but they recently rescinded their call based on fears that a convention may do more harm than good. However, those rescissions have not yet been challenged in court, and there is a good chance they may be invalid. Only one state is needed to tip the scales. If so much as one more state, anywhere in the Union, were to pass a resolution calling for a Constitutional Convention, a chain of events would be set into motion that would be virtually unstoppable. The rescissions of Alabama, Florida and Louisiana would immediately be called into court on the grounds that they are invalid. Regardless of the outcome of the cases, the news of this hitting the airwaves would spur at least a few other states to call for a convention too, causing a bandwagon effect, effectively making the previous 3 state's rescissions a moot point. Just one more state is all it will take to set the ball into motion. Just one more state will have the opportunity to make history. Which state will it be?
As I said, the ball squarely rests in the U.S. Supreme Court now. If the justices rule against the states rights to limit abortion now, it will be the final insult to state sovereignty, signaling a federal government that has completely run amok and no longer serves the people. That, combined with our nation's economic woes, will be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back.
3 comments:
Dear Catholic Knight,
Praise God for this bold movement that seeks to extend shelter for life!! As a survivor of micro premi birth (very very rare 40 years ago when I came into this world at only 26 weeks gestation - paid the bill, so to speak, with significant vision impairment, but a fair price, Sir Knight, for the life I live is wondrous blesssing beyond compare) I am acutely aware of the rise to prominence of the culture of death and its devistating wake...additionally, as the daughter of an adopted mother and sister of an adopted brother, long before any faith based niceties come into play, I grieve the millions who have never experienced a single day due to the laws that have robbed them of this gift - if such laws had been available 'back then', my brother, my mother, and I would likely not have been here. Think about it. The disabled have been historically barred from the abortion discussion at the civic level with charges that we are too emotionally involved - too right we are - for the able bodied play god with our lives and decide who will survive and who will not. I've two second cousins with significant genetic disabilities; one with downe's syndrome who is perhaps the most enthusiastic person I have ever met. the other lived for 31 years, just over, with CF; a debilitating disease, but never once did she regret the choice for life she was allowed to have and found the whole issue of selective genetic termination grievous, as do many in the disabled community. When the 'kill switch' is so easily available there is little impetus for curative and restorative therapies to be researched, or for the development of treatements that make the life lived better. Furthermore, life is carved in the image that the able bodied see as best, one in which imperfection is sperned and some types of life are seen as lesser in value when compared to others. The measure of a community's civilization is best evidenced by its care of the most vulnerable and voiceless among its number. As it stands, we need to pick up our game, people!!
EVERYBODY SHOULD READ THIS!! REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU ARE OF FAITH OR NOT OF FAITH!!
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cshad/TheBodyofChristHasDownSyndrome.htm
Readers of this Blog, pray daily for the humble yet mighty Jean Vanier!!
As an aside, I think it is of some concern that, as these six states stand up for a better chance for the right to live, six others have radically transformed their understanding of marriage...weighed scales anybody? especially in light of the decision ruled upon by perhaps one of the most secular governments in the world - the French Govt., this week past.
I shall continue to pray - fervently!!
Sarah,
Australia.
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the CON CON is the best legal remedy around this matter, although with the country divided between red and blue states, even that remedy will degenerate into a "new Constitution" one which will enshrine even stricter separation of church and state, guarantee abortion, gay marriage, graduated income taxes, an all powerful president, etc. Sorry Mr Knight, this WILL do more harm than good. Pete Frey
What may happen, if a CON CON is called, is that the Red state delegates will never see eye to eye with Blue state delegates, which means no new Con will emerge, and we will just split largely along red/blue divides. Honestly, I would not see that as a necessarily bad development (hooray for Jesusland!!). As a conglomerate might do, spin off the poor performing units and maintain the solid performing ones in a united core.
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