| Subj: | Jim Kopp |
| Date: | 3/20/2008 7:47:47 A.M. Central Daylight Time |
| From: | jdmd@ptd.net |
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Abortion
is Murder (Formerly
Stop the Killing of Young People (skyp) and soon, perhaps, Stop
Killing Preemies)
May 3, 2008, Vol. 6, No. 3
Phone message –484-651-0212, 610-396-0332
Email – johndunk@ptd.net
Web – skyp1.blogspot.com
Circulation – 28
John Dunkle, Editor
CONGRESS
VOIDS ROE
_____________ sent
me this with a “Special Note to my Evangelical brothers and
sisters: If you don’t jump on this, the RCs could get lazy, you know:
they need your help and enthusiasm . . .”.
This is the headline you never saw in 2004. Imagine if a law were passed against Roe v. Wade and no one knew? That's why I get Frequently Asked Questions about Laci's Law:
What
is
"Laci's Law"?
"Laci
and Connor's Law” ( 18
Why
make
a law?
Laci carried a child she loved so much she named him, Connor, before he was even born. Geraldo Rivera, no friend to life, called Connor "Laci Peterson's unborn son" on the TV. When the wind shifts, some know.
Connor,
eight months gestation, was expelled shortly after
Laci's murder, dying before, or, drowning after birth/stillbirth. His
and his Mom's bodies washed up on
"Laci and Connor's Law" made it a separate, federal crime to kill an unborn child, connected or unconnected with an attack on his or her mother. The law is in force in Fed. situations: Fed. property, parks, military, trains, cruise ships, etc.
But how can the Fed. pass a law outlawing the murder of an unborn child, and still uphold Roe? Because you and I are asleep. The pro-aborts are terrified we'll wake up. Now is the time for all born people to come to the aid of American moms and babies, and through them, the kids’ genocide overseas with our technology, investment capital pressure and ideology. Please read on.
What
do
the prolifers on the Supreme Court say?
They're waiting for you to bring a case. You can't just knock on the door of the Court and bring flowers. You’ve got to bring a case, or find one, or help one that is there already. The pro-abort pols know this, are terrified of it, freely admit this will stop Roe, and have said so on record in Congress, while we were sleeping.
Isn't
this just a "headline" law? Can't it be
overturned by "
No.
Laci's Law follows state fetal homicide laws, which have
been around for decades and which are very solid law.
Scott Peterson is in San Quentin partly because
So
how
come we never heard about this before? It's
been three years.
The prolife movement is sleeping. (Ssssssh!) Don't wake it up. Just go about your business one-to-one, and tell people that you know about this.
Why would Congress care about one dead baby? There are so many.
Laci Peterson was a devout Hispanic Christian. Her family browbeat the press into prosecuting Scott back when no one cared. Hispanics love life, babies and families. Mainstream prolifers are diffident or tired, or, the Last Greatest Generation has left us. They took the sense of urgency and can-do of Depression survival and WW II victory with them. We need it back. Have you got it?
If
Laci
and Connor's Law outlaws murder of unborns, why is abortion still
around?
Laci and Connor's Law has an "abortion exception" clause ( § 1841 (c)). I know -- totally schizophrenic. This clause, however, does not stop Laci and Connor's Law from "flipping" (reversing) Roe.
How
could
Laci’s Law “flip” Roe?
I
thought you'd never ask! Roe
has
a separate clause in it, the Blackmun, or the Establishment Clause,
which states that any future establishment of human life as a legal
person would nullify Roe. “[
So.
Laci's Law establishes unborn babies as legal persons?
You got it! Laci's Law, subsection (d) states: "An unborn child is a member of the species Homo sapiens living in the uterus." Subsections (a) and (b) state that this child can be murdered, and if so, the murderer will receive the exact same punishment as for murdering a born person.
Good. So how about this “abortion exception”?
The
'abortion exception’ clause in Laci's Law says you can't
use
Laci's Law directly to outlaw abortion, but it says nothing about using
Laci's Law to flip Roe. It's a two-step
process. First, the Supes apply
subsections 1841 (a), (b) and (d) of Laci's Law to the Establishment
Clause of Roe, and find that they satisfy it. Then,
later, if
Sounds
tricky.
The Lord knows the way through the wilderness. All we have to do is follow. If you've got a better idea, I'm all ears. Meanwhile, let's pray, pray, pray, and act. Quick. Real quick
How
about
choice?
Babies choose life! Just deliver 'em and ask 'em! So do their moms. Read the testimonials: silentnomoreawareness.org, or Google the phrase. Many, many of those women state flat-out they would never have gotten an abortion if it were illegal. Any experienced sidewalk or CPC counselor will tell you outlawing abortion will take pressure off young moms, so they can do what they want to do anyway, and the younger young women will see how it goes, and adapt. Otherwise, they're just at the mercy of predatory males (13 or 33), irresponsible husbands, or even procurement experts or “coyotes.”
Why
would
this work, when states have been attacking Roe for years about
24-hour-notice laws, etc?
It's a total sea-change now. Personhood is legally established now. Plus, part of the reason it will work is because the pro-aborts admit it will! They said it in Congress during the Laci's Law debates (Sessions, 108th). And, they say it now:
“ . . . unborn children, whether viable or not, will be considered as human beings, and therefore, whole as persons as victims of crime.”
"[Laci's Law] extension of legal personhood to a [baby] is entirely unprecedented in the history of federal law."
"[The Supreme Court] could be forced to do what it has avoided for over thirty years: determine the ultimate value of the life interest and decide when that life interest begins." (155 Syr.L.Rev. JJ[2004])
But
the
Court has struggled with this before...?
Not on these terms. "When faced with the deprivation of life and the deprivation of privacy/liberty, the Court would arguably be more willing to make a trade-off to protect the life interest." (ibid.) These are pro-aborts talking, saying this stuff. Let's say it louder and earlier. Let's say it in court. Hurry up!
Any
other
signs this is a critical moment?
Sandra Day O'Connor, no friend of life, said Roe is on a collision course with state fetal homicide laws (paraphrase).
She said this before Laci's Law even existed. Let's have a collision now, before another 50 million babies and moms get toasted, huh?
But
these
are words. How do we know that even a good Court would interpret it
right?
Prayer.
But hurry up. We
never would have got this far, embryo
massacres, etc., if we had resisted surgical abortion back then. Now, everyone has moved on. If
we don't exploit this now, Mercy of God, what's next? Next
it will be 16 years of
How
about
the
Only a constitutional amendment can trump the Supes . . . unless the Supes trump themselves when they see Laci's Law reverses their own decision, just as it says in the Establishment Clause. The Supes have reversed themselves thirty-four times.
This
is
all legal gobbledygook to me. What can I
do to help?
You can't write your congressman, they've already voted. You can't write your lobby group, they already lobbied, thank God. We all know nothin' new is happening in the next 16 years except massive distraction from babies in the form of wars, new wars, government takeover of hospitals, cloning, etc.
I could write the President.
He's the one who crowed over this "culture of life." He'll back up whatever else we do, I bet. Hurry up.
What
if
the Supreme Court doesn't see it this way?
They
won't, if we wait long enough. Liberal
Supes have their doctors and respirator repairmen on speed dial. All they gotta do is hang on till the first
Wednesday AM in Nov., '08, and then it’s clear sailing, fifty more
years of baby dismemberment. We're in a
narrow window, and it took a lot of sweat and
[Note: Nothing
more of substance beyond this point...]
I’M PRAYING YOU'LL READ THIS PARAGRAPH.
HEY, A GUY CAN DREAM, RIGHT?
OK, I'm scared. What can I do,
really?
This will be the work of the Holy Spirit, or it will be nothing.
Give the kids some crayons, give the spouse a Netflick, and sit down in
a quiet place and write down the name of anyone you ever met who ever
gave a damn about anything. Then cross off the names of the
naysayers, Eeyores, criticizers. Be sure to add the names of
quiet, mild Christians who aren't self-starters but never
criticize. This is a prayer warrior operation.
...and
then?
Beseech Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to give you an answer,
as He wills, whether to mail a copy of this to them. He will, as
He wills. But go to Him empty-handed, open-ended. Don't make
conditions. Don't ask for other things. Pray for 9 or 10
days, huh? Pray alone, for hours at a time, walking around the
block, or at dawn, or dusk, or in the middle of the night. Just
pray. Then, if He doesn't drop a piano on your head out of the
sky, and you feel a peace about it, then please mail it out, quick.
Suggestion: Put Laci Connor, c/o Postmaster, Modesto, CA 95099 as
return, or, blank. USPS will deliver it. Put your own
address if you wish, of course. Toujours l’Audace!
How about pastors, churches,
organizations, etc?
Unless your pastor/churchmembers are Dr. Dobson, Kieth Green,
Francis Schaeffer, B16 or someone like that, then leave them all alone
for now. This is a time for "yesses" and hope. And
trying. The Lord needs many yesses right now. Groups and
organizations mean lawyers, and lawyers means "no."
How come we never heard about this
before?
These are the dying words of my dear sister: "The medical
establishment knows how to cure/stop cancer. They don't do it
because they'd be out of work."
Yowch. Sounds judgmental.
OK, I'll accuse myself. We're all asleep. Wake
up! Try this: In the mid-80's, a major pro-life
organization asked Dr. Bernard Nathanson to reschedule for a speech
five years in the future from then. Dr. Nathanson said, five
years from now there shouldn't be a pro-life movement. I say, we
have lost our sense of urgency, which should be no less than the
urgency we feel if we see our son or grandson thrown under a bus.
Nathanson knows what he's talking about. He's seen it with his
own eyes. Most of us have not. It's just "an issue."
But Jesus is coming back soon ...
right?
Maybe. Maybe not. What if you're wrong? What if
we're poised at the beginning of a millennium of more aggressive Third
World genocide (hint: "global warming" is the smokescreen), more
Christian hospitals forced to hand out Plan B, more cloning, etc.
What will you tell your grandchildren you were doing back when babies
were being pulled to pieces? Just a thot. Another: don't
mistake “signs and wonders” for just the sounds and whinings of yet
another dying civilization, in a string of 'em back to the start.
I have a friend who prays. He
says this won't work. It's in the flesh.
In God's universe, prayer and faithful compassion are two parts
of one thing, that we can't separate (James 4).
Another friend says flipping Roe won't
work. He says we still have to go “state-to-state.” He says a
Human Life Amendment is better.
He's right, but you can't get to the HLA without going
state-to-state anyway. It's in the Constitution. On the
path to stopping all abortion, you have to go state-to-state, either
post-Roe or pre-HLA. Either one helps bring about the other, and
HLA is not on the boards right now. A post-Roe state-by-state
debate and state legislation will set up HLA though, DV. One way
or another, we've got to go state-to-state. There are no cheap
solutions. One immediate effect of flipping Roe, in addition to
setting up the necessary state-to-state thing for the HLA, is an
immediate stop of 10-15% of abortions.
What about...? (Fill in the blank)
What about it? While we sit here talking, kids die, right?
Let's just try this. We don't need to know the final step, we just need
to know the next one, and to keep our hand in the Hand of the Lord. Any
action like this will have the effect of bringing abortion back to the
attention of the people, reminding them that we routinely kill kids.
Even if this doesn't work, it should be tried. I guarantee that if we
aim at nothing, we'll hit it. Right now, except for a tired, tiny
handful of sidewalk and CPC workers, this country is completely
comfortable with child dismemberment. Wouldn't you agree?
OK, so I tell my friends. Now
what? What's next?
The Lord knows the way through the wilderness, all we have to do
is follow. He will show a way. I must admit, active in
politics and action all my life, I've never been here before. But
you know what? Let's dream together, and you tell me your dreams
too:
(to be concluded in the next
issue)