Personhood for the Unborn

1. Personhood for the Unborn • What you can do? Support CI 102

2. CLASH of WORLD VIEWS • God is sovereign. • Every human life is sacred and of utmost value because God made it so. • Life and human rights come from God. • Humans are depraved, in need of a redeemer and rule of law VS • Humans are sovereign, and their autonomy and personal freedoms are the highest value • Elite humans are capable of deciding whose life is worth living—who is allowed to live or die • If we create the right environment, we can remove the need for girls/women to abort

3. WHY SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS ISSUE? • We must stand up for God’s principles, especially the sanctity of life and speak against the destruction of the image of God, the temple of the Holy Spirit occurring with the destruction of innocent human life. • We must be watchman, our brother’s keepers—not just for the unborn but for the other victims of abortion that need healing—especially mothers of aborted children. • We must expose deception.  Most prochoice advocates don’t know what they’re supporting. • There are consequences of abortion; our nation is being judged.

4. OVER 50 MILLION SACRED UNBORN LIVES DESTROYED IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1973

6. UNQUESTIONABLY, HUMAN LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION

7. Personhood is logically defined by membership in the human species.

8. WHY A STATE PERSONHOOD CONSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE?

9. SUCCESSFUL NON-LEGISLATIVE PROLIFE STRATEGIES • Prayer, fasting, crisis pregnancy centers, peaceful protests, sidewalk counseling save lives. • Thousands of unborn children are still destroyed each day by abortion.

10. PROLIFE LEGISLATIVE STRATEGIES THAT HAVE FAILED • parental notification, provisions for fetal pain alleviation, regulation of abortion clinics, fetal homicide laws, etc • Even the partial birth abortion ban is a failure. • voting for prolife candidates • getting prolife majority on the US Supreme Court THEY FAIL BECAUSE THEY DON’T ADDRESS PERSONHOOD and THEY are BASED on ACCEPTANCE of ROE V WADE as the LAW OF THE LAND. What about a federal human life amendment?

11. THE PRINCIPLE OF PERSONHOOD • We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator by certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”      Declaration of Independence     July 4, 1776 • Every human being deserves equal protection under the law.

12. Roe v Wade removed legal protection from an entire class of human beings--the unborn.

13. PERSONHOOD PIVOTAL to OVERTURNING ROE v WADE • In the Roe v. Wade decision, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote that, “(If the) suggestion of personhood [of the pre-born}] is established, the [abortion rights] case, of the course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.” • Thus, the personhood of the pre-born child is the single point of which the entire debate turns.

14. WHAT A PERSONHOOD INITIATIVE WILL DO • Brings abortion tragedy to the people • Supports prolife legislation • Stepping stone to overturn Roe v Wade • Allows high powered legal council to take it to the US Supreme Court • Encourages other states to follow suit • Affirms that Montana is a pro-life state that recognizes the dignity and value of human life • Sends this message to our legislators • Pricks the collective conscience by dramatizing injustice. Social reform has always been achieved this way

15. OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WOULD SAY ABORTION PLACES OUR NATION IN GREAT PERIL • “And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?”    Thomas Jefferson (Engraved on Jefferson Memorial) • “We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.”     George Washington’s inaugural address 1789

16. IT’S UP TO US • “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to government of any other.”    John Adam 1798 • But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.  Ezekiel 33:6

17. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. II Chronicles 7:14

18. FIGHT AGAINST ALL ODDS AS WE SERVE OUR MIGHTY GOD • “In the beginning of the Contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for Divine protection—Our prayers, Sir, were heard and they were graciously answered.  All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending Providence in our favor.”    Benjamin Franklin, Constitutional Convention 1787

19. WHY BE PROLIFE?WHY SIGN THE PETITION? Abortion is the ultimate human rights issue Each human is created for special purpose Abortion destroys an image of God Personhood a stepping stone to overturning Roe vs Wade Human life is sacred

20. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King Jr.Deliver those being taken to death, and those stumbling to be killed, unless you hold back. If you say, Behold, we did not know; does not He who searches the heart consider it? And the Keeper of your soul, does He know? And He repays to a man according to his works. Proverbs 24:11,12“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves... Proverbs 31:8-9

21. Address and Printed Name Must be Legible Sign on a sheet for the county in which you are registered to vote.