[For "pain capable", waiting periods, heartbeat, informed consent, anesthesia, "porotected class" bills, Georgia's effort to ban racially-motivated abortion, etc., see Compromised Incrementalism below.]
PRINCIPLED INCREMENTALISM
When personhood is finally enforced in law, of all the abortion laws then in effect, only the principled incrementalism bills will not be thereby abolished. All compromised incrementalism will be repealed when personhood is in effect. As American RTL wrote to Dr. James Dobson in American RTL's full-page open letter that appeared in newspapers around the country, "Incrementalism is fine; compromised incrementalism violates God's enduring command, Do not murder."
American RTL's two must-read articles, Oppose Regulations Because... and Oppose Exceptions Because... explain the principles that must be adhered to in order to write principled incremental legislation. In summary, the God-given right to life must be advocated without exception. As an example of a horrendous violation of those principles, see ARTL's PBA Summary: Saved Not One, about the 15-year fundraiser that took in a quarter-of-a-billion dollars for the pro-life industry, yet as Dr. Dobson wrote, "Ending partial-birth abortion... does not save a single human life." Rather than being a victory, many pro-life leaders have since condemned the U.S. Supreme Court's Gonzales v. Carhart ruling upholding the PBA "Ban" for being a virtual late-term abortion manual.
COMPROMISED INCREMENTALISM
On the other hand, morally compromised legislation can be recognized in that they are child-killing regulations, present child-killing exceptions, and in that they therefore: - end with "and then you can kill the baby" - would keep abortion legal if Roe were ever merely overturned. "And then you can kill the baby" bills include:
Use the Personhood Test: One way to help people see whether or not an abortion law is principled or not is to apply the personhood test. When America finally recognizes the personhood and God-given right to life of every child, some pro-life laws will become redundant and unnecessary. However, other laws which include "pro-life" regulations and exceptions will be explicitly invalidated and annulled. The pro-life laws that will be merely rendered no longer necessary are the principled incrementalism. The abortion regulations that will be invalidated are the compromised laws. An example of this is found in Ohio's HB 125 "heartbeat bill" which bans the killing of an unborn child only after the detectability of a heartbeat). Morally compromised incremental efforts have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for their supporters but undermine the nation's recognition of the sanctity of human life. Principled pro-life laws build toward victory. So American Right To Life urges everyone to oppose compromised incrementalism and to support only principled laws, and especially personhood!
Compromised: Pain Capable, Heartbeat, Etc: Just like Roe v. Wade, pain capable bills, heartbeat bills, etc., regulate the age at which a child can be killed, showing them to be violations of God's command, Do not kill the innocent (and so also unconstitutional). Therefore, by the law of unintended consequences, though well-intentioned, passing a heartbeat bill can actually increase the number of unborn children killed. For if a "heartbeat bill" becomes law, there would be a predictable significant increase in the use of mechanical abortifacient IUDs and chemical abortifacients like RU-486 (mifepristone) including the routine use of the Morning After Pill.
Without personhood enforced, the child's right to life is denied. So people find ways to comply with the regulations for how and when they can kill unwanted children. The genocidal Roe and Doe v. Bolton opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court, issued concurrently, presented gestational ages after which states can prohibit, although with exceptions, the killing of the unborn child. The 2012 Ohio heartbeat bill, for example, likewise presents an age, with exceptions, after which the child cannot be dismembered or otherwise killed. Of course with opposing motives, these are substantively similar showing that a heartbeat bill is fundamentally a variation on the immoral Roe ruling. And as a heartbeat bill regulates the timing of killing the child, it inherently undermines the recognition of that boy or girl's God-given right to life and personhood. So being instructed by the "pro-life" law that they can only kill their children in the earliest weeks of their lives, a greatly increased percentage of women and young girls, at great risk also to their own health, will start popping Plan B like a vitamin with their morning-after breakfast. As sure as the sun rises in the morning, a heartbeat bill will help mass market the various abortifacients (which are non-surgical). Then multiple factors including biological, economic, and behavioral, can easily combine to kill millions of additional children who, without their mothers even knowing they are there, nor having even a chance for a change of heart, will get flushed down the toilet, children whom we will all meet when we stand before God. Thus because the heartbeat bill is not principled and is not based upon the God-given right to life, that strategy will predictably backfire, give a false sense of victory, and kill even more children, but just not by a scalpel. Any abortion regulation is immoral if it creates a protected "class" of children that makes it obvious that there is also an unprotected "class", as here, the youngest kids and children with quiet heartbeats. Historically, efforts at 100% abortion bans did not create an obvious unprotected class of children, and so, as explained below in ARTL's Esther Analogy, such bans were not morally compromised.
Bring your family and friends to march with thousands of others for life at every stage and every age.
THANKS FOR COMING OUT!
The rally on the West side of the State Capitol will be at 1 p.m., with a march around Civic Center Park at 2:30 p.m. See the march route, about 3/4 mile, at this link.
Speakers at the 1 p.m. rally:
Most Rev. Samuel J. Aquila, Archbishop of Denver
Chris Stefanick, Real Life Catholic
Lynn Grandon, Respect Life, Archdiocese of Denver
Pastor Biff Gore, President of Colorado Right To Life
Musical guests: Danielle Duffy and Sara Guttormson
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Never think we can’t win. We are on God's side. And awareness of Baby Jesus in the womb, even before the manger, works in our favor this season and always. God set knowledge in all hearts – deep down everybody knows a baby is present when a mom is pregnant. The mind may deny it but the heart knows abortion is an injustice from the earliest moments. That’s why the message of Personhood is strengthening. We’re winning! That’s right – winning! We’ll be holding our largest March in history on Jan. 17th (see below) and we’ve gone from 27% to 29% to 35% in Yes votes for recognizing each child’s right to life! The media tells the story as “another failure,” but how many “defeats” did the anti-‐slavery or civil rights struggles have, even as the movement for justice grew stronger every year? Continue reading here...
Personhood Vote Grows from 2008, to 2010, to 2014! The YES vote on Personhood grew to narrow our loss from a 27%, 3-to-1 defeat in 2008 (Amendment 48), to a 29% defeat in 2010 (Amendment 62), to now 35% voting YES on the pro-life Brady personhood Amendment 67. So we've narrowed the loss from 3-to-1 to better than 2-to-1. That encourages us!
Join Us: in praying for the wisdom and resources to build on this increase the Lord has given us. Another way of looking at our growth from 2008 to 2010 is that we saw a ten percent increase in those who voted Yes! Please pray with us and work with us now so that we can reach even more people so that together we will protect every child by love and by law.
Colorado RTL needs YOU to be a wise and effective protector of the innocent! So please if you can, sign up for the Right To Life Education program at ARTL and get a 40-year pro-life education in only 40 days!
CRTL THANK YOU TO:
From Biff Gore and the whole team at Colorado RTL, we give a heartfelt thank you to: - Heather Surovik, Brady's mom - our partner Personhood USA - our campaign director Susan Sutherland - our supporters, volunteers, and prayer warriors - the hundreds of churches that honored God by not remaining silent - And we most want to thank our Lord Jesus Christ, our God, Creator, and Risen Savior!
So, This Is What "The Beginning" Looks Like:
The Brady Personhood Amendment 67 won six counties outright! So, as it turns out, this map is what the beginning looks like!
Abortion is wrong because it's a baby, and it's always wrong to intentionally kill a baby, and that's because children are made in God's image and God said, "Do not kill the innocent."
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