SUPPORTERS TO PRESS LAWMAKERS ON CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Supporters of personhood – or civil rights from the moment of conception – will stage a rally at the S.C. State House later this month.
The event – organized by former congressional candidate Richard Cash – will be held on Wednesday, March 16. Its goal is to encourage lawmakers in the S.C. General Assembly to put a personhood amendment on the statewide ballot this year.
Specifically, Cash’s organization – Personhood S.C. – is hoping lawmakers will pass H. 4093/ S. 719, companion bills which would amend the South Carolina constitution to extend the right to life “to both born and preborn persons beginning at conception.”
“The window of opportunity is open to put the Personhood Amendment on November’s ballot, but it won’t be for long,” Cash wrote in an email to his supporters.
Currently fifty-three members of the S.C. House of Representatives – including powerful Speaker Jay Lucas – are listed as sponsors of the legislation. You would think that level of support might mean the bill would see some forward motion in this “Republican-controlled” chamber, but as of this writing it has been languishing in the House judiciary committee since last April.
Weak, huh?
Guess House “Republicans” were busy doing other things.
In the State Senate, the personhood bill has eleven sponsors – and has similarly been languishing at the committee level.
Will anyone step up and move these bills forward? We doubt it …
Most “Republicans” at the S.C. State House aren’t really pro-life … they just want to be seen as pro-life.
We support personhood amendments because we believe in the right to life. We also support fixing the state’s broken adoption laws so that it’s easier for women who decide to choose life.
“You can’t tell women not to abort and then make adoption difficult,” one of our pro-choice readers recently told us.
That’s a fair point …
Anyway, for more information on the Personhood movement in South Carolina, click here.
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8 comments
You can start worrying about the rights of the unborn after you restore the rights of the undead.
The 666th Amendment, the right to eat brains?
Hey Flip,you been served yet?
Not yet. I give the waitress 5 minutes before I walk out.
“Most “Republicans” at the S.C. State House aren’t really pro-life … they just want to be seen as pro-life.”
But they sure love playing with fire to get the single issue nutter vote. They would vote for Stalin if he swore he was pro life. This is not a Legal issue, it is a cultural issue. Anything otherwise is thinly veiled Fascism. Don’t like abortion? Then do everything you can to change society’s opinion, starting with your relatives and friends, but leave people’s personal legal rights alone. I hate the idea of abortion but it is Legal and culturally accepted.
so gun rights can’t be touched, can’t even be thought about rationally, because its in the constitution, and the slaughter of innocents pursing their happiness (also in the constitution i think) makes no difference. But family planning, personal medical issues, what goes on between doctor and patient – that’s all on the table? got it. Go christians! really…..go somewhere else.
The guy behind this rally is Richard Cash. Name familiar? He ran against Graham in the 2014 Republican Senate Primary and got 8.3% of the vote — behind runner-up Lee Bright, but at least ahead of Nancy Mace with 6.2%.
That’s not the most interesting thing (no, not that he has 8 children), but what has he done with the $464,058.41 left over in his campaign fund? Maybe he has learned a thing or two about campaign fund grifting from Newt or Dr. Ben.
How soon we forget: whatever happened to this voice of reason?
https://www.fitsnews.com/2014/03/13/lazenby-sc-personhood-bills-stopped-subcommittee/