Romanist Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum Opposes Colorado Personhood Amendment
Press Release
Columbia Christians for Life
October 20, 2010
Romanist Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum Opposes Colorado Personhood Amendment
Dame of Malta, Phyllis Schlafly of the Roman Catholic Establishment is yet another prominent
Roman Catholic voice against recognizing now, the God-given, unalienable right to life of every human being as a "Person" beginning at fertilization, in State statutory or constitutional law. Multiple States over the years have been pursuing this principled pro-life effort to END "abortion" in America.
The three major enemies of State-level personhood amendments to END "abortion" in America are:
1) ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS [ appointed by the Pope ]
2) NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE, and
3) AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE.
Perhaps the # 4 major enemy of State-level personhood amendments to END "abortion" in America is:
4) EAGLE FORUM
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Montana chapter of Rome's National Right to Life also opposes
Montana Personhood Constitutional Amendment ballot initiative
Bible-believing Christian and other principled pro-personhood pro-lifers:
- PLEASE DO NOT HEED THE FALSE COUNSEL of ROME'S ENEMIES
OF STATE PERSONHOOD BILLS AND CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS:
- These are the three principal Romanist enemies of the many efforts to
recognize the God-given, unalienable right to life of every human being
as a "person" beginning at fertilization, in State Constitutional and/or Statutory law:
1) ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS [ appointed by the Pope ]
2)NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE,and
3) AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE.
June 18, 2010 / Corrected and Revised June 27, 2010
MISSOURI ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS REJECT MISSOURI PERSONHOOD AMENDMENT:
Now at least Seven States' Roman Catholic Bishops have opposedPersonhood efforts
Roman Catholic Bishops of these Seven States have OPPOSEDState-Level Personhood legislation:
- MICHIGAN: 2006
- GEORGIA: 2008
- COLORADO: 200820092010
- MONTANA: 20082009
- NORTH DAKOTA: 2009
- FLORIDA: 2009
- MISSOURI: 2010 [ April 19, 2010 ]
May 20, 2010 / Corrected and Revised May 22, 2010
National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) originally founded in 1968 under the auspices
of the National Conference of [ Roman ] Catholic Bishops (NCCB)
"The Supreme Court decision of January 22, 1973, overthrowing all existing abortion laws, led
to an enormous growth in the movement. The National Right to Life Committee which had
been founded in 1968 under the auspices of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops,
in 1973 became autonomous and non-sectarian. It is the largest and most influential national
organization, with well over two thousand local affiliates by the 1980s."
Posted August 1, 2010
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Eagle Forum Opposes Personhood Amendment
November 30, 2009
[ emphasis added ]
The "personhood" initiative lost by a landslide of 73% to 27% in Colorado in 2008, and its unpopular coattails hurt good pro-life candidates there. This poorly designed initiative would not prevent a single abortion even it if became law, and its vague language would enable more mischief by judges.
Now its organizers, who provide little information about themselves or their funding, spread their disaster to key swing states like Florida, Missouri, Nevada and Montana. This hurtful effort misleads pro-lifers with the false hope that a referendum can overturn Roe v. Wade, when only the U.S. Supreme Court can do that. This enriches pro-abortion groups with a fundraising issue as they claim to preserve abortion by suing to stop this initiative,
and they have already filed several lawsuits.
Florida's Catholic Bishops recently banned the collection of any signatures for this ill-advised initiative at churches there, and most pro-life groups also oppose this initiative. We encourage support of pro-life candidates, and oppose hurtful gimmicks like the personhood initiative.
[ CCL Note: Anti-State-Level Personhood Amendment, and advocate of "exceptions" in "pro-life [ sic ] legislation,
James Bopp, Jr. is the general(legal)counselfortheNational Right to Life Committee. Bopp's 2007
Memorandum also defends the unbiblical acceptance of "exceptions" to "abortion" for rape, incest,
fetal deformity, and "harm to the mother" in "pro-life" [sic] legislation. (see more information on
Mr. Bopp further below) ]
Legal Memorandum Against Personhood Amendments
[ emphasis added ]
In this 11-page legal memorandum dated August 7, 2007, noted pro-life [ CCL: sic ] attorney James Bopp explains why a state personhood amendment cannot overturn Roe v. Wade and other U.S. Supreme Court decisions that legalized abortion.
Mr. Bopp also explains that if a state personhood amendment goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, "there is the potential danger that the Court might actually make things worse than they presently are." That would be the result if the Supreme Court augmented by new Justices appointed by Barack Obama adopts the position long advocated by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and begins deciding abortion cases under the equal protection clause of the
14th Amendment instead of the due process clause.
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The Personhood Amendment is a Mistake
EAGLE FORUM
Phyllis Schlafly, President
May 6, 2010
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Colorado Eagle Forum Opposes Personhood Amendment
August 31, 2009
The Colorado Chapter of National Eagle Forum is joining with other chapters across the country in opposition
of the re-introduction of the Personhood Amendment in their states. It is, at least in part, because of the reasons
set forth by James Bopp Jr., National Right to Life's attorney, who outlined the unintended consequences in a 2007
memo that is relevant to the Colorado amendment. A state law or state constitutional amendment cannot overturn the
U. S. Constitution or a decision of the U. S. Supreme Court. If the personhood Amendment were to pass, unborn babies
would be in more danger than they are under Roe v. Wade because a new Court case would give the pro-abortion Justices
the opportunity to change their legal theory from the one used in Roe v. Wade (the right to privacy) to the legal theory espoused for many years (including again this month) by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (that abortion should be legalized
as an issue of gender discrimination). This shift in legal theory could enable judges to outlaw all pro-life laws enacted in
the last 40 years, including the Hyde Amendment.
Do we really want our new pro-abortion member of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ms. Sotomayor, having the final say on
a life issue?
Jayne Schindler, Pres. Colorado Eagle Forum
Resolution
[ CCL Note: Notice that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, National Right to Life, and
Americans United for Life are all named in the Resolution below as being among
those organizations whose "legal experts" "almost without exception" are opposed
to "Personhood Amendments." ]
[ emphasis added ]
WHEREAS, many pro-life citizens have become frustrated in their attempts to re-criminalize abortion since it was made legal in Colorado 43 years ago and in all 50 states 37 years ago; and
WHEREAS, one attempt to re-criminalize abortion is by introduction of citizen initiatives called "Personhood Amendments,"
which would purport to establish the fact that unborn babies are "persons" under the law and would therefore have protection under the U.S. Constitution; and
WHEREAS, this tactic has been thoroughly studied by the most knowledgeable and experienced legal experts of
several pro-life organizations, including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; National Right to Life Committee; Eagle Forum; and Americans United for Life, a Chicago-based lawyers group and the oldest pro-life organization in the nation; and
WHEREAS, almost without exception, these legal experts warn that if such initiatives pass, they will certainly
be challenged in the courts and, given the present make-up of the state and federal courts, they will be overturned, thus having diverted considerable time, effort, and resources on the part of the pro-life movement; and
WHEREAS, these same legal experts further warn that court rulings against such measures could also do more harm by more firmly entrenching the "non-personhood" status of unborn babies, thus having the opposite effect of the proponents of the initiatives; now therefore be it
RESOLVED, that the ______County Republican Party commend the intentions of those who wish to re-criminalize abortion, but urge such individuals and groups to reconsider their tactics in attempting to do so until enough state and federal officials are elected who will appoint and approve more judges who respect the value of human life; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the ______County Republican Party not divert its efforts to restore Republican values to American government and society by expending resources in support of the "Personhood Amendment" now being promoted in Colorado.
Jayne and Jim Schindler, Directors of Colorado Eagle Forum
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9news.com
KUSA-TV9 - NBC
Colorado
"Eagle Forum is strongly pro-life [ CCL: sic ], but they are strongly opposed to any type of personhood amendments..."
(KUSA-TV © 2010 Multimedia Holdings Corporation)
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From Columbia Christians for Life:
ESTABLISHING PERSONHOOD FOR THE PRE-BORN, AT FERTILIZATION,
WITH NO "EXCEPTIONS", IS THE KEY TO ENDING "ABORTION"
"PERSONHOOD" is the KEY to ENDING Child-Murder-by-"Abortion" - listen to the words
of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices themselves in the second Oral Argument of the
Roe v. Wade case (1973):
(AUDIO) "In Their Own Words" - U.S. Supreme Court
Actual audio excerpts of the second Oral Arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court
in the Roe v. Wade case (decision published January 22, 1973) - Argued on October 11, 1972
Recognition of unborn children as persons is the "KEY" to overturning Roe v. Wade
CHILD-MURDER BY "ABORTION" CAN BE ENDED BY RECOGNIZING THE PERSONHOOD
OF PRE-BIRTH HUMAN BEINGS, AT FERTILIZATION, WITHOUT EXCEPTIONS.
President Ronald Reagan PERSONHOOD PROCLAMATION - January 14, 1988
President of the United States of America, Proclamation 5761, National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 1988
- "The unalienable right to life is found not only in the Declaration of Independence but also in the Constitution
that every President is sworn to preserve, protect, and defend. Both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
guarantee that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law."
- "NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare the unalienable
personhood of every American, from the moment of conception until natural death, ..."
PRO-PERSONHOOD ATTORNEYS WRITING ON PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
IN MICHIGAN AND MISSISSIPPI:
Re: 2006 Proposed Michigan Personhood Constitutional Amendment
Professor Charles E. Rice, Professor Emeritus of Law, Notre Dame (Roman Catholic) Letter
April 19, 2006
Re: 2009 Proposed Mississippi Personhood Constitutional Amendment
LIBERTY COUNSEL
Legal Memorandum on the Mississippi Personhood Amendment - 2009
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Additional reports and information:
See also , "Home" and "RTL Act of SC" pages,
and
1) NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE
National Right to Life Committee 30+ year general (legal) counsel, James Bopp, Jr.
wrote a 2007 Memorandumopposing State-level Personhood Legislation, and defending
acceptance of multiple "exceptions" in "pro-life" [sic] legislation, and proposing a litany
of incremental, "abortion"/murder regulation bills.
James Bopp, Jr. (senior partner of Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom’s law firm) and the National Right to Life Committee’sgeneral (legal) counsel in an August 7, 2007 Memorandum Re: "Pro-Life Strategy Issues" attacked State-level personhood amendments; specifically the Georgia Human Life (Personhood) Amendment - which THE TWOGEORGIA ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS PUBLICLY OPPOSED IN JANUARY 2008. Bopp's 2007 Memorandum
also defended the acceptance of "exceptions" for rape, incest, fetal deformity, and "harm to the mother" in
"pro-life" [sic] legislation, while suggesting and promoting a litany of incremental, "abortion"/murder regulation bills, in essence, "First do this or that, "AND THEN YOU CAN KILL THE BABY."
( Bopp's 2007 Memorandum -)
Note: James Bopp, Jr. has served as general counsel for National Right to Life since 1978, and as the special
counsel for Focus on the Family since 2004. Bopp aslo served as an advisor for pro-abort, pro-sodomite,
Mormon Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. THIS HELPS EXPLAIN WHY NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE
STATE CHAPTERSAND THE FOCUS ON THE FAMILY STATE AFFILIATES ARE IN MOST ALL CASES
NOT SUPPORTING STATE-LEVEL PERSONHOOD LEGISLATION AROUND THE COUNTRY.
The National Right to Life Committee was first organized under the auspices of the then-National Conference
of Catholic Bishops in 1968 (FIVE YEARS BEFORE ROE V. WADE IN 1973 ! ???), and then became allegedly "autonomous" [sic] and "non-sectarian" in 1973. [ Source: Dictionary of Christianity [sic] in America, Coordinating Editor, Daniel G. Reid, “Right to Life.”, K.M. Cassidy, 1990 ]
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2) AMERICANS UNITED FOR LIFE
CFR / Georgetown / Jesuit-advised, Americans United for LifeSenior Legal Counsel,
Clarke Forsythe
AUL claims to have been "Founded in 1971 as the first national pro-life organization in the United States"
and touts its efforts in pursuing a number of incrementalist "abortion"/murder regulation legislative measures - however advancing personhood legislation to actually END "abortion" is not on the list on the "About AUL" page. The lists of AUL Directors and Advisory Board members includes two CFR members ( George S. Weigel, Jr. and Robert P. George ); a Roman Catholic Jesuit (S.J.) priest (Kevin T. FitzGerald, S.J.), who is also on the staff of the
Jesuit Georgetown University Medical Center; and another Jesuit Georgetown University Medical Center staffer
(Edward R. Grant, Esq.) as well.
Clarke Forsythe, senior legal counsel of Americans United for Life ( CFR / Jesuit / Jesuit Georgetown University staff on AUL's Directors / Advisors ) opposes State-Level Personhood Legislation: Forsythe attacked the State-level personhood position on the Columbia Christians for Life website in postings on National Review Online
( National Review magazine, founded by the late neo-con William Buckley - CFR-member, Bilderberger,
Skull and Bones member, Roman Catholic, Knight of Malta, The Heritage Foundation, is a prominent false flag "conservative" propaganda tool of the Vatican / Jesuit / PapalNew World Order, providing a media platform for members of the Jesuit-RuledCouncil on Foreign Relations (CFR) ), and also on another Romanist website,
the Rosary-promoting, "National-Right-to-Life-friendly" LifeNews.com.
FORSYTHE'S DILEMMA: LEGAL POSITIVISM
Posted: Tuesday September 29, 2009 at 4:11 pm EST by Judie Brown
ATTACK BY CFR / JESUIT-ADVISED AMERICANS UNITED FOR "LIFE" [sic]
ON THE PERSONHOOD POSITION OF COLUMBIA CHRISTIANS FOR LIFE:
Romanist, Jesuit-advised, Americans United for "Life" [sic] senior legal counsel attacks CCL's "Personhood" position
Americans United for "Life" [sic] has been an opponent of State-level Personhood Legislation to END abortion.
September 21, 2009
Catholic CFR-members (two) on Americans United for Life (AUL) Directors/Advisory Boards;
AUL Sr. Legal Counsel attacked Columbia Christians for Life Personhood position
AUL Board of Directors - Catholic CFR-member George S. Weigel, Jr., Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC
AUL Board of Advisors - Catholic CFR-member Professor Robert P. George, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
September 22, 2009
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STATE-LEVEL PERSONHOOD BILLS and CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
2009 - 2010 - 16 States have had Personhood Legislation Efforts Filed
in State Legislatures or as Ballot Initiatives
Summary Report: 14 States have current Personhood Legislation efforts filed:
- ALA, ALASK, CA, CO, FL, GA, MD, MICH, MISS, MO, MONT, NV, OR, SC
- a/o December 3, 2009 / Revised April 7, 2010
2009-2010 State-Level Personhood (and other selected) Legislation:
- Including State-Level Personhood Bills and Constitutional Amendments
- ALA, ALASK, CA, CO, FL, GA, MD, MICH, MISS, MO, MONT, ND, NV, OR, SC, VA
Updated December 3, 2009 / Revised April 7, 2010
Personhood State Constitutional Amendment introduced In Iowa Legislature
Iowa is one of 16 States which have had Personhood Legislation filed in 2009-2010.
January 20, 2010
Personhood State Constitutional Amendment Re-introduced in Maryland Legislature
Maryland is one of 16 States which have had Personhood Legislation filed in 2009-2010.
February 17, 2010
Personhood Amendment Certified for Colorado Ballot for November 2010
Colorado Secretary of State has certified the Personhood Amendment, called Amendment 62
March 26, 2010
Mississippi Personhood Amendment Officially on 2011 Ballot
Mississippi Secretary of State gives notice of sufficient certified voter signatures to be on 2011 Ballot
April 1, 2010
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