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Re: Late Term Abortion Law
By: patrick jane Date: October 14, 2020, 9:41 am
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Re: Late Term Abortion Law
By: patrick jane Date: October 27, 2020, 10:35 am
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Ousted by Party, Former Democrat Holds to Pro-Life Platform in
Tennessee
Longtime state legislator and Memphis pastor John DeBerry is now
running as an Independent.
Editor’s note: This profile is the fourth in a CT series
featuring Christian candidates who are running for legislative
office in November.
John DeBerry insists he is not the one who changed; the
Tennessee Democratic Party did.
The 69-year-old politician and Church of Christ pastor has
represented part of Memphis in the state House of
Representatives since 1994. But this year, after 13 consecutive
victories in Tennessee’s 90th District, DeBerry was removed from
the ballot and prohibited from running for reelection as a
Democrat.
The Tennessee Democratic Party chair said DeBerry, who has voted
according to his pro-life stance on abortion as well as in favor
of school choice, “demonstrated more loyalty to the Republican
Party than to the Democratic Party.”
DeBerry insists his voters have always known where he stood on
abortion and other social issues; they sent him to Nashville
again and again. “Life has mattered my entire career,” he told
Christianity Today. “My principles have not changed, and I am
not changing my principles because I have a D behind my name.”
DeBerry’s fight to stay in the race in Tennessee is an example
of the precarious political position a dwindling number of
pro-life Democratic politicians find themselves in. But DeBerry
wants to remain in the party because, knowing his constituents,
he believes he’s not alone; he says they too are Christian
Democrats who stand for life.
DeBerry has been a Democrat since 1968 when he voted in his
first presidential election. His parents were Democrats, but his
grandparents had been Eisenhower Republicans. It was Christian
leaders taking a stand during the civil rights movement—former
president Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ralph
Abernathy—that first spurred his own interest in politics.
DeBerry, who is also a pastor at Coleman Avenue Church of Christ
in Memphis, sees faith as the foundation for his career in
public service and how he thinks through policy issues.
He says you cannot fight for what is right based on political
labels, but most rely on deeper convictions. “Fashion changes,
style changes, laws change, but principles which are built on
the Word of God don't change,” he said.
DeBerry believes abortion violates both God’s laws and the
American principle that all persons have constitutional rights
not based on their place of residency—those rights extend to
those residing in the womb too.
The Tennessee politician, now running as an Independent, blames
state party officials for taking a fundamentally undemocratic
action to remove him from the ballot. He was already on the
ballot when the party announced their decision, and a few of his
colleagues spoke out on his behalf. House Minority Leader Karen
Camper, a fellow Memphis Democrat, called the party’s actions
“[an attempt] to nullify the choice of the people of the 90th
District.”
DeBerry’s conservative positions may have frustrated some of his
pro-choice colleagues, but they respect his leadership. They
voted for him to serve as minority leader pro tempore for the
entire Democratic Caucus. Legislators also passed a bipartisan
bill to amend the Tennessee election code, allowing incumbents
disqualified by their party’s executive committee, like DeBerry,
to file a new petition under a different party identification
past the standard filing deadline.
DeBerry has chosen to run as an Independent. On November 3, he
will face progressive Democrat Torrey Harris, who would be both
the youngest and the first openly gay member of the Tennessee
House. When asked why he did not simply run as a Republican,
DeBerry stated, “If I wanted to run as a Republican, I could
have, but the majority of the district consists of Christian
Democrats who share my pro-life views.”
According to Pew Research, young black Protestants have become
less rigid in their opposition to abortion than previous
generations, in part because they are more likely to view racial
justice for those who are born as paramount. Yet DeBerry’s
assertion that the majority of the black Democrats in his
district share his views is borne out by the fact that he has
beat out liberal African Americans in primary races twice since
his district was redrawn in 2012, including Harris, his current
Democratic opponent.
DeBerry is among state legislative candidates in ten states who
received endorsements from Democrats for Life of America in
2020; the group endorsed just a single candidate for US
Congress—Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota—this year.
Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life, believes
that “you do not have to be a Republican to care about life,”
and as the party of the vulnerable and marginalized, the
Democratic Party should take a stand for the unborn. Or at least
not exclude politicians for doing so.
Day has pushed for an “inclusive, ‘big tent’ party” that doesn’t
rely on abortion rights as the foundation of its platform and
wouldn’t target pro-life Democrats like DeBerry. On a national
level, US Rep. Dan Lipinski, a pro-life Democrat who served
Illinois’s 3rd District for 15 years, lost his primary earlier
this year to a pro-choice challenger who rallied more funding
and support.
DeBerry likewise believes that the issue of abortion isn’t as
starkly partisan as the “party elites” presume. According to a
2019 Gallup Poll on abortion, 24 percent of Democratic voters
and 44 percent of Independent voters identify as pro-life. He
says Democrats should not exclude that sizeable minority—many of
them, like him, are religious people whose faith leads them to
oppose abortion.
In evangelical denominations like DeBerry’s Churches of Christ,
the Southern Baptist Convention, and Assemblies of God, as well
as the historically black Church of God in Christ denomination,
most say abortion should be illegal in all or most
circumstances, per a Pew Research Center survey.
DeBerry cites one of his favorite verses, Matthew 22:21, “Render
therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto
God the things that are God’s” (KJV), as part of his reasoning
for his stance. For DeBerry, only God decides life and death.
DeBerry is unsure whether he will caucus as a Democrat or
Republican should the 90th District residents send him back to
Nashville as an Independent. But he pledges, no matter what side
he’s on, to always place principles over party and personality.
Kathryn Freeman is an attorney and former director of public
policy for the Texas Baptists’ Christian Life Commission.
Currently, she is a master of divinity student at Baylor
University’s Truett Seminary and one-half of the podcast
Melanated Faith.
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Re: Late Term Abortion Law
By: guest8 Date: October 27, 2020, 7:53 pm
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[quote author=patrick jane link=topic=325.msg19634#msg19634
date=1603812906]
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Ousted by Party, Former Democrat Holds to Pro-Life Platform in
Tennessee
Longtime state legislator and Memphis pastor John DeBerry is now
running as an Independent.
Editor’s note: This profile is the fourth in a CT series
featuring Christian candidates who are running for legislative
office in November.
John DeBerry insists he is not the one who changed; the
Tennessee Democratic Party did.
The 69-year-old politician and Church of Christ pastor has
represented part of Memphis in the state House of
Representatives since 1994. But this year, after 13 consecutive
victories in Tennessee’s 90th District, DeBerry was removed from
the ballot and prohibited from running for reelection as a
Democrat.
The Tennessee Democratic Party chair said DeBerry, who has voted
according to his pro-life stance on abortion as well as in favor
of school choice, “demonstrated more loyalty to the Republican
Party than to the Democratic Party.”
DeBerry insists his voters have always known where he stood on
abortion and other social issues; they sent him to Nashville
again and again. “Life has mattered my entire career,” he told
Christianity Today. “My principles have not changed, and I am
not changing my principles because I have a D behind my name.”
DeBerry’s fight to stay in the race in Tennessee is an example
of the precarious political position a dwindling number of
pro-life Democratic politicians find themselves in. But DeBerry
wants to remain in the party because, knowing his constituents,
he believes he’s not alone; he says they too are Christian
Democrats who stand for life.
DeBerry has been a Democrat since 1968 when he voted in his
first presidential election. His parents were Democrats, but his
grandparents had been Eisenhower Republicans. It was Christian
leaders taking a stand during the civil rights movement—former
president Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ralph
Abernathy—that first spurred his own interest in politics.
DeBerry, who is also a pastor at Coleman Avenue Church of Christ
in Memphis, sees faith as the foundation for his career in
public service and how he thinks through policy issues.
He says you cannot fight for what is right based on political
labels, but most rely on deeper convictions. “Fashion changes,
style changes, laws change, but principles which are built on
the Word of God don't change,” he said.
DeBerry believes abortion violates both God’s laws and the
American principle that all persons have constitutional rights
not based on their place of residency—those rights extend to
those residing in the womb too.
The Tennessee politician, now running as an Independent, blames
state party officials for taking a fundamentally undemocratic
action to remove him from the ballot. He was already on the
ballot when the party announced their decision, and a few of his
colleagues spoke out on his behalf. House Minority Leader Karen
Camper, a fellow Memphis Democrat, called the party’s actions
“[an attempt] to nullify the choice of the people of the 90th
District.”
DeBerry’s conservative positions may have frustrated some of his
pro-choice colleagues, but they respect his leadership. They
voted for him to serve as minority leader pro tempore for the
entire Democratic Caucus. Legislators also passed a bipartisan
bill to amend the Tennessee election code, allowing incumbents
disqualified by their party’s executive committee, like DeBerry,
to file a new petition under a different party identification
past the standard filing deadline.
DeBerry has chosen to run as an Independent. On November 3, he
will face progressive Democrat Torrey Harris, who would be both
the youngest and the first openly gay member of the Tennessee
House. When asked why he did not simply run as a Republican,
DeBerry stated, “If I wanted to run as a Republican, I could
have, but the majority of the district consists of Christian
Democrats who share my pro-life views.”
According to Pew Research, young black Protestants have become
less rigid in their opposition to abortion than previous
generations, in part because they are more likely to view racial
justice for those who are born as paramount. Yet DeBerry’s
assertion that the majority of the black Democrats in his
district share his views is borne out by the fact that he has
beat out liberal African Americans in primary races twice since
his district was redrawn in 2012, including Harris, his current
Democratic opponent.
DeBerry is among state legislative candidates in ten states who
received endorsements from Democrats for Life of America in
2020; the group endorsed just a single candidate for US
Congress—Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota—this year.
Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life, believes
that “you do not have to be a Republican to care about life,”
and as the party of the vulnerable and marginalized, the
Democratic Party should take a stand for the unborn. Or at least
not exclude politicians for doing so.
Day has pushed for an “inclusive, ‘big tent’ party” that doesn’t
rely on abortion rights as the foundation of its platform and
wouldn’t target pro-life Democrats like DeBerry. On a national
level, US Rep. Dan Lipinski, a pro-life Democrat who served
Illinois’s 3rd District for 15 years, lost his primary earlier
this year to a pro-choice challenger who rallied more funding
and support.
DeBerry likewise believes that the issue of abortion isn’t as
starkly partisan as the “party elites” presume. According to a
2019 Gallup Poll on abortion, 24 percent of Democratic voters
and 44 percent of Independent voters identify as pro-life. He
says Democrats should not exclude that sizeable minority—many of
them, like him, are religious people whose faith leads them to
oppose abortion.
In evangelical denominations like DeBerry’s Churches of Christ,
the Southern Baptist Convention, and Assemblies of God, as well
as the historically black Church of God in Christ denomination,
most say abortion should be illegal in all or most
circumstances, per a Pew Research Center survey.
DeBerry cites one of his favorite verses, Matthew 22:21, “Render
therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto
God the things that are God’s” (KJV), as part of his reasoning
for his stance. For DeBerry, only God decides life and death.
DeBerry is unsure whether he will caucus as a Democrat or
Republican should the 90th District residents send him back to
Nashville as an Independent. But he pledges, no matter what side
he’s on, to always place principles over party and personality.
Kathryn Freeman is an attorney and former director of public
policy for the Texas Baptists’ Christian Life Commission.
Currently, she is a master of divinity student at Baylor
University’s Truett Seminary and one-half of the podcast
Melanated Faith.
[/quote]
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Re: Late Term Abortion Law
By: guest17 Date: December 10, 2020, 8:55 am
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Ben Shapiro Obliterates Every Pro-Abortion Argument (Send This
To Your Pro-Choice Friends)
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Re: Late Term Abortion Law
By: guest17 Date: December 22, 2020, 6:43 pm
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Vatican permits use of COVID-19 vaccines made using aborted
fetal tissue
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican told Roman Catholics on
Monday that it was morally acceptable to use COVID-19 vaccines
even if their production employed cell lines drawn from tissues
of aborted foetuses.
A note from the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation, the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the use of such
vaccines was permitted as long as there were no alternatives.
Both the Pfizer Inc and Moderna Inc vaccines have some
connection to cell lines that originated with tissue from
abortions in the last century, according to the U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which issued a separate note to
American Catholics last week.
The Vatican note said the granting of moral legitimacy was
related to the principle “differing degrees of responsibility of
cooperation in evil.”
story continues....
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The Vatican has announced that it is “morally acceptable” for
Roman Catholics to get vaccinated against Covid-19 after
anti-abortion groups raised concerns citing the origin of the
vaccine from aborted fetuses.
story continues....
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Re: Late Term Abortion Law
By: patrick jane Date: January 20, 2021, 8:47 am
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March for Life Plans Disrupted by DC Security Concerns
The annual event is asking participants to “stay home” for the
first time since Roe v. Wade.
The National March for Life, the biggest pro-life rally in the
country, has asked hundreds of thousands of supporters to stay
home for the January 29 event, citing the pandemic and security
concerns around the Capitol.
It’s the first January since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that
pro-lifers won’t be gathering in DC to march to the Supreme
Court to signal their opposition to abortion. In 2016, the march
went on despite DC shutting down before a blizzard that brought
nearly two feet of snow.
March for Life organizers shared the change in plans on Friday,
inviting participants to a virtual event instead. The National
Park Service had announced that the National Mall will be closed
through at least January 21, the day after the inauguration, and
DC is also under a state of emergency until then.
“The protection of all of those who participate in the annual
March, as well as the many law enforcement personnel and others
who work tirelessly each year to ensure a safe and peaceful
event, is a top priority of the March for Life,” said March for
Life president Jeanne Mancini.
While Catholics traditionally took the lead in organizing and
attending the rally, the Protestant cohort has grown over the
years, including the addition of a corresponding Evangelicals
for Life conference five years ago. This year’s speaker lineup
included prominent evangelical leaders Jim Daly, Focus on the
Family president, and J. D. Greear, the first Southern Baptist
president to address the event.
Organizers plan to have a small group of Christian leaders still
march in-person to represent the larger group that typically
descends on DC for the march, Mancini’s announcement said. As of
Friday, Daly was still planning on attending the event in
person, according to a Focus on the Family spokesperson. Tim
Tebow is scheduled to offer a keynote at a virtual gala
following the march.
Attendance was already expected to be down at the event due to
the coronavirus. Organizers had planned to require face masks,
display signs about social distancing, and urge those with
symptoms not to come.
Some state and local marches—including in Arkansas, Hawaii, and
Oregon—recently opted to cancel or postpone this year’s
in-person gatherings due to “political unrest and the continuing
COVID-19 pandemic.”
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Re: Late Term Abortion Law
By: guest17 Date: April 20, 2021, 11:00 am
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Planned Parenthood Can’t Disavow Margaret Sanger
National Review
Alexandra DeSanctis 23 hrs ago
Though abortion-rights proponents recently have advanced the
historically illiterate argument that the pro-life movement is
rooted in white supremacy, the truth is quite the opposite.
White supremacists have long supported legal abortion, because
they recognize and applaud that nonwhite women are
disproportionately more likely to obtain abortions than are
white women.
Over the weekend, the president of Planned Parenthood, Alexis
McGill Johnson, wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times,
formally criticizing her institution’s infamous founder,
Margaret Sanger.
The article’s title announced, “We’re Done Making Excuses for
Our Founder,” and the subheading indicated that the group is
ready to “reckon with Margaret Sanger’s association with white
supremacist groups and eugenics.”
Planned Parenthood is remarkably late to acknowledge what the
rest of us have been saying for quite some time: Sanger was a
foremost proponent of the eugenics movement in the U.S.,
motivated especially by her particular animus toward poor
nonwhites. Her crusade to legalize birth control was motivated
in large part by her desire to prevent the “unfit” and
“feeble-minded” from reproducing.
Sanger’s goal was not primarily to liberate American women by
legalizing birth control; rather, it was “to make the coming
generation into such physically fit, mentally capable, socially
alert individuals as are the ideal of a democracy.”
The sudden effort to disentangle Planned Parenthood from its
founder’s role in the racially motivated eugenics movement of
the 20th century is too little, too late, even by the Left’s own
standards. Last July, amidst racial tension and riots across the
country, Planned Parenthood’s affiliate in New York City removed
Sanger’s name from its flagship clinic, labeling her “a racist,
white woman” and accusing the organization of “institutional
racism.”
Yet the national organization didn’t say a word about it. Now,
almost a year later, the group’s leadership has finally managed
to workshop a careful way of attempting to guard its legacy
while disavowing its founder.
“We have defended Sanger as a protector of bodily autonomy and
self-determination, while excusing her association with white
supremacist groups and eugenics as an unfortunate ‘product of
her time,’” Johnson writes.
Nearly 80 percent of Planned Parenthood’s clinics are located
within walking distance of neighborhoods occupied predominantly
by black and Hispanic residents. Despite constituting only 13
percent of the female population, black women represent more
than one-third of all abortions in the U.S. each year. Black
women are five times more likely than white women to obtain an
abortion, and abortions are highly concentrated among low-income
women. In recent years in New York City, more black babies were
aborted than were born alive.
Contrary to what abortion advocates suggest, it is not
privileged white progressives who most often avail themselves of
the right to abortion. Defenders of legal abortion refuse to
acknowledge this inconvenient reality, even as they insist that
choosing abortion is a sign of women’s liberation and social
progress.
Though abortion-rights proponents recently have advanced the
historically illiterate argument that the pro-life movement is
rooted in white supremacy, the truth is quite the opposite.
White supremacists have long supported legal abortion, because
they recognize and applaud that nonwhite women are
disproportionately more likely to obtain abortions than are
white women.
For instance, Richard Spencer, a leading white supremacist, is
highly supportive of legalized abortion, because “the people who
are having abortions are generally very often black or Hispanic
or from very poor circumstances.” As he puts it, abortion is a
good thing because “the unintelligent and blacks and Hispanics .
. . use abortion as birth control.”
Defending unlimited legal abortion while maintaining one’s
progressive bona fides requires erasing this reality, which is
why Johnson’s Times op-ed ignores the way in which Planned
Parenthood’s bottom line profits from minority women who feel as
if they have no option other than abortion.
“We are committed to confronting any white supremacy in our own
organization, and across the movement for reproductive freedom,”
Johnson wrote.
She could start by acknowledging the way that the abortion
industry and her own organization profit by perpetuating
Margaret Sanger’s racist legacy.
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Re: Late Term Abortion Law
By: guest8 Date: April 20, 2021, 8:53 pm
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date=1618934444]
Planned Parenthood Can’t Disavow Margaret Sanger
National Review
Alexandra DeSanctis 23 hrs ago
Though abortion-rights proponents recently have advanced the
historically illiterate argument that the pro-life movement is
rooted in white supremacy, the truth is quite the opposite.
White supremacists have long supported legal abortion, because
they recognize and applaud that nonwhite women are
disproportionately more likely to obtain abortions than are
white women.
Over the weekend, the president of Planned Parenthood, Alexis
McGill Johnson, wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times,
formally criticizing her institution’s infamous founder,
Margaret Sanger.
The article’s title announced, “We’re Done Making Excuses for
Our Founder,” and the subheading indicated that the group is
ready to “reckon with Margaret Sanger’s association with white
supremacist groups and eugenics.”
Planned Parenthood is remarkably late to acknowledge what the
rest of us have been saying for quite some time: Sanger was a
foremost proponent of the eugenics movement in the U.S.,
motivated especially by her particular animus toward poor
nonwhites. Her crusade to legalize birth control was motivated
in large part by her desire to prevent the “unfit” and
“feeble-minded” from reproducing.
Sanger’s goal was not primarily to liberate American women by
legalizing birth control; rather, it was “to make the coming
generation into such physically fit, mentally capable, socially
alert individuals as are the ideal of a democracy.”
The sudden effort to disentangle Planned Parenthood from its
founder’s role in the racially motivated eugenics movement of
the 20th century is too little, too late, even by the Left’s own
standards. Last July, amidst racial tension and riots across the
country, Planned Parenthood’s affiliate in New York City removed
Sanger’s name from its flagship clinic, labeling her “a racist,
white woman” and accusing the organization of “institutional
racism.”
Yet the national organization didn’t say a word about it. Now,
almost a year later, the group’s leadership has finally managed
to workshop a careful way of attempting to guard its legacy
while disavowing its founder.
“We have defended Sanger as a protector of bodily autonomy and
self-determination, while excusing her association with white
supremacist groups and eugenics as an unfortunate ‘product of
her time,’” Johnson writes.
Nearly 80 percent of Planned Parenthood’s clinics are located
within walking distance of neighborhoods occupied predominantly
by black and Hispanic residents. Despite constituting only 13
percent of the female population, black women represent more
than one-third of all abortions in the U.S. each year. Black
women are five times more likely than white women to obtain an
abortion, and abortions are highly concentrated among low-income
women. In recent years in New York City, more black babies were
aborted than were born alive.
Contrary to what abortion advocates suggest, it is not
privileged white progressives who most often avail themselves of
the right to abortion. Defenders of legal abortion refuse to
acknowledge this inconvenient reality, even as they insist that
choosing abortion is a sign of women’s liberation and social
progress.
Though abortion-rights proponents recently have advanced the
historically illiterate argument that the pro-life movement is
rooted in white supremacy, the truth is quite the opposite.
White supremacists have long supported legal abortion, because
they recognize and applaud that nonwhite women are
disproportionately more likely to obtain abortions than are
white women.
For instance, Richard Spencer, a leading white supremacist, is
highly supportive of legalized abortion, because “the people who
are having abortions are generally very often black or Hispanic
or from very poor circumstances.” As he puts it, abortion is a
good thing because “the unintelligent and blacks and Hispanics .
. . use abortion as birth control.”
Defending unlimited legal abortion while maintaining one’s
progressive bona fides requires erasing this reality, which is
why Johnson’s Times op-ed ignores the way in which Planned
Parenthood’s bottom line profits from minority women who feel as
if they have no option other than abortion.
“We are committed to confronting any white supremacy in our own
organization, and across the movement for reproductive freedom,”
Johnson wrote.
She could start by acknowledging the way that the abortion
industry and her own organization profit by perpetuating
Margaret Sanger’s racist legacy.
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good article truthjourney
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Pro-Life Advocates Push Local Resolutions
Tired of failures at the ballot box and in courts, some turn to
community declarations.
Ryan Sullivan didn’t give much thought to his pro-life position
as a Christian beyond voting for pro-life politicians. Then he
studied Exodus 21:22–24, where God prescribed the death penalty
for any Israelite who assaulted a woman and caused her to
miscarry.
“In that Scripture, the life inside the womb is treated with the
exact same value as the life outside the womb,” said the pastor
of Grace Community Church in Jackson, Mississippi. “Once I
started thinking that way, I noticed that so much of the world
around me—and even the Christian world around me—almost thinks
of this abortion issue as merely a political one.”
The realization led Sullivan to embrace a new pro-life strategy:
pushing local governments to declare themselves “safe” for the
unborn. Members of Grace played key roles in establishing
several safe cities in Mississippi. To date, 11 cities and two
counties in Mississippi, North Carolina, and Alabama have done
the same.
According to Les Riley, president of the pro-life Personhood
Alliance, the Safe Cities and Counties Initiative shifts the
strategic focus from federal-level efforts to overturn Roe v.
Wade to local arenas.
Since 1973, the pro-life movement has “built huge organizations,
raised millions of dollars, elected pro-life politicians and
pro-life majorities, and, at the federal, state, and local
levels, we’ve had control of the courts,” Riley said, “yet tens
of millions of children are dead.”
The Personhood Alliance decided in 2018 it was time for another
approach and started pushing for cities and counties to pass
resolutions saying they are safe for the unborn. Other
grassroots groups, such as Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn, have
advocated ordinances outlawing abortion, to provoke lawsuits
that send the question of abortion’s legality back to the
courts. Resolutions, on the other hand, are not laws. They send
a message that local communities, through their elected
officials, “recognize and declare the humanity of the preborn
child.”
The resolution template provided by the Personhood Alliance
“urges the citizens” in a safe city or county “to encourage the
humane treatment of all human beings, including the preborn
child, as well as to promote and defend the dignity of all human
life.”
A more localized movement made sense to Sullivan: “Why is the
state of Mississippi waiting around for a Supreme Court decision
to change?”
After connecting with Riley, Sullivan scheduled a meeting with
the mayor and several aldermen in Pearl, Mississippi, where he
lives. He wasn’t sure how they would respond, but they embraced
the idea of a resolution. On October 1, 2019, Pearl became the
first “safe city” in Mississippi.
The success inspired one member of Sullivan’s congregation.
Christy Wright, a 28-year-old accountant from Crystal Springs,
Mississippi, went to the mayor of her hometown and told her
about the resolution. In April 2020, Crystal Springs declared
itself a safe city for the unborn too. “We all don’t have to do
the same thing, but we all have to do something,” Wright said.
“If you see a need, meet a need.”
According to the Safe Cities and Counties Initiative, this is
the second phase of the plan, after passing local resolutions:
The pro-life group wants to activate communities.
Gualberto Garcia Jones, legal counsel and former president of
Personhood Alliance, said citizens “take ownership” in Phase 2,
which involves educating people and working to create
communities that value human life inside and outside the womb.
Most communities aren’t ready to outlaw abortion, he said.
“We realized even well-meaning, good-intentioned people have a
lot of questions about this and they have a lot of concerns,”
Jones said. “You really want to convince your community first
that the protection of preborn life with equal protection is a
true and good principle they want to invest in.”
The Personhood Alliance argues that the 14th Amendment, passed
during Reconstruction to guarantee the rights of citizenship to
Black Americans, should disallow legal abortions. The amendment
says that no state can “deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The unborn
should be protected because they are people.
Jones and others pushed for federal legislation to declare that
the unborn have the legal rights of personhood in 2004, with
little success. They then worked on ballot initiatives in
multiple states, including Colorado and Mississippi, but
couldn’t win enough votes to change the state constitutions.
In 2014, he and others in the Personhood Alliance decided to
focus on “the most local level possible.”
“We’re not reinventing the wheel. The opposite,” he said. “We’re
creating a new roadmap.”
So far, no major pro-life organizations have thrown their
support behind this new strategy. There is little appetite for
inner-movement quarreling, however, so pro-life groups working
on state or federal legislation or potential Supreme Court
appointments also haven’t directly criticized resolutions or
sanctuary-city ordinances.
But pro-life activists see, at the least, limitations to a
local-resolutions approach to ending abortion.
Chelsea Patterson Sobolik, policy director at the Southern
Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission,
said a “very obvious challenge” is the reality that the Supreme
Court legalized abortion across the nation and only some towns
in some regions are passing pro-life resolutions.
“It’s not going to be able to happen all over the country,” she
said. “So I think that’s why we need all the players at the
table, and we need folks in DC working on federal policy. We
need state legislatures and folks doing advocacy on a
state-based level to ensure that babies are protected all over
the country.”
Supporters of the Safe Cities and Counties Initiative say its
local focus is important, though, for tackling problems that
can’t be dealt with at the state or federal level. For example,
Keith Pavlansky, president of Personhood North Carolina and a
pastor in Yadkin County, said personhood is fundamentally a
“philosophical question” that the local church must be equipped
to answer.
“It predates Roe v. Wade,” he said. “The question of when
somebody is, or what makes somebody a person, is something that
has been asked and answered incorrectly a number of times
through human history and, sadly, in the United States of
America. We’ve had times like our bout with slavery where the
personhood of an entire population was in question based on skin
color, which is completely outrageous. It’s not scientific, yet
it was the law of the land.”
Sarah Quale, president of Personhood Alliance Education, said
she’s passionate about the initiative because it centers
pro-life activism in the lives of individual Christians.
“It has to start with us individually, and that means personal
repentance,” she said. “We have to focus on being consistent in
our own homes, in our marriages, and in our parental
responsibilities...that extends to the culture and engaging in
relational charity in our own backyard.”
In the past several years, Sullivan has seen that focus shape
the culture of Grace Community Church. While several members go
to the local abortion clinic every week to pray and ask mothers
to consider visiting a local pregnancy clinic, a pharmacist at
the church has chosen to only work in places that do not
dispense birth control that has the potential to prevent the
implantation of a fertilized egg. Others are finding ways to
support mothers who’ve decided against abortion, and some are
taking care of children.
“It’s just a culture of adopting and fostering children,”
Sullivan said. “I praise the Lord for that. I think that’s the
Holy Spirit helping people to live out their faith.”
Lanie Anderson is a writer and seminary student in Oxford,
Mississippi.
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