Call to Action

As we approach the year two thousand and ten, we approach the year of the Personhood Amendment. With activity in 32 states, at least one is likely to pass, but fight vigorously anyway to make sure.

But don't let this very important issue mak e you loose track of the bigger picture. Fight for the unborn, yes, but also fight for the poor, the young, the old, the gay, women, et cetera. Fight for free speech, freedom of religion, for the separation of church and state, for school reform, for a more reasonable language (Esperanto), for a more reasonable numeral system (dozenal), and for logical arguments.

Fight against euphemisms, restrictions on freedom, and unequal treatment.

Socialist Stupidity? Say it ain't so!

Zygotes are not eggs, and I clarified this in my first post, but this is the first time I have ever seen an embryo or fetus called an "egg".

They then go on to commit the sperm fallacy and quote a stupid argument debunked a thousand times.

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Amendment XXVIII

This was pretty verbose, so I give you...

1. Within the United States, and any place subject to their jurisdiction, membership in the human species shall be deemed a necessary and sufficient qualification for the status of personhood.

2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Correction

The Personhood Movement is active in 32 states, not 37. Sorry.

Personhood Movement

Go here to find out how to protect human rights in your state. PersonhoodUSA may be a Christian organization, but personhood is a secular cause. Dr. King was a reverend. The abolitionists used religion in their arguments.

Twitter

PersonhoodUSA is going beyond its mission on Twitter and has become the illegitimate child of ALL and the Libertarian Party. I'll be giving them a talking to.

Thanks, ALL!

I've always seen the American Life League as the PETA of the anti-abortion movement, with their anti-sex agenda, but they actually saved me some trouble by fisking a video I'd been meaning to get to.

RotH Updates

Notice anything different? Restraint of the Heartless is now a Blue Ribbon Site. In addition, the momentum of the personhood movement has led me to reopen the poll on personhood amendments.

Personhood picks up strength!

I probably should've told you about these but there were just so many. Michigan, Colorado, Maryland, Georgia, Mississippi, and others are current in progress.

Prenatal Right[s]s[/s]

I've noticed that many personhood bills grant only the right to life to the unborn, and not full personhood. Why is this?

H.R. 227

A child dies from abortion 20 times more often than someone dies from lack of health care. More unborn children die every day than were killed on 9/11. 9/11 was a one-time occurrence, yet the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians were considered a fair trade for bringing the terrorists to justice. There's currently a lot of people working on health insurance reform. But the plight of the unborn is not even noticed!

Yet the Sanctity of Human Life Act has gone mostly unnoticed. We seriously need to get our priorities together before we try to democratize other nations.

ND Senate

It seems like the senators who voted against HB1572 agree with it in spirit.

Email 2

Here are the ND senators who did not vote for HB1572...

Arden C. Anderson <aranderson@nd.gov>, John M. Andrist <jandrist@nd.gov>, JoNell A. Bakke <jbakke@nd.gov>, Arthur H. Behm <abehm@nd.gov>,  Jim Dotzenrod <jdotzenrod@nd.gov>, Tom Fiebiger <tdfiebiger@nd.gov>, Tom Fischer <tfischer@nd.gov>, Tim Flakoll <tflakoll@nd.gov>, Tony S. Grindberg <tgrindberg@nd.gov>, Joan Heckaman <jheckaman@nd.gov>, Ray Holmberg <rholmberg@nd.gov>, Robert M. Horne <rhorne@nd.gov>, Aaron Krauter <akrauter@nd.gov>, Karen K. Krebsbach <kkrebsbach@nd.gov>, Judy Lee <jlee@nd.gov>, Elroy N. Lindaas <elindaas@nd.gov>, Stanley W. Lyson <slyson@nd.gov>, Tim Mathern <tmathern@nd.gov>, Dave Nething <dnething@nd.gov>, David O'Connell <doconnell@nd.gov>, Dave Oehlke <doehlke@nd.gov>, Curtis Olafson <colafson@nd.gov>, Jim Pomeroy <jpomeroy@nd.gov>, Tracy Potter <tpotter@nd.gov>, Mac Schneider <macschneider@nd.gov>, Tom Seymour <tseymour@nd.gov>, Ryan M. Taylor <rtaylor@nd.gov>, Constance Triplett <ctriplett@nd.gov>, John Warner <jwarner@nd.gov>

including those who were absent/didn't vote:

Richard Marcellais <rmarcellais@nd.gov>, Carolyn Nelson <cnelson@nd.gov>,

:(

ND HB1572 failed to pass the senate and was returned to the house. At least now we know who its opponents are!

Senate Vote 3

HB1572 has been placed on the senate calendar. Expect a vote any day now!!!

REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEE

HB 1572, as engrossed: Judiciary Committee (Sen. Nething, Chairman) recommends DO

NOT PASS (5 YEAS, 0 NAYS, 1 ABSENT AND NOT VOTING). Engrossed HB 1572

was placed on the Fourteenth order on the calendar.

Senate Vote 2

I learned the senate vote oon HB1572 should be some time next week.

Senate Vote

Does anyone know when the vote on HB1572 is? It was supposed to be 2 weeks ago.

Email

Here are the emails of the ND senators. Email them and express your support for the commonsense HB1572. I'm not including sample email because I want yours all to differ.

Arden C. Anderson <aranderson@nd.gov>, John M. Andrist <jandrist@nd.gov>, JoNell A. Bakke <jbakke@nd.gov>, Arthur H. Behm <abehm@nd.gov>, Bill Bowman <bbowman@nd.gov>, Randel Christmann <rchristmann@nd.gov>, Dwight Cook <dcook@nd.gov>, Dick Dever <ddever@nd.gov>, Jim Dotzenrod <jdotzenrod@nd.gov>, Robert S. Erbele <rerbele@nd.gov>, Tom Fiebiger <tdfiebiger@nd.gov>, Tom Fischer <tfischer@nd.gov>, Tim Flakoll <tflakoll@nd.gov>, Layton W. Freborg <lfreborg@nd.gov>, Tony S. Grindberg <tgrindberg@nd.gov>, Joan Heckaman <jheckaman@nd.gov>, David Hogue <dhogue@nd.gov>, Ray Holmberg <rholmberg@nd.gov>, Robert M. Horne <rhorne@nd.gov>, Ralph L. Kilzer <rkilzer@nd.gov>, Jerry Klein <jklein@nd.gov>, Aaron Krauter <akrauter@nd.gov>, Karen K. Krebsbach <kkrebsbach@nd.gov>, Gary A. Lee <galee@nd.gov>, Judy Lee <jlee@nd.gov>, Elroy N. Lindaas <elindaas@nd.gov>, Stanley W. Lyson <slyson@nd.gov>, Richard Marcellais <rmarcellais@nd.gov>, Tim Mathern <tmathern@nd.gov>, Joe Miller <joetmiller@nd.gov>, Carolyn Nelson <cnelson@nd.gov>, Dave Nething <dnething@nd.gov>, George Nodland <glnodland@nd.gov>, David O'Connell <doconnell@nd.gov>, Dave Oehlke <doehlke@nd.gov>, Curtis Olafson <colafson@nd.gov>, Jim Pomeroy <jpomeroy@nd.gov>, Tracy Potter <tpotter@nd.gov>, Larry J. Robinson <lrobinson@nd.gov>, Mac Schneider <macschneider@nd.gov>, Tom Seymour <tseymour@nd.gov>, Bob Stenehjem <bstenehjem@nd.gov>, Ryan M. Taylor <rtaylor@nd.gov>, Constance Triplett <ctriplett@nd.gov>, Terry M. Wanzek <tmwanzek@nd.gov>, Rich Wardner <rwardner@nd.gov>, John Warner <jwarner@nd.gov>

Montana's Personhood Bill

North Dakota will probably win, because Montana's populus have to vote on theirs too.

ndhb1572ftw

Expect a vote any day now...