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Need Help in Cincinatti and Cleveland
We have sent every church in Cincinnati a letter, urging them to help us gather signatures for the Ohio Personhood Amendment. Will you help us follow up with phone calls?
Contact us if you are willing to help in Cinci or Cleveland, where we have longer lists of churches to call.
If you would like to call the churches in your county, contact us and we will mail the churches in your city or county a letter first. " 40 Days for Life" is coming to Cleveland and Cinci, and nine other locations in Ohio. There will be 40 days of holding prayer vigils outside of abortion clinics. It starts on February 22nd. In Cincinnati, there will be a kickoff this Sunday at 3 pm at the Planned Parenthood clinic on Auburn Avenue. This would be a great place to go to get signatures and recruit people to help, and to join others in prayer for an end to the "Abortion Holocaust."
There are a lot of Christian concerts in Ohio this month, which are great places to gather signatures.
Feb. 17, Troy - Casting Crows/Matthew West/Royal Taylor Feb. 17, Westerville - Steven Curtis Chapman/Andrew Peterson/Josh Wilson Feb. 18, Columbus, Rick Santorum speaking (http://ohioca.org/) Feb. 18, Cincinatti - Matt Maher Feb. 19, Olmsted Falls - Steven Curtis Chapman/ Andrew Peterson/Josh Wilson Feb. 25, Canton - Michael W. Smith Feb. 26, Dayton - Michael W. Smith |
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Personhood Ohio
P.O. Box 126
Dresden, OH 43821
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Give Today to Personhood Ohio!
Personhood Ohio offers the best chance for saving the 25,000 thousand little boys and girls who are aborted every year in Ohio. We can stop the killing this year! No babies need die in 2013. But we need your help!
Have you signed the petition? Have you gathered signatures in your church? Print out the petition and help us. There's a video at the bottom of that page that will help show you how to gather signatures.
We have tens of thousands of names and addresses of Ohio churches and Ohio pro-lifers, but we need donations to be able to print and mail them letters informing them of the Ohio Personhood Amendment.
We want to run ads on Christian radio, and make announcements at large Christian concerts in Ohio. These are expensive, but effective venues for our message. Will you help us with these projects?
We want to offer a prize to whoever can gather the most signatures in a given month. Could you donate a used car, a Bed, Bath, & Beyond gift certificate, a pair of OSU tickets, a four-wheeler, a rifle, concerts tickets, a $500 Wal-Mart gift card, or something similar to motivate signature-gatherers? Be creative! Such an in-kind donation could be considered a tax-deductible business expense given in exchange for the advertisement we'd offer on our website and our facebook page.
One of the most important things you could give us would be just one minute of prayer - just one minute! Read this prayer, and if you will, please pray this fervently with us:
"Lord, help us protect every child under Ohio law. Help us get the signatures we need to put the Ohio Personhood Amendment on the ballot this year. Nothing is too difficult for You, Oh God. Derail the abortion industry's attempt to keep this Amendment off the ballot by suing Personhood Ohio and its leaders in the Ohio Supreme Court. We know from your Word that it is not Your will that one of these children should perish. Help us protect these children made in your image. Let Ohio be the first state in the nation to protect every single child. Give us liberty and justice for all here. We need a miracle, God, but believe that You can do it. In Jesus' name. Amen."
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What About Ectopic Pregnancies?
Abortion advocates have argued that the Ohio Personhood Amendment would criminalize the treatment for ectopic pregnancies. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The American Assn. of Pro-Life Ob/Gyns has written a helpful evaluation of the therapy for ectopic pregnancies from a pro-life perspective.
I have authored the tract on the Assn. of Pro-Life Physicians website entitled "Are There Rare Cases When an Abortion Is Justfied" which addresses the Hippocratic ethic in the context of ectopic pregnancies.
When abortion was illegal, there has never, to my knowledge, been a case where therapy for an ectopic pregnancy that resulted in the death of the baby resulted in the prosecution of the physician. Never. So why do abortion advocates think that banning abortion will outlaw therapy for ectopic pregnancies?
The death of some patients in medical care is unfortunate but inevitable, but such deaths are not prosecutable as long as there was no intentional malice. Therapy for life-threatening problems with the mother's health may result in the inadvertent death of even a wanted child, but as long as the physician did his best to care for both patients, he has done no wrong. |
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Does Ohio Right to Life
Really Believe that Ohio Should Submit Unto Judicial Tyranny?
Personhood Ohio wants to protect every preborn Ohioan under state law.
"It's not time," Ohio Right to Life insists. Why not? Because "it would not stand up to a Supreme Court challenge." "Personhood Amendment Likely Won't Ban Abortion" says Steve Ertelt, editor of LifeNews.com. Why? Because he thinks that states have a duty to submit to the Supreme Court, even when their decision is immoral and unconstitutional.
If the Supreme Court would demand us to kill every child after our first (like China's forced abortion policy), would Mr. Ertelt believe that we have an obligation to submit unto that? If Ohioans have the choice between godly and constitutional state law versus godless, unconstitutional federal lawlessness, should we turn our backs on God and the Constitution and kiss the devil's cheek? With Ohio Right to Life and Mr. Ertelt's argument, we should all take "the Mark of the Beast" if the Supreme Court demands it. When pro-life leaders believe that we have a duty to submit to lawless decisions that violate God's law and the Constitution, in a metorphical sense, they already have.
The Supreme Court is not God, and we should stop treating them like God. There is one Creator, one Supreme Lawgiver and one Supreme Chief Justice, and He commands Ohio "Do no murder." Moreover, He orders Ohio's leaders to protect the innocent with justice (Rom.13:3-4). To avert certain judgment (Ps.2; Jer.18), Ohio'd best obey God, even if we must defy immoral and unconstitutional tyranny in order to do so. Woe to us if we don't. |
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