Letter from United States Senator Rand Paul
Dear friends,
For 46 years, nine unelected men and women on the Supreme Court have played God with innocent human life.
They have invented laws that condemned to painful deaths without trial more than 62 million babies for the crime of being “inconvenient.”
In 1973, the U. S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling forced abortion-on-demand down our nation’s throat.
In the past, many in the pro-life movement have felt limited to protecting a life here and there—passing some limited law to slightly control abortion in the more outrageous cases.
But some pro-lifers always seem to tiptoe around the Supreme Court, hoping they won’t be offended.
Now is the time to grovel before the Supreme Court is over.
Working from what the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade, pro-life lawmakers can pass a Life at Conception Act and end abortion using the Constitution instead of amending it.
That is why it’s so urgent you sign and return the enclosed personalized petitions to your Senators and Congressman.
Thanks to the results of the last election, you and I are in a better than ever position to force an up or down roll call vote on the Life at Conception Act.
So, it is vital every Member of Congress be put on record.
A Life at Conception Act declares unborn children “persons” as defined by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, are entitled to legal protection.
This is the one thing the Supreme Court admitted in Roe v. Wade that would cause the case for legal abortion to “collapse.”
When the Supreme Court handed down its now-infamous Roe v. Wade decision, it did so based on a new, previously undefined “right of privacy” which it “discovered” in so-called “emanations” of “penumbrae” of the Constitution.
Of course, as constitutional law it was a disaster.
But never once did the Supreme Court declare abortion itself to be a constitutional right.
Instead the Supreme Court said:
“We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins . . . the judiciary at this point in the development of man’s knowledge is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.”
The High Court made a key admission:
“If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case [i. e., “Roe” who sought an abortion], of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
The fact is, the 14th Amendment couldn’t be clearer:
“. . . nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without the due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.”
Furthermore, the 14th Amendment says:
“Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
That’s exactly what a Life at Conception Act would do.
By this simple, logical and obviously right legislation will not become law without a fight.
And that’s where your help is critical.
By turning the heat through a massive, national, grassroots campaign in this Congress, one of two things will happen.
If you and other pro-life activists pour on enough pressure, pro-lifers can force politicians from both parties who were elected on pro-life platforms to make good on their promises and ultimately win passage of this bill.
But even if a Life at Conception Act doesn’t pass immediately, the public attention will send another crew of radical abortionists down to defeat in the next elections.
Either way, the unborn win . . . unless you do nothing.
That’s why the National Pro-Life Alliance is contacting hundreds of thousands of Americans like you to mobilize a grass-roots army to pass a Life at Conception Act.
The first thing you must do is send your petitions:
A sample copy of Citizen Petition to Overturn Roe v. Wade to your Senators and Congressman:
Whereas: Because of Roe v Wade, more than 1.5 million unborn babies die every year through abortion; and
Whereas: In Roe, the Supreme Court admitted that if personhood for the unborn is established, the case for abortion collapses since the fetus’s right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the Fourteenth Amendment. . . (Roe v. Wade [410 US 113 at 156-7]; and
Whereas: The American people oppose abortion-on-demand and want innocent human life to be protected, especially when it is most defenseless; and
Whereas: It belongs to Congress to resolve the question the Supreme Court said IT cannot resolve; and
Whereas: A Life at Conception Act, by declaring that unborn babies are persons legally entitled to constitutional protection, will rescue millions of unborn babies from dying by abortion-on-demand;
Therefore: I urge you to cosponsor, force a Senate and/or House vote and cast every vote for a Life at Conception Act, and to do everything necessary to win ultimate passage in the United States Senate and/or United States House of Representatives.
Signature _________________________City __________________ State ______________________
Last, First Name
Dear friends,
For 46 years, nine unelected men and women on the Supreme Court have played God with innocent human life.
They have invented laws that condemned to painful deaths without trial more than 62 million babies for the crime of being “inconvenient.”
In 1973, the U. S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling forced abortion-on-demand down our nation’s throat.
In the past, many in the pro-life movement have felt limited to protecting a life here and there—passing some limited law to slightly control abortion in the more outrageous cases.
But some pro-lifers always seem to tiptoe around the Supreme Court, hoping they won’t be offended.
Now is the time to grovel before the Supreme Court is over.
Working from what the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade, pro-life lawmakers can pass a Life at Conception Act and end abortion using the Constitution instead of amending it.
That is why it’s so urgent you sign and return the enclosed personalized petitions to your Senators and Congressman.
Thanks to the results of the last election, you and I are in a better than ever position to force an up or down roll call vote on the Life at Conception Act.
So, it is vital every Member of Congress be put on record.
A Life at Conception Act declares unborn children “persons” as defined by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, are entitled to legal protection.
This is the one thing the Supreme Court admitted in Roe v. Wade that would cause the case for legal abortion to “collapse.”
When the Supreme Court handed down its now-infamous Roe v. Wade decision, it did so based on a new, previously undefined “right of privacy” which it “discovered” in so-called “emanations” of “penumbrae” of the Constitution.
Of course, as constitutional law it was a disaster.
But never once did the Supreme Court declare abortion itself to be a constitutional right.
Instead the Supreme Court said:
“We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins . . . the judiciary at this point in the development of man’s knowledge is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.”
The High Court made a key admission:
“If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case [i. e., “Roe” who sought an abortion], of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment.”
The fact is, the 14th Amendment couldn’t be clearer:
“. . . nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without the due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.”
Furthermore, the 14th Amendment says:
“Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.”
That’s exactly what a Life at Conception Act would do.
By this simple, logical and obviously right legislation will not become law without a fight.
And that’s where your help is critical.
By turning the heat through a massive, national, grassroots campaign in this Congress, one of two things will happen.
If you and other pro-life activists pour on enough pressure, pro-lifers can force politicians from both parties who were elected on pro-life platforms to make good on their promises and ultimately win passage of this bill.
But even if a Life at Conception Act doesn’t pass immediately, the public attention will send another crew of radical abortionists down to defeat in the next elections.
Either way, the unborn win . . . unless you do nothing.
That’s why the National Pro-Life Alliance is contacting hundreds of thousands of Americans like you to mobilize a grass-roots army to pass a Life at Conception Act.
The first thing you must do is send your petitions:
A sample copy of Citizen Petition to Overturn Roe v. Wade to your Senators and Congressman:
Whereas: Because of Roe v Wade, more than 1.5 million unborn babies die every year through abortion; and
Whereas: In Roe, the Supreme Court admitted that if personhood for the unborn is established, the case for abortion collapses since the fetus’s right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the Fourteenth Amendment. . . (Roe v. Wade [410 US 113 at 156-7]; and
Whereas: The American people oppose abortion-on-demand and want innocent human life to be protected, especially when it is most defenseless; and
Whereas: It belongs to Congress to resolve the question the Supreme Court said IT cannot resolve; and
Whereas: A Life at Conception Act, by declaring that unborn babies are persons legally entitled to constitutional protection, will rescue millions of unborn babies from dying by abortion-on-demand;
Therefore: I urge you to cosponsor, force a Senate and/or House vote and cast every vote for a Life at Conception Act, and to do everything necessary to win ultimate passage in the United States Senate and/or United States House of Representatives.
Signature _________________________City __________________ State ______________________
Last, First Name