My solution to solve this issue for the people of Georgia is
to apply the two fundamental beliefs above. Place an amendment to
the Georgia Constitution on the November ballot and let the citizens
vote:
The proposed amendment would be:
Article I, Section I
Paragraph I. Life, liberty, and property.
No person, including the unborn, shall be
deprived of life, liberty, or property except by due process of
law.
My position on the proposed amendment is also stated in my
Basic Foundation and Beliefs in Government:
Unborn babies have a fundamental individual
right to be born which cannot be infringed.
Each and every one of us was an unborn baby at one time. Each
and every baby is created equal and possesses equal rights before
the law. In some cases the government has stepped in via federal
court decisions and determined that the government will determine
which babies have rights and which do not.
The Georgia Constitution should remove this ambiguity and
protect the rights of those who can not protect themselves. Each and
every one of us received that protection when we were unborn and
each and every unborn baby now and in the future deserves the same
protection of their rights.
American Liberty is based upon the recognition
of God given individual rights, not on rights as determined by a
government, whether it be federal, state or local. Today an unborn
baby which has committed no crime has less protection of their
rights and access to due process then a heinous murderer. This
amendment if passed on referendum would restore American Liberty for
the unborn which existed in our country through out most of its
history.
Our country was
founded as a Constitutional Republic of Republics. The Supreme Court
decision, Roe vs. Wade is just one of a long list of Supreme Court
decisions in this century and the mid to later portion of the 20th
century that are destroying the form of government we once had.
Due to the effects of the two party
system our country has politicized every aspect of our government
into two competing camps which value maintaining power over
American Liberty. Our Founding Fathers gave us the first form of
government ever to recognize God-given rights that were not
subject to government usurpation.
We are losing our Founding Principles
as each of our two major parties will ignore the Constitutional
protections of our rights when it will give them a political edge.
None other than George Washington in his Farewell Address warned
us about these potential excesses of political parties.
The Republicans claim to be
"Pro-Life" but in years of control of the federal government and
several years here in Georgia there has been no legislation passed
to establish Constitutional protection for the unborn. Instead
they focus a divisive fight over which form of Judicial Activism
will prevail. Nor has Congress passed legislation placing these
cases outside the jurisdiction of the federal courts - for which
it has Constitutional authority. Every one of the members of
Congress should be thrown out of office in their next election for
negligence of duty.
The truth is that neither major party
is "Pro-life" or "Anti-life" they are both "Pro-power."
The basis for my position above is
to take a step toward returning to our Founding Principles by
establishing in the Georgia Constitution, with a vote of the
people, that American Liberty extends to the unborn. Our reply to
the Supreme Court should be that they have no jurisdiction and
demand that Congress rein them in.
If we do not take a stronger position
defending American Liberty as created by Our Founding Fathers it
will be lost.
That would be very
unfair to your grandchildren.
