US Federal Human Life Amendment Petition

Hello,

Would you send the following email out to all of your Mike Huckabee groups for me? I would like to send this out to several groups, but I can't send out to more than 3 Huckabee groups in a day. I realize you may have a message board on your main site to which I may have already posted this, but I have noticed that not many people view those messages.

Good Afternoon,

I have started a petition for a United States Federal Human Life Amendment. I need to get this petition out to as many people as possible and it will take support from many, many citizens, organizations and companies to get the word out. Please personally read my petition, sign it and send it on to everyone you know. Additionally, please consider placing a link on your websites and blogs and if you have a business I urge you to send alerts to your members to sign this petition, as well.

My initial goal is to get a million signatures, but my ultimate goal is to get 5-10 million signatures in order to get Congress' attention in this matter. We need to show congress that American citizens want to protect all life in the US.

Newt Gingrich is still continuing with his "Drill Here, Drill Now" fight, but he is making great success with using his online petition and advertisements. Oregon and Georgia are having great success with human life amendments at the state level, as well.

However, it is now apparent that we must have an amendment at the federal level because liberal judiciaries ignored the recent law that had been voted in by the people in California and legislators in Massachusetts. If the justices can disregard laws and legislators can ignore their constituents' beliefs at the state level, who is to say that the current S. 3111 bill "Life at Conception Act" can't get thrown away at the federal level since it is simply a bill to pass a law and not an amendment to the constitution? We must stand united in this issue in order to fight for the rights of innocent lives, which you can help initially by signing this petition:

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"Those who promote abortion are still living" -- G. Midgette

"If a baby eagle inside an egg can be protected as an endangered form of life why can't a baby?" --Lisa De La Cruz


My Story:

I want to take a few minutes to tell you my story from both sides of the abortion issue. I am not proud of many of my decisions in my life prior to becoming a Christian, but I want to take accountability for them and help other women not to make the same mistakes. When I was 18 years old, I spent one night with my boyfriend (we had even used a condom) and became pregnant. I didn't know what to do; I was scared, especially of my mother's reaction. So I called the adult in my life that I most trusted. She said that I needed to get an abortion and that she would inform my mother that I would come to her house in a couple of days "to babysit" her newborn (as I had done before). In actuality, she would take me to the nearest abortion clinic. I had always done as I was told because to do otherwise meant a beating, so I obeyed, even though I had vowed I would never have an abortion. Everything went so quickly. Two days later, Fran and I went to the clinic. It was over in a few hours. I remember going into a room to be "counseled" before the procedure. The only thing done in that room was a blood test, followed by explanation that the procedure would take 2 hours to complete. No one told me of the emotional expectations nor that an abortion was extremely painful to the unborn. No mention of the fetus was mentioned at all, nor what took place during the procedure. I was told that I would be put under anesthesia, then when I awoke and was ready, I leave.

When I started to awaken from the operation before I was even aware I was awake, I began crying. As I became cognizant I was surprised by my emotional response, so I asked the doctor why I couldn't stop crying, especially because I was a person that very seldom cried. He responded that 95% or more of the girls came out from an abortion similarly. I then asked him if it was a chemical reaction to the anesthesia. He replied that it was not a physical response because the same anesthesia was used in many types of operations without crying upon rejuvenation. He said this was a unique response to abortion. I had not been brought up going to church, or even discussing religion, so I knew right then that what I had done was wrong. Additionally, the fact that so many other women had had that same response further made my realization concrete.

Guilt chased me for many years after that, until the day that I was Christ washed away my sins. Two years later, I was studying Arabic at the Defense Language Institute (DLI) when my father suddenly died from a heart attack/stroke/seizure combo in March '88. For 3 months I grieved w/out having the opportunity to discuss my sorrow with anyone. When the pain became more than I could bear, I sought comfort, through sex. I spent the night with a man that I had been dating since I first arrived at DLI & with whom I had hopes of deepening our relationship. When he agreed to spend the night with me, I took it as a sign that he wanted to move to the next level of commitment. I got pregnant that night. We did not spend another night together, so I knew the exact night I had gotten pregnant that July. Chuck was always with a group of people, so I got up early one morning (before physical training, we called it PT) to catch him while he was in his room alone getting dressed to give him the news. The first words that came out of his mouth was "get an abortion". I was shocked at first, then became angry. I knew this time w/out a doubt that I would never do that again & I told him so. He told me that his military career was too important for me to hinder his career. I told him I would have my baby without him.

It is with certainty that I tell you today that I have NEVER regretted keeping that child. I have spoken and read many stories since that day about women who have had abortions and those who have chosen to keep their children. I have not come across a single woman who has NOT regretted, been ashamed of and suffered from choosing to abort AND I have NEVER come across a woman who HAS regretted keeping her child. Quite the contrary, I have only found blessings upon those who chose the right.

I would like to blame my fear of my mother (because I was deathly afraid of her), my lack of knowledge of Christ, my immaturity and youth on my wretched decision to murder my child, but I must take accountability of the fact that despite all of that, I knew deep down in my heart that it was wrong and I can not place blame on any set of situations for my action. I and I alone made that choice. I could have chosen to take responsibility for my actions and I could have been blessed, but instead I took the coward's way out. However, I must say, that had I been more informed, had a relationship with Christ, had a stronger core foundation in my life, and if the abortion had been illegal, I am sure that I would have made the right choice.

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Lisa De La Cruz