In this episode of Life Matters, Commissioner Brian Johnston interviews Eric Eisenhammer, Vice-president for Communications of California Pro-Life Council. They discuss the Unborn Sanctuary Resolution, a powerful educational and civic action which encourages locally elected representatives to distance themselves from the oppressive state sponsorship of unlimited abortion.

Unborn Sanctuary Resolutions have been in enacted in New Mexico (Roswell) and Utah (Riverton) in reaction to the open unlimited acts of abortion authorized in New York and Virginia and other states in 2019. The animating influence was governor Northam’s of Virginia open admission that if a child should be born alive in the process of abortion it is simply “set-aside”.

When a similar measure was introduced in the Santa Fe legislature for New Mexico the town of Roswell would have none of it, and immediately passed the Unborn Sanctuary Resolution. These resolutions (unlike some measures proposed in Texas, do not ban anything). They simply are a public proclamation of disdain for the wanton killing of unborn children and children born alive in the process of an abortion. As a resolution, they cannot be enjoined in court. They are merely an expression of documented distain and distancing from an evil state-wide policy. Local council-members have been very excited and pleased to have this opportunity to air their grievances and opposition to the wholesale abortion industry operating in California

Perhaps most importantly, the introduction of the resolution and the public debate that follows, is an educational opportunity for not only the public at large but even the local pro-life community. Because many have been deceived by the intentionally misleading, fake news and the media’s protection and adherence to “choice” being unlimited abortion rights.

The Resolution

WHEREAS, the State of California, through Medi-Cal (https://files.medi-cal.ca.gov/pubsdoco/publications/masters-mtp/part2/abort_m00o03.doc) pays to kill a human child at any stage of gestation and without requiring any medically-indicated reason, such as disability of the child or health of the mother; California is paying to kill healthy children in healthy mothers, without accountability.

WHEREAS, CA Health and Safety Code Sec. 123435 states that a child born alive in the act of abortion must receive the same medical care and support as any other child born spontaneously. However, the current administration of the State exercises no meaningful oversight or enforcement of this life-affirming law, the law is toothless;

WHEREAS, the State of California under CA Health and Safety Code § 18944.18.(b) repealed regulations on California abortion clinics, greatly reducing accountability, cleanliness standards, emergency and safety regulations;

WHEREAS, as outlined in the MediCal provider manual cited above, the state of California funds and promotes unlimited abortion as a matter of ideological preference;

WHEREAS, every city in CA is nevertheless standing in direct opposition to this ideology of human disposal, and is already using its civic power to affirm a preference for human life by offering - in answer to the many "trash-can babies" that had been discarded at birth - an open-armed safe place at every fire station where a young mother can leave the newborn without any legal or personal risk;

WHEREAS, polls indicate even those in California who consider themselves pro-choice do not necessarily support the killing of these older children and the government funding of such killing, especially when there is no medically indicated reason. Marist, Gallup, LA Times).

THEREFORE, We the City/County of do hereby affirm our preference for the acceptance and protection of vulnerable human lives, particularly of vulnerable viable children about to be thrown out.

We repudiate the euphemistic use of the term "choice" to cover up what is in fact the killing and dismembering of a child in the womb, i.e. human abortion.
We assert and affirm the actual life-embracing "choice"-- letting the child live.
We affirm the many other options - "Choices" - that are widely available to women experiencing unwanted pregnancies and we uphold that these are in preference to killing the child.
Keeping the child;
raising the child with the comfort and support and assistance of others;
involvement of grandparents, church, care homes, and other non-profit support teams; and adoption are all options that have existed and should continue to be asserted as preferable and elemental acts of human kindness. There are an estimated 2 million couples currently waiting to adopt in the United States. https://www.americanadoptions.com/pregnant/waiting_adoptive_families. Every child killed in an abortion or thrown away in an abortion is indeed wanted, and will gladly be cared for right now, by loving, adoptive parents, if only given the chance.
We affirm that Life is the best choice available and the only one that preserves the integrity of human life, the protection of which is the foundation of a civil society, and the principal purpose of this City Council's existence.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:

We do hereby proclaim that our community is a Sanctuary for the Unborn Child, and should his or her life be sought by means of abortion or any other destructive act, we pledge to protect her if born alive. As we have already demonstrated through our police and fire station safe place commitments, We commit ourselves to his and her protection as a matter of civic responsibility. We strongly affirm and proclaim the many voluntary citizen resources that are available in our community to aid both mother and child.

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