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Friday, February 26, 2021

Vote NO on "Value Them Both", if You Love the Preborn...

ATTENTION: Both the House and the Senate of Kansas have passed a resolution to put an amendment (Value Them Both) to the bill of rights of the Kansas state constitution on the ballot on August 22, 2021. 

Although Kansans for Life (and almost every other ProLife organization in the state) are calling people to vote yes, Abolish Abortion Kansas urges you to NOT support “Value Them Both” (VTB) and to spread the word to others.  This is an iniquitous amendment.  Here is the wording:

"Regulation of abortion. Because Kansans value both women and children, the constitution of the state of Kansas does not require government funding of abortion and does not create or secure a right to abortion. To the extent permitted by the constitution of the United States, the people, through their elected state representatives and state senators, may pass laws regarding abortion, including, but not limiting to, laws that account for circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or circumstances of necessity to save the life of the mother...

Explanatory statement on ballot:  “The Value Them Both Amendment would affirm there is no Kansas constitutional right to abortion, and would reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion..."

What is wrong with this?

    I.        This amendment does NOT value them both.  It shows partiality and God is against it.

"Are ye not then partial in your selves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? ...If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors" (James 2:4,8-9).

Valuing children in the womb equally would require that those children be given equal protection under the law from murder, even as men and women themselves today have protection from murder under the law.  Loving our neighbors as ourselves requires it. (See also Exodus 23:2-3,6-8; Deuteronomy 16:18-20; 24:16-17; Proverbs 24:11-12; 31:8-9; Jeremiah 9:3; Matthew 25:45; Mark 12:30-31)

Consider the ludicrous action of putting forth an amendment that stated: “We value both men and women, therefore we reserve the right to regulate how women can be raped when and if men decide to do it."  That would be offensive and demeaning to both men and women!

But that is exactly what the VTB amendment is proposing: "We value both women and preborn children, therefore we reserve the right to regulate how the preborn can be murdered when and if women decide to do it."  This is offensive and demeaning to both women and children! 

  II.        This amendment protects the WRONG thing. 

Instead of protecting the preborn, it merely protects the ProLife regulatory laws and the freedom to make more!  The amendment states correctly that "a right to abortion" is not in the Kansas constitution, but then stoops to create and codify "the right to pass laws to regulate abortion."  The people of Kansas do not have the right to regulate the murder of some humans! But they do have the duty to protect humans from being murdered.  Regulatory laws make allowance for babies to be slain—the amendment would ensure that vulnerable children are allowed abandonment to destruction by their parents. 

God says, "Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!" (Isaiah 10:1-2).

When God says, "Woe”, His people should say, "Whoa!" Regulating who can murder, when they can murder, how they can murder, where they can murder, and why they can murder is making an iniquitous decree.  Regulating abortion is treating it like Healthcare, not what it is—Homicide. Sadly, what the ProAbortion crowd calls healthcare, the ProLife establishment treats as nothing more.  Repent with us. (See also Psalm 94:4-23; Proverbs 11:1; Jeremiah 8:11; Micah 6:8; Galatians 4:16; Ephesians 4:15; 5:7-11)

III.        This amendment is unnecessary and an enemy of abolition and equal protection.  Our constitution already gives humans in general certain rights, such as: 

1. "Equal rights. All men are possessed of equal and inalienable natural rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

2. "Political power; privileges.  All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded in their authority, and are instituted for their equal protection and benefit."

10. "Trial; defense of accused; witness against self; double jeopardy.  In all prosecutions, the accused shall be allowed to appear and defend in person, or by counsel; to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him; to face the witness face to face..." 

Not only will the amendment not protect babies from murder, it will be an obstacle to the future abolition of this great evil.  Although abortion is not a right in the constitution, VTB expressly puts abortion in the constitution itself as something to be regulated, not condemned as the murder it is.  It would specifically establish that the right to life and due process of law (which is already in the constitution) would not apply to the preborn.  It would be similar to amending the constitution to secure the right to regulate how slavery of a certain people group would be operated in the state.  If it takes a lot of both time and money to get a new amendment passed, it is far more difficult to remove.

"Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place" (Jeremiah 22:3). (See also Psalm 82:1-8; Psalm 119:126-128; Isaiah 1:4-6,13-18; 59:1-15; Amos 5:12-15; Luke 18:2-5; John 7:24)

We as Christians, and as Kansans, must rise up against this amendment and vote it down.  We must persistently show our legislators what they must do and demand that they stop regulating murder!  We do not want the regulation of child sacrifice in our constitution!  

Call your legislators to do their duty to do justly in establishing equal protection for all people, born and preborn.  "Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it" (Jeremiah 5:1). Be on the right side of history.  Become an abolitionist.

Do not support the VTB amendment on the ballot.  

Abortion must be abolished.

(For a more in depth look at the VTB, go to and read: http://timetowinabattle.blogspot.com/2022/01/an-assessment-of-value-them-both.html)

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