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)
