The Danger of Ballot Measures
The Danger of Ballot Measures
Tim O’Connor – Center for the Preservation of Humanity – 10/30/2022
I think everyone in the United States, as well as most of the world, is aware that there is a midterm election coming up. Not only are the political races crucially important, there are some ballot measures gaining national prominence as well. Those gaining national prominence are the propositions which allow baby murder to be added as a ‘right’ added to state constitutions and firearms restrictions and/or bans. The reason for this is because the psychopaths who want to murder babies and destroy everyone’s legal ability to own firearms know that if normal legislation would be voted on, the politicians voting for the laws would be politically attacked and summarily dismissed at the next election. With these two topics – ‘abortion’ and firearms restrictions – the politicians know that using the ‘people’ as endorsement tools is the only politically viable way to enact those measures.
The baby-murder squads have managed to get their humanity-extinction efforts on the ballots of six states; California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, and Vermont.
California’s Proposition 1 earned a grade-level score of 23 and 19 for the title and the summary, respectively. The title reads, “Constitutional Right to Reproductive Freedom. Legislative Constitutional Amendment while the summary reads, “Amends California Constitution to expressly include an individual’s fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which includes the fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and the fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives. This amendment does not narrow or limit the existing rights to privacy and equal protection under the California Constitution.”
On September 27, 2022, California legalized infanticide for viable children up to 28 days old and, possibly, for up to a year old. Their demonically-possessed psychopathic governor, Gavin Newsome, also signed 11 other pieces of baby-murdering legislation into law. California has the whackjob voters that every democrat wishes the whole country had – they don’t fear the push back from the state’s anti-abortion advocates. Enshrining infanticide and baby murder in the Constitution; however, may be daunting for even these hardened Molech worshipers. Constitutional amendments are hard to change – California is proposing to add the following text to theirs, “SEC. 1.1. The state shall not deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives. This section is intended to further the constitutional right to privacy guaranteed by Section 1, and the constitutional right to not be denied equal protection guaranteed by Section 7. Nothing herein narrows or limits the right to privacy or equal protection.” The real kicker comes in the fiscal impact statement; however, which reads, “No direct fiscal effect because reproductive rights already are protected by state law.” The demonic entities running California at full throttle, destination Hell, are not content with codifying their murderous activities into law. No they want to make it virtually impossible for California to ever be able to return to the ranks of civilized society by enshrining child sacrifice in the constitution itself.
In Kansas, a ballot measure was, sadly, defeated on August 2, 2022. The proposed amendment on Kansas would have added language to the state constitution reading, “§ 22. 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 limited to, laws that account for circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or circumstances of necessity to save the life of the mother.” This proposal sounds extremely generous to me. The voters of Kansas; however, found the leftstream media lies and big money sponsors from the baby murder industry compelling enough to defeat the measure. Kansas is traveling the same train tracks as California is albeit at a much slower pace.
Amendment 2 in Kentucky reads, “Are you in favor of amending the Constitution of Kentucky by creating a new Section of the Constitution to be numbered Section 26A to state as follows: To protect human life, nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion?” Hopefully the voters in Kentucky are smarter than the voters in Kansas and enact this amendment. If money is any indicator, they will not be. As of October 24, 2022, those supporting the amendment have raised just over $1 million and spent $557,525 to support their cause. The largest contributors were the Catholic Conference of Kentucky ($375K) and the Kentucky Baptist Convention ($290K). The baby murder proponents against the proposed amendment have raised $5.31 million with four donors contributing $500,000 or more; Sixteen Thirty Fund ($550K), American Civil Liberties Union ($514K), Advocacy Action Fund, Inc., and Stacy Schusterman.
Further north, in Wicked Whitmer’s Wonderland of Waste (a.k.a. Michigan) Proposal 3 will be decided on November 8. This iteration of the battle between life and murdering babies is akin to California’s efforts. The title reads, “A proposal to amend the state constitution to establish new individual right to reproductive freedom, including right to make all decisions about pregnancy and abortion; allow state to regulate abortion in some cases; and forbid prosecution of individuals exercising established right.” The summary reads:
“This proposed constitutional amendment would:
Establish new individual right to reproductive freedom, including right to make and carry out all decisions about pregnancy, such as prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion, miscarriage management, and infertility;
Allow state to regulate abortion after fetal viability, but not prohibit if medically needed to protect a patient’s life or physical or mental health;
Forbid state discrimination in enforcement of this right; prohibit prosecution of an individual, or a person helping a pregnant individual, for exercising rights established by this amendment;
Invalidate state laws conflicting with this amendment.
“Should this proposal be adopted?”
If adopted, Michigan’s Constitution would be amended to read:
“Article 1, Section 28 Right to Reproductive Freedom
“(1) Every individual has a fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which entails the right to make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to pregnancy, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management, and infertility care.
“An individual's right to reproductive freedom shall not be denied, burdened, nor infringed upon unless justified by a compelling state interest achieved by the least restrictive means.
“Notwithstanding the above, the state may regulate the provision of abortion care after fetal viability, provided that in no circumstance shall the state prohibit an abortion that, in the professional judgment of an attending health care professional, is medically indicated to protect the life or physical or mental health of the pregnant individual.
“(2) The state shall not discriminate in the protection or enforcement of this fundamental right.
“(3) The state shall not penalize, prosecute, or otherwise take adverse action against an individual based on their actual, potential, perceived, or alleged pregnancy outcomes, including but not limited to miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion. Nor shall the state penalize, prosecute, or otherwise take adverse action against someone for aiding or assisting a pregnant individual in exercising their right to reproductive freedom with their voluntary consent.
“(4) For the purposes of this section:
“A state interest is "compelling" only if it is for the limited purpose of protecting the health of an individual seeking care, consistent with accepted clinical standards of practice and evidence-based medicine, and does not infringe on that individual's autonomous decision-making. "Fetal viability" means: the point in pregnancy when, in the professional judgment of an attending health care professional and based on the particular facts of the case, there is a significant likelihood of the fetus's sustained survival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures.
“(5) This section shall be self-executing. Any provision of this section held invalid shall be severable from the remaining portions of this section.”
Apparently, from the way this amendment reads, pregnant males will be permitted to make claims under this proposal as well. Not only that, Michigan will make itself the arbiter of who can and who cannot reproduce under the text of this law. Adding in the mental health claims able to be made by a pregnant woman makes the Michigan proposal sound like the baby-murdering tourist destination of choice – California. The only thing the amendment is missing to make Michigan exactly like California is the word perinatal which translates to infanticide. Of course, there is no mention of the father nor the rights and wishes of the father included in this amendment.
Montana will vote on LR-131, Medical Care Requirements for Born-Alive Infants Measure. Montana’s efforts display the nearly unanimous depravity of the democrat party. Literally, democrats are murderers. Every democrat in the Montana House voted against the original version of the bill, save for one. Republicans unanimously voted to pass it. The Montana Senate passed an amended version with one republican and all 19 democrats voting against it. On the return to the Montana House, the bill passed; however, all democrats and on republican voted against it. The bill initiated the ballot measure in order to go around the former murderous Montana governor, democrat Steve Bullock, who vetoed a similar bill. Montana has come to it’s senses around the baby murder question and elected an anti-baby murder governor, Greg Gianforte, in 2021. The ballot measure would legally require any child who is born alive to receive medical treatment. In other words, Ralph Northam’s murderous idea of ‘keep ‘em comfta’ble’ and leaving babies on a table to die would not fly with the passage of this Montana measure.
Finally there is Vermont’s Proposal 5. This proposal would amend the Vermont Constitution to read, “Article 22. Personal reproductive liberty. That an individual’s right to personal reproductive autonomy is central to the liberty and dignity to determine one’s own life course and shall not be denied or infringed unless justified by a compelling State interest achieved by the least restrictive means.” It sounds exactly like Michigan’s Proposal 3 with far fewer words. Also, as in Michigan, the baby murder industry has raised far more financial resources than the opposition - $567,419 to $19,012 as of October 1. At almost 30 times the amount raised, hopefully the voters of Vermont recognize the sanctity of life despite the financial donations of Planned Parenthood (Vermont Action Fund [$229K] and Action Fund [$53K]), Sixteen Thirty Fund ($27K), and Donna and Jake Carpenter ($25K). The probability of this sickening amendment passing in Vermont is high; however, given the Vermont voter’s desire to continuously elect a stupid Marxist (Communist), Bernie Sanders, into Congress since 1991 – 32 years and counting.
Focusing on a recurring theme here, who or what is this Sixteen Thirty Fund? According to their focus areas page, “From advancing equity and racial justice, to promoting access to affordable health care, to confronting climate change, to strengthening our democracy, we are proud to support leaders and causes that share our progressive values and aspirations for a fair, just America.” This group has nothing to do with the United States of America. It would seem they actually hate America by supporting social credit scores and digital currencies, socialized healthcare, climate change mitigation efforts, and strengthening democracy in order to kill a republic. What they do is collect money from donors and give it to causes they support, like gun-grabbing, America-hating Giffords. In my mind the group is nothing but a money laundering operation which has made itself legitimate.
Amy Kurtz, once a prominent member of the National Education Association, now president of the Sixteen Thirty Fund writes,
“As progressives, we have a responsibility to mobilize in the face of societal challenges and provide new investments and initiatives to advocate for what we believe in—from addressing climate change, to protecting voting rights and access to health care, to promoting equity and social justice. Our democracy depends on people making their voices heard, and we believe that advocacy is the backbone of our democracy.”
Sixteen Thirty Fund is under the umbrella of Arabella Advisors. According to their website:
“Like our clients, we are driven by a desire to change the world for the better by enhancing equity, strengthening communities, protecting our planet, and more. After nearly 20 years serving the philanthropic sector, we have the breadth and depth of experience to tackle even the biggest challenges quickly and effectively, and the dedication and creative thinking to offer personalized support whenever needed.
“Our service offerings, philanthropy and nonprofit management expertise, and connections to funders and changemakers all position us to help our clients overcome the challenges standing in the way of needed change. We partner with those clients to find—or create—the pathways that lead from big ideas to even bigger impact.”
What Arabella is in actuality is one of the major liaisons between the United Nations and the so-called ‘grassroots’ NGOs in the United States. Having absolutely zero respect for the United States Constitution, it’s laws, and it’s rights, Arabella exists to destroy the United States and create a United Nation’s led territory out of what was once there. These ‘philanthropists’ are anti-American scumbags dedicated to absolutely destroying this nation and the people living in it. Influence Watch covers this entity in much greater than I have space for here.
In 2020, Sixteen Thirty Fund donated over $273 million to “those working to ensure voting access and civic participation by supporting election infrastructure; groups advocating for pay equity, paid family leave, and fair tax policy; fighting for healthcare for all American’s; and advocating for common sense gun reform.” The document fails to identify any donors to the fund, although they do disclose the amounts donated; 35 individuals gave $1 million or more, the highest donation coming in at $86,234,295. There are very few individuals with $86 million lying around to donate.
As infuriating as the baby murder industry’s lies and the media’s collusion with those lies, the same thing is playing out in Oregon with firearms. A ballot measure in Oregon, titled Measure 114, would radically violate Amendment Two of the US Constitution. Because of the length of the proposal, 12 pages, I will defer to the synopsis provided by NPR’s article on the measure:
“Oregon will ask voters in the coming days whether to significantly increase restrictions on guns. If passed, a ballot measure in that state would require people who want to buy a gun to pay a fee, take a safety course, submit fingerprints and pass a background check to obtain a permit. High-capacity magazines — those that hold 10 or more rounds — would be banned outright.”
Oregon gun-grabbers have out-raised groups with keeping the Second Amendment as intact as possible by a factor of nearly 7 - $451,000 to $66,000. The voters of Oregon are also predominantly morons who lean so far left that they more closely align with the demonic ideas of V. I. Lenin and Mao Zedong than the ideas of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Oregon will most likely begin gun-grabbing very soon after this idiotic measure is passed by the equally idiotic voters of Oregon approve it. The top five donors supporting this unconstitutional measure are Lift Every Voice Oregon ($126K), Giffords ($100K), Oregon Raindrop Fund ($50K), Oregon Alliance for Gun Safety ($48K), and Nurses United Political Action Committee ($20K). The common sense and constitutionally aligned top donors are the Oregon Firearms Federation PAC ($31K), Brian Puziss and Lee Jurasevich each with ($2.5K), Christopher Lindsay ($2K), and Mark Graham ($1K).
How is that for democracy, democrats? Rev. Dr. Mark Knutson, Rabbi Michael Cahana, and Marilyn Keller are the chief petitioners for Measure 114 of Lift Every Voice Oregon. These three, in particular the Rabbi who should be acutely aware of exactly the methods used by the Nazi’s to get the Jews to the concentration camps, should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. Not only are they disregarding the US Constitution. Not only are they pretending that concentrating firepower in the hands of criminal elements and government forces will solve gun violence. They are using children to effect these changes by having these psychologically abused children gather signatures. They are proud of having children as young as 12 collect signatures on their behalf.
Giffords is an organization that wants no guns in anyone’s hands ever, except for the government’s. The home page on her website portrays Marxists demanding action on gun confiscation efforts. She has always been that way. Of course, Giffords was started by the former psychopathic gun-grabbing governor of Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords. She was shot by another psychotic lunatic (literally, he suffers from schizophrenia) in 2011. Now she demands that all guns be given up everywhere by law-abiding citizens in order to prevent gun violence. The Giffords gun-grabbing website features all kinds of writings, including this tidbit, “The use of guns to intimidate and threaten voters, elected officials, and peaceful demonstrators poses a serious threat to our democracy.” Of course, she is out of her mind by making this claim, but, nonetheless, the knuckle-dragging America haters like Merrick Garland will start thinking save democracy by disarmament.
Like Giffords, the Oregon Raindrop Fund is a Communist organization, which, “envisions a socially equitable and just world, with an empowered, well-informed public, actively engaged in a thriving democracy.” What they are really saying here is they want everyone who disagrees with them to be made unable to disagree with them any longer.
“The Oregon Alliance for Gun Safety creates innovative policy, advocates for changes in laws, and promotes community education to create an Oregon where every community is safe from the devastating consequences of gun violence.” This is another communist organization posing as saviors for the people of Oregon by grabbing guns. They use victim statements to promote their cause.
Nurses United (NU-PAC) is a Political Action Committee in Oregon. The PAC serves to push the interests of the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA) using the ballot measure system. ONA is associated with the American Nurses Association, American Federation of Teachers, and AFL-CIO. “NU-PAC makes it a priority to defeat ballot measures which seek to limit the rights of employees to actively participate in union activities. NU-PAC also supports many initiatives related to health policy, or revenue measures for programs important to nurses.” ONA’s mission is, “We use our collective power to advocate for nursing, quality health care and healthy communities.” They are another Communist front pretending to act in the interest of nurses by taking away legal means of effective self-protection from everyone.
What I do not see in here is a demand to return to the morality of the Bible. That is the bedrock cornerstone of the United States. People can argue against that fact all they want; however, it’s still a fact. Valuing the sanctity and inviolability of a human life is central to both of these issues. None of these people have any regard for the US Constitution, the morality required to allow the document and the nation it created to survive, and even less regard for the Lawgiver of those morals – God. As we vote on November 8, almost all of us will have some kind of ballot initiative to decide. They alter the fabric of our state and, thus, our nation. Consider them carefully. Consider them in light of the Law God gave to all of us. Remember that our rights in the United States come from these Biblical concepts. If we ever hope to get rid of violence against the unborn we need to have a massive awakening to what these baby murdering scum are actually doing while they describe the murders they commit as reproductive rights. The same applies to the increasing violence in our nation – if we want to stem it we need to return to valuing human life. The law abiding are not running around murdering people, criminals are. How do we get criminals to stop committing criminal acts? A return to Biblical morality and a shared concept of valuing human life.
Bless God and God bless.
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