Month: December 2023

Abolition News – December 2023

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Dusty Deevers Wins Oklahoma Senate Seat

Abolitionist Pastor Dusty Deevers won his Oklahoma Senate election by 10 points over his Democrat opponent in a special election held on December 12th despite an onslaught of slander from both Republicans and Democrats in the state. We praise God for this and ask you to keep Senator Deevers in your prayers.

AIMKS Announces Abolition Rally

Abortion is Murder Kansas (AIMKS) announced a rally to abolish abortion will be held on January 16th at 8:30 local time. According to the event description, “We are going to our Capitol to demand of our legislators that abortion be abolished, that child sacrifice end, that baby murder be criminalized for God’s sake and our neighbors’. We will hear from many pastors from around the state, we will set up meetings with our legislators, we will sing hymns, chant chants, and call the world to repent of their apathy for the genocide we all live in. And we will go every year, preach every month, demand justice every day until abortion is abolished.”

Pro-Life Leaders Brag About Killing Equal Protection Bills in MO/Looking to Expand Abortion Rights in Oklahoma

On December 1st, Missouri House Representative Bob Titus and Senator Mike Moon prefilled two bills of equal protection, HB1508 and SB775, respectively. By December 8th, Missouri Pro-Life leader Samuel Lee (who spoke against a bill of equal protection last year in the Senate hearing for SB356) vocalized his objections to the bills. Pro-life Missouri State Representative Tony Lovasco also spoke out against these bills stating that while equal protection may be an intellectually consistent position, it is an incredibly bad idea. Bob Titus then withdrew his bill in the House. Further information can be found here and here.

In Oklahoma, State Chair for Oklahomans for Life Tony Lauinger, is back for yet another year calling for the reintroduction of rape and incest laws concerning abortion, which would reopen kill mills in the state.

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Not a Victim is continuing to fundraise for new “Things You Say To Us” literature focused on equal protection. You can donate here.

Abolitionists Rising, which recently broke 200K subscribers on YouTube, released two new videos titled, “You’re Arguing In Bad Faith!” Pro-Choice Activists Debate Abolitionist” and “Should Women Be Prosecuted?: A Debate With Babylon Bee’s Joel Berry“.

Abolition Abortion Texas (AATX) published two new articles on their site titled, “Pro-Life laws aren’t working. Equal protection is the answer.” and “They aren’t fighting as Christians. We are.” AATX also released two new videos on their YouTube channel as well titled, “Pro-Life laws aren’t working. Here’s why.” and “Equal Protection is advancing in Texas and across the country!“

End Abortion Now released an new video titled, “Our Biggest Year Yet! Partner With Us In 2024!“.

Bradley Pierce of AATX was featured on the Truth Over Tribe podcast for an episode titled, “Is Being Pro-Life Enough? with Abortion Abolitionist Bradley Pierce” where he did an excellent job handling the questions and objections of the pro-life podcast hosts.

End Abortion Ohio was featured in an article titled, “After Ohio Supreme Court dismisses anti-abortion arguments, advocates work to unveil total abortion ban.”

Laura Klassen, founder of Choice42.com, was featured on the Pro-Life Guys podcast to discuss IVF. She also wrote an article for The Art of Worship website titled, “Pastors, Love Your Preborn Neighbor“.

Abolitionist Pastor Brian Gunter was featured on Iron Sharpens Iron radio on an episode titled, “Has Pro-life, Evangelical Christian, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson Betrayed the Cause to Rescue the Unborn from Slaughter?”

Abolish Abortion NC started a Twitter account which can be followed here.

InTheGrove has a new sweatshirt avliable for purchase:

Upcoming Events

January 11th – Abolition, What is it? Hosted by Abolish Abortion Nebraska. Event will take place at Dominion Covenant Church, 6140 Irving Rd., Omaha, NE from 5:30-8:00pm local time with dinner provided.

January 16th – AIMKS Abolish Abortion Rally in the Kansas State Capitol–2nd Floor Rotunda starting at 8:30 local time.

February 3rd – Abolish Abortion TN Mini-Conference from 2:00-7:45PM EST at North Athens Baptist Church.

April 18th – 21st – The 2024 Abolitionists Rising Conference, April 18th-21st in Charlotte, NC.

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Not a Victim Announces New Edition of “Things Your Say to Us” Focused on Equal Protection

On November 22nd, Not A Victim announced a new printing of her “Things You Say to Us” cards that will specifically focus on Equal Protection and an accompanying fundraiser to fund their printing. According to her fundraising page, “Bradley Pierce (Abolitionist Attorney) made a little comment about how we should do a new series of our “Things You Say To Us” (in the abortion debate) card series, but this time, specifically addressing the things LEGISLATORS, Republicans, Pastors, and Christians say to us in the debates about the equal protection bills. I thought that was a pretty profound idea. So, I took my notes from my meetings this last session with over 150 legislators and their staffers and wrote up 48 “Things They Said To Us” and our short responses.” A total of $7,845 is needed to print the cards and needed quickly as several legislative sessions begin in January.

Abolition Resolution Passes at Kentucky Baptist Convention, Fails in Louisiana

The Kentucky Baptist Convention gathered on November 14th for their annual meeting. Abolish Abortion Kentucky, which is led by Southern Baptist Pastors, put forth a resolution titled, “On Equal Protection of the Laws for Preborn Children.” The resolution did not have to be voted on to be brought of committee and was passed unanimously by the messengers.

The Louisiana Baptist Convention met on November 15th. Abolitionist Pastor, Brian Gunter, again put forth a Resolution on Equal Protection and it was again rejected by the Resolutions Committee. Pastor Gunter moved to bring the resolution out of committee, but it was eventually voted down after two spoke for the resolution and two against. A video of the exchange can be found here. Apologia Studios also interview Pastor Gunter here and he addressed his own congregation here. I also recommend reading this thread from Abolitionists Rising.

On November 17th, Baptist Message slandered Pastor Gunter saying his resolution called for, “the prosecution of women who underwent an abortion” which is false and addressed specifically in the resolution which states, “mothers would not be subject to criminal liability for an act prior to the effective date of the law (ex post facto).”

End Abortion Now Releases Two New Exposés

End Abortion Now has released two new exposés on their YouTube Channel exposing the hypocrisy of the Pro-Life Establishment. One is titled, “Exposé: Mike Johnson & Pro-Life Hypocrisy” which exposes current Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and how he worked to keep abortion legal in Louisiana. Brian Gunter is interviewed in the film and after the film premiered Mike Johnson responded to Brian’s claims in the exposé which can be found in this thread.

The second exposé was titled, “The Fatal Flaw: Lies, Laws, & Pro-life Deception” which shows the real reason abortion is still legal in the United States during and after Roe v. Wade.

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Abolitionists Rising released multiple videos on their YouTube channel including:

Erika Schanzenbach had two excellent threads recently. One explaining how the pro-life claim that “70% of women are coerced into abortion” is false, and another on explaining how John 8 is not about Jesus overturning or redefining justice.

Abolish Abortion NC is helping to connect churches to act in unison on strategic projects in their state to see abortion abolished. They are asking this video be shared with NC churches to help them accomplish this task!

Upcoming Events

February 3rd, 2024 – Abolish Abortion TN Mini-Conference from 2:00-7:45PM EST at North Athens Baptist Church.

April 18th – 21st – The 2024 Abolitionists Rising Conference has been scheduled for April 18th-21st in Charlotte, NC.