Pro-Life groups rally at Democrats’ offices across the state
/“DAY OF OUTRAGE” PUTS A DENT IN WEINBERG, HUTTLE, GREENBERG, JASEY, ARMATO, GOPAL ET AL’S S-3030/ A-4848 ABORTION BILL
by Dvorah
It was a big win for every New Jersey mother, father, and family defending life. A group of New Jersey Pro-Life defenders from all around the state gathered in front of legislators’ offices to defend and demand respect for the lives of unborn children, their mothers and fathers, and to honor the traditional family. Organizations such as the Center for Garden State Families (Rev. Gregory Quinlan), New Jersey Right to Life (Marie Tasy), LifeNet (Christine Flaherty), Black Genocide (Rev. Clenard Childress), the Family Policy Council, and groups from local churches gathered in front of Assemblywoman Mila Jasey’s office in Maplewood, Senator Gopal’s office in Freehold, and Assemblyman Armato’s office in Northfield.
Reverend Gregory Quinlan, from the Center of Garden State Families, adamantly stated their position: “We know this has gotten Assemblywoman Mila Jasey concerned due to her immediate response as soon as she saw the crowd. This bill is a constitutional right to kill. We are fighting to preserve the constitutional right for life.”
The bill they are opposing, S-3030/ A-4848, uses open-ended language that victims’ groups fear will draw human traffickers to New Jersey and make our state a hub for exploitation. The bill explicitly guarantees what it calls “reproductive autonomy” to anyone with a bus or airline ticket to New Jersey. The bill provides no-questions-asked taxpayer-funded contraception, abortion, and medical coverage “to carry a pregnancy to term.” The bill specifically states that “it should be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes.”
Noticeably absent in the Act is any language limiting abortions at any period of gestation, an aspect that deeply concerns New Jersey Right to Life Executive Director, Marie Tasy.
“This bill is to protect child sex traffickers. For the past 6 years we have been uncovering and bringing attention to the devastating realization that trafficking occurs in the State of New Jersey, and we will not stop until we save our children,” noted Rev. Quinlan.
The rallies brought out many mothers, grandmothers, daughters, and fathers from all nationalities with signs reading “Kill the bill, not me”, “If Black Lives Matter, why does legislators continue to perform black genocide” and “End Abortion”. Passing vehicles on the heavily used streets registered their support.
Local NJ news outlets provided substantial coverage for this “Day of Outrage,” a fact appreciated by many Pro-Life defenders. Pastors from churches came and spoke about why it is so relevant to defend the dignity of life as well as discuss the atrocities surrounding human trafficking that many do not wish to hear, but aware that it is the reality one must confront.
A previous Pro-Life “Day of Outage” occurred on Veteran’s Day, in three locations as well: Senator Loretta Weinberg’s office in Teaneck, Assemblywoman Huttle in Englewood, and Senator Greenstein in Cranbury. Those events were well-attended, but the movement against S-30303/ A-4848 is growing, and there was a significant increase in turn out this time around.
Pastors, grandparents, veterans, and teenagers came to speak out for life and to say enough with the blatant disregard to humanity. Pastor John Grove, of the Columbus Baptist Church in Burlington County, has been involved for 30 years in the Pro-Life movement. He retold his personal encounter with abortion. He informed the crowd how his wife, waiting in the hospital, was told that her baby would be stillborn. While waiting, another expecting mother, with a big belly, was wheeled next to Pastor Grove’s wife. To their horror, they heard the nurse indicate that the expecting mother, with the big belly, was set aside to have an abortion. “Something clicked in me. Here I am, having my first child be stillborn and right next to me another mother, ready to give birth, was going for an abortion”, recalls Pastor Grove.
“To state the unborn, (which is a pre-born from the minute the sperm joins embryo, to full development of nine months), that baby-to-be-born, is given no constitutional right under this bill, it’s the ultimate degradation towards respecting humanity,” added Rev. Quinlan.
We encourage everyone to call and email your legislators to oppose the S-3030/A-4848 bill and demand that public hearings be allowed. For more information on what you can do, visit New Jersey Right to Life at:
https://njrtl.org/legislation/
Or the Center for Garden State Families at:
https://www.gardenstatefamilies.org/post/reproductive-freedom-act-killing-black-and-brown-babies
https://www.gardenstatefamilies.org/abortionisnothealthcareopposes3030
"The United States is ranked as one of the worst countries in the world for human trafficking... The top three nations of origin for victims of human trafficking in 2018 were the United States, Mexico and the Philippines."
United States State Department
Aug 25, 2020
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