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Chairman DeKrey and
Members of the Committee, my name is Martin Wishnatsky. I am a resident
of Fargo and hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University.
I would like you to look at before and after photos of abortion.
[circulates photos to Committee].
Is the unborn child a
human being? Science and our own common sense say yes. God surrounds the
human person — formed in His own image — with the fiery injunction:
“Thou shalt not kill.” What God has joined together — the baby in the
womb — let not man put asunder.
How much time do we
have left before the judgment of God shall do to this nation what we
have done to his children in the womb? One year? Five years? One week?
One day?
Who knows what is about
to be unleashed in the Persian Gulf, and for what purpose? Is terror in
the womb coming out of the womb? Are we reaping what we have sown?
A man walking on the
ice in 50-degree weather hazards his life at every step. A nation, a
state that defies God’s command not to shed innocent blood inexorably
steps closer and closer to judgment with each innocent life it takes.
Are we willing to take
that risk? Do we have another 30 years to tempt God to destroy us for
our iniquity as he did the world before the Flood?
Is this not an age in
which a nuclear holocaust can destroy a nation in an hour — paying for
millions of lives with millions of lives? If God exacts for 40 million
lives, the living will envy the dead.
There are two solutions
for abortion: we outlaw it, or God deals with us over it. There is no
third alternative of continuing to sin and avoiding the penalty.
What is your
responsibility as a legislator? Representative Sandvig at Peter Crary’s
request has forced the issue: Shall we have abortion in North Dakota, or
shall we not? They are responding to the urgency of God on this matter.
They are a prophetic voice: repent or perish.
It is not the
abortionist, nor indeed even the Supreme Court, which shall bring the
wrath of God on America. It is the consent that we as citizens of this
state give to their acts and decrees by allowing these practices to
continue that will seal our judgment.
This is very
exactly-drawn legislation. It creates legal equivalency between the born
and the unborn. It treats the unborn exactly as the born. It erases the
line of demarcation between person and non-person. It ends the lethal
discrimination against our own brothers and sisters in the womb, and
applies to them the full protection of the law.
Under HB 1242,
deliberate killing of an unborn child is the same grade of crime as
intentional killing of a born person: first-degree murder, a Class AA
felony.
I can assure you that
this legislation satisfies God’s requirement for exempting North Dakota
from his judgment for the abortion holocaust — because it ends the
abortion holocaust in North Dakota, decisively and unequivocally.
This legislation does
not wait for the Supreme Court to end the holocaust. It ends it now —
from the Red River to the Montana border, from Canada to South Dakota.
This legislation calls
for courage on your part — for a depth of soul rarely required in the
legislative arena.
It is for little North
Dakota to set the standard, to plant the banner, to take the territory
back, and to redeem our souls from sure destruction. God is not mocked.
Abraham Lincoln said of the Civil War: “If it is God’s purpose to exact
on the battlefield every drop of blood shed by the slave master’s lash,
then we can only say: ‘True and righteous are thy judgments, O God.’”
And if the God who
changes not shall in this hour exact from America the price of 40
million dead, shall we not also say: “True and righteous are thy
judgments, O God”?
We can bury Roe v.
Wade today, or we can endorse it. We cannot do both. This is an
up-and-down vote on whether the crimes against humanity decreed by
Roe v. Wade shall continue in North Dakota. Do we want the abortion
holocaust or do we not? That is what you are voting on today.
HB 1242 will end the
abortion holocaust in North Dakota. We do not need the agreement of the
federal courts to do it. We can enforce it ourselves.
— February
12, 2003 |