The following comes from an August 20 story by Operation Rescue on LifeSiteNews.com.
The Albuquerque City Clerk has announced that the Albuquerque Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance will not be on the October 8 ballot. The Clerk’s office has not yet had time to verify enough signatures to trigger a public vote on the proposal, which was submitted for approval by voters via a city-wide legislative petition.
The Albuquerque Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortion after 20 week within the city limits, gathered thousands more signatures in less time than other petition efforts that have been directly adopted by the city council citing overwhelming public support.
Since women from all over the U.S. travel to Albuquerque for late-term abortions, this matter is a national concern.
Organizers submitted a record 27,000 signatures of Albuquerque registered voters in just 20 days in support of the late-term abortion ban in a community that is the site of the largest late-term abortion clinic in the country. So far the clerk’s office has verified more than 9,000 of the 12,000 signatures needed. Once the signatures are verified, a special election will be called.
Critics complain that a special election will cost the city “hundreds of thousands of dollars.” However, Tara Shaver, of Project Defending Life, who is spokesperson for the petition effort, has a solution that will save the city money.
“We are confident it will pass on a special election ballot. However, in order to save the city money we will ask that the City Councilors adopt the ordinance. The people have spoken – 27,000 in 20 days,” said Shaver.
The city council has the authority to adopt the ordinance without a vote of the city’s residents, as they have for other issues that have been submitted via legislative petition.
“It the city wants to be consistent, it will save the taxpayers the cost of a special election by approving this late-term abortion ban since it shows an even wider support among Albuquerque citizens than other measures directly adopted by the council,” said Cheryl Sullenger, senior policy advisor for Operation Rescue. “It’s time for elected representatives on the council to heed the voice of the people.”
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Agreed, absolutely! My husband’s sister and her family, good Christians all, live in Albuquerque and support this cleaning up of their otherwise lovely community where too many innocent babies have been murdered with complicity. How does this differ from organized crime other than this widespread, outrageous, murderous crime against humanity has been made legal in our beautiful land, for which I cry. May God forgive them, they know exactly what they have been doing for years, those murderers of babies who are most among the still living who seem most in need of God’s mercy. If they never wake up and become sincerely contrite, I do believe vengeance shall be God’s. In heaven we shall be in the presence of these innocents, but it will take miracles – of conversion – for us ever to look upon the faces of these murderers of our most precious little, still growing in their mother’s wombs, American babies. The thought of adult Americans actually being paid to murder babies should be unimaginable, not legal and laudable to implement without repercussion, at least on this side of heaven. All of God’s children should be safe in their mother’s wombs!!
“The Clerk’s office has not yet had time to verify enough signatures to trigger a public vote on the proposal, which was submitted for approval by voters via a city-wide legislative petition.” What would you like to bet that if proposal would have been something in favor of people with same sex attraction that the clerk’s office would have found the time to verify the signatures.
I have met Bud and Tara Shaver when I was in Albuquerque for the Catholic Media Meeting. If anyone can carry this off it is them. Pray for them.
Viva Cristo Rey!
May God have mercy on your poor soul,
Kenneth M. Fisher
That’s wonderful to know, Kenneth. Thanks for this! I’m thinking you must be our Official California Roving Ambassador from Southern California, as you seem to know virtually everybody who is anybody among Catholic public personalities! I think you should write a book, Kenneth, as it would be very interesting to know even a fraction of all the people, places and things you’ve come to know in your life!
It should be said that Kenneth Fisher is indeed a Catholic – no further description should be necessary. You cannot pigeon hole him as a conservative, traditionalist or any other name, He follows what Christ taught and will hold anyone’s feet to the fire that openly dissents from the Church’s teaching including clergy and the laity. He has always stood up for the most vulnerable in our society. It is a privilege to know him.
God Bless,
Gerard