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Let’s Get Back to

“Equality Before the Law”

 

Our Support for the Choose Life Now Initiative,

and the Need for an Abolition Bill

 

 

 

“A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,

but a just weight is His delight.”

Proverbs 11:1

 

 

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What was impartial has been made to show prejudice. Where there was equality, even if it was not adhered to, now there is inequality. What could have made an appeal to being under the blessing of God now bears the distinction of His severe disapproval. Righteousness has given way to yet more wickedness.

 

The Nebraska state Constitution has been corrupted through initiative measure 434, which is now article I, section 31. For almost 150 years, our Constitution required every person to be granted the equal protection of the laws. But this can hardly be said to be the case anymore. We remind our readers of constitutional attorney Bradley Pierce’s comments, that measure 434 “almost completely destroys” any argument that the existing equal protection clause in Nebraska’s Constitution should be interpreted to protect preborn babies in the first trimester, when the vast majority of abortions occur.

 

The most vulnerable, innocent people in our entire state, who are killed by the thousands every year, now have not only our state statutes condoning their deaths, but the Constitution as well. Almost all preborn children at risk of being murdered by their own mothers and fathers are condemned by I-31 as unworthy of protection, as disposable, as less than human.

 

This taint in our Constitution must be removed. The corruption must be purged. The blight must be expunged, and equal justice returned to Nebraska’s foundational legal document.

 

There is an effort under way to do precisely this.

 

 

Purifying our Constitution

 

The Choose Life Now initiative currently in circulation would remove the language added last year via measure 434. It would also replace it with language of its own. The petition reads as follows.

 

Article I, section 31, of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska shall be amended as shown:

 

I-31

 

Except when a woman seeks an abortion necessitated by a medical emergency or when the pregnancy results from sexual assault or incest, unborn children shall be protected from abortion in the second and third trimesters.

 

A preborn child is a person at every stage of development, beginning at fertilization. Wherever under Nebraska law the term “person” is used or implied, it shall include such a child.

 

By removing the current language, this initiative would eliminate the idea inherent in I-31 that the equal protection clause in our Constitution should not apply to all human beings. And by the language added in its place, it is made explicit that preborn children should be treated under the law just like any other person.

 

What this amendment would do is restore the unambiguous requirement of the equal protection of the laws back to our Constitution. It would remove from Nebraska’s foundational legal document a perversion of justice, which God hates (Deuteronomy 27:19; Proverbs 20:23), and replace it with impartiality, which He loves (Amos 5:15; Psalm 11:7). It would put our Constitution into a condition of once again being perfectly consistent with a bill to abolish abortion.

 

 

Change to our state statutes also needed

 

If the recently added I-31 in Nebraska’s Constitution can rightly be described as a taint and a corruption, how much more could the same be said of our state statutes which have regulated abortion for the past fifty years?

 

We need to make our Constitution impartial as it was before, but our state statutes have not been impartial for decades. They are rife with unjust laws that treat abortion as if it were a form of healthcare, rather than the murder of innocent, helpless human beings made in the image of God.

 

Despite the prejudice now in our state’s Constitution, it remains the obligation of our state senators to uphold not only the 14th Amendment to our federal Constitution, which they have sworn to do, but the higher Law of God as well (Deuteronomy 1:17; Proverbs 18:5). They have a duty to draft and pass legislation that applies the laws against murder equally to all human beings, without exception (Psalm 82:3–4). And we as represented citizens have a duty to plead with them to do so.

 

 

Onward with repentance and joy

 

As we endeavor to get back to the “equality before the law” of our state motto so long left in tatters, it is not difficult to see that in Nebraska, abolishing abortion has been made harder. With the passing of initiative measure 434, not only do we now have two bodies of law to amend instead of one, but the culture has been further catechized to believe that compromise with evil to the point of passing laws that God hates, is a means to success.

 

But this increase in the challenge that is before us also means that, when victory at last is attained, it will be all the sweeter.

 

Let us first remember that we must acknowledge to God any sin we have committed in being apathetic toward or complicit in the abortion holocaust. If we conceal our transgressions, in this matter or any other, we will not prosper (Proverbs 28:13).

 

God has put each one of us into the time and place we reside in history, and He has commanded us to do justice (Micah 6:8). As we strive to obey Him and seek justice and correct oppression (Isaiah 1:17), we know that ultimately, it is Christ who will bring forth the justice that we seek. And the Lord will not grow faint or be discouraged until justice is established (Isaiah 42:4). So why then should we?

 

Jesus went toward difficulty (John 18:4). Let us do the same.

 

And He did it with joy (Hebrews 12:2). Let us do likewise. May the joy of the Lord be our strength (Nehemiah 8:10), as we recognize that in Christ our labor is not in vain (1 Corinthians 15:58).

 

 

Support the Choose Life Now amendment

 

To help obtain the needed signatures for the Choose Life Now amendment to get on next year’s ballot, please go to ChooseLifeNow.net.

 

Note that only pen-and-ink signatures on printed petition forms are valid. Choose Life Now will mail you printed petition forms if you enter your address on their website.

 

By Nebraska law, in order to qualify for the 2026 ballot, signatures from at least 10% of the registered voters in the state are needed, with 2/5 of the counties in the state having at least 5% representation. Your help is needed for this petition to reach the required number of signatures!

 

Are you a member of a church? Please share this message with your church leaders and request that they promote the Choose Life Now initiative with their congregation. Are you a pastor? Would you please share this with those in your sphere of influence? In large part, the 434 initiative was passed because of people taking their cues from incrementalist pro-life organizations, rather than from the Scriptures. But we must return, “To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn” (Isaiah 8:20, ESV).

 

Please visit ChooseLifeNow.net today, and encourage others to do so as well. Let us restore to our Constitution the plain requirement of equal protection of the laws for all people by supporting the Choose Life Now amendment.

 

 

Ask your senator to sponsor a bill of abolition

 

Our senators are civil servants who have a great responsibility toward God and to their fellow man. They need to hear truth in love spoken to them, especially with regard to legalized child sacrifice. They need to be held accountable to follow — without delay! — the commands of the One who gave them their office (Daniel 2:21), and they need to be graciously warned away from what is evil and exhorted toward what is good.

 

A bill to abolish abortion, or an equal protection bill, would enact in state statutes the original intent of the equal protection clause in our state’s Constitution and the 14th Amendment to our federal Constitution. That is to say, it would apply the laws against murder equally to all people. This means that abortion would be criminalized as murder without exception or compromise.

 

No less than 122 state lawmakers sponsored or co-sponsored bills of equal protection across the country this year. Who will be the first in Nebraska?

 

We have an expert who has agreed to write the bill, once we can find a senator to sponsor it. Would you please ask your senator to sponsor a bill of equal protection?

 

Visit this link to find your senator.

 

And see this brief document for help in conversations with legislators.

 

 

Post-Roe Reformation: What Now?

 

To learn more about abolishing abortion, we invite you to attend the Post-Roe Reformation conference in Omaha coming up September 26th and 27th. For details and to register, visit this link. And tell a friend! We have four excellent speakers lined up, one of whom has a YouTube channel with millions of views. It’s going to be a great conference!

 

Also, if you have not signed the Choose Life Now amendment by then, there will be opportunity to do so at the conference.

 

 

Dive deeper

 

We have written about initiative measure 434 at some length. Readers wanting to know more can peruse our previous content on the subject:

• Partiality Enshrined: Nebraska’s New Unequal Constitution
• Don’t Support Wicked Laws
• Questions for Nate Grasz and Nebraska Family Alliance

• Nebraska Family Alliance’s Anti-Family Initiative