119 Reasons to oppose Amendment 3

God bless the Southern Baptists for Abolishing Abortion group. Here are some of their reasons. Click the link to read the rest. 

"38. Development cannot determine human worth. An eleven-week child is not less human than a thirteen-week child.
39. Size cannot determine human worth.
40. Dependency cannot determine human worth.

41. Disability cannot determine human worth.

42. Parentage cannot determine human worth.

43. The crime of a father cannot determine the rights of his child.

44. Political popularity cannot determine human worth.

45. The electorate does not create the right to life. Human rights come from God, not ballot boxes.

46. Popular sovereignty cannot transform injustice into justice. A majority has no rightful authority to authorize the intentional killing of innocent people.

47. Civil magistrates are ministers of justice under God (Rom. 13:1–4); they are not autonomous creators of morality.

48. God, not Missouri voters, determines whether murder is wrong.

49. Having only two choices on a ballot cannot make an unjust choice righteous.

50. Christians are not morally confined to whatever alternatives politicians place before them.

51. Christians can oppose Missouri’s current abortion-rights amendment and Amendment 3 simultaneously.

52. Voting against Amendment 3 does not mean approving the current constitutional regime.

53. A “no” vote on Amendment 3 does not mean the same thing as a “no” vote from Planned Parenthood.

54. Two parties can reject the same proposal for completely opposite reasons.

55. Planned Parenthood can oppose Amendment 3 because it protects too many children; abolitionists can oppose it because it protects too few.

56. Calling that “voting with the pro-aborts” obscures the actual disagreement.

57. Indeed, on Amendment 3’s exceptions, the yes position itself agrees with abortion advocates that some abortions should remain legal.

58. Both positions permit the killing of at least some children conceived in rape; they disagree about how many abortions should be legal, not whether that particular class receives equal protection.

59. Our position challenges the premise itself: no innocent child should be legally killable because of the circumstances of his conception.

60. Amendment 3 risks teaching Missourians that some innocent lives are less worthy of protection than others.

61. Law teaches. It communicates what conduct society considers wrongful and whose rights government considers worthy of protection.

62. A rape exception teaches that circumstances of conception can affect legal protection."