A Briefing for Governor Ron DeSantis

Office of the Governor
The Honorable Ron DeSantis
400 S. Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399

RE: A Plan for the Governor to Abolish Abortion in Florida

Dear Governor DeSantis,

Abortion is the murder of preborn human beings. The purpose of government, as outlined by both our founding documents and the word of God, is to protect life, liberty, and property. According to God’s Law, it is wrong to kill innocent human beings. According to the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, “Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” According to Article 1 Section 9 of the Florida Constitution, “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law…” Therefore, abortion is a violation of our highest laws and is unconstitutional.

We appeal to you, as the chief executive of the state of Florida, to abolish murder by abortion in our state. We believe you not only have the moral duty before God to immediately stop the shedding of innocent blood in our state, but also have constitutional authority and specific legal powers which would allow you to lead the movement to abolish abortion literally and fully in Florida.

As head of the executive branch, which functions independently of the legislative and judicial branches, you have as much right to act in accordance with your understanding of the constitution as do legislators and judges. You need not wait for a court’s permission to carry into action constitutional protections. When God’s law and our constitutions are disregarded by other magistrates, a governor’s duty is not to bow down to them, but to resist them and uphold our constitutions to protect innocent lives.

Your leadership is paramount. As chief executive, you need no further authorization than your oath of office and our constitutions to proceed with a plan to abolish abortion. Furthermore, your leadership through executive action could stop the bloodshed and inspire such actions across the union, saving countless lives.
This endeavor will not be easy. Going on the offensive will draw massive pressure and attacks from radical liberals and even some misguided “pro-life” powerhouses. But we must be faithful and trust God for the results.

You can be encouraged and emboldened that when Christians across the State hear that you are leading the charge to end this atrocity, they will rally to your aid. We will do everything within our power to support your leadership and action to abolish abortion in our State. Even more than that, for the support of this plan, “with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”

In conclusion, it is time for you to accept your God-given role in leading the modern-day abolition movement. Only chief executives have the civil authority and duty to immediately stop the bloodshed, thus driving the issue to a resolution and ending the genocide of abortion.

Presuppositions

The model plan outlined below presupposes that you agree with these premises:

1. 1.   Every human being, regardless of his stage of development, is intrinsically valuable simply because he is a human being made in the image of God.
   2.   A unique human being comes into existence once the conception process is complete.
   3.   Innocent human beings have a God-given right to life, so killing them is murder.
   4.   Abortion is the killing of an innocent human being and, therefore, murder.
   5.   The primary purpose of government is to protect God-given rights.
   6.   Per the Constitution’s guarantees of the right to life and equal protection of the laws recorded in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, abortion is unconstitutional and unlawful.
   7.   Per the Florida Constitution’s guarantee of the right to life recorded in Article 1 Section 9, abortion is unconstitutional and unlawful.
   8.  Those state statutes describing legal abortion conflict with higher laws. Not only are they immoral, but they are unconstitutional; therefore, they are null and void.
   9.   By granting that states may continue regulating abortion, rather than directing every state to criminalize all elective abortions, the Dobbs opinion of SCOTUS ignored the intrinsic rights to life and equal protection of the laws enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
   10.   Executives have a duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution regardless of how other officials ignore or lie about the Constitution.
   11.   Higher even than constitutions, all men everywhere have a transcendent and moral duty to disregard and, where possible, resist an order from a superior to allow mass murder.
   12.   SCOTUS opinions which sanction the practice of abortion, even in limited and regulated ways, function like orders from SCOTUS to the various and united states to permit mass murder. Therefore, magistrates of the various and united states have a transcendent moral obligation to ignore and, where possible, resist genocidal applications of SCOTUS opinions.
   13.   All law enforcement personnel have a duty to protect innocent human beings within their jurisdictions.
   14.   The governor of the state is the highest-ranking executive officer in the state.
   15.   The governor has a moral and legal duty to take executive action to protect and save innocent lives in his state.

A Sample Plan to Abolish Abortion Outlined

If you agree with the premises outlined above, then you should be open to adopting a strategic plan to abolish abortion in Florida. But first you must decide whether or not you are willing to abolish abortion. The entire proposition comes down to a battle of wills. No matter what else happens with statutory legislation or the courts, ultimately, you must be willing to execute abolition come what may. If you are unwilling, all other efforts are doomed to fail. This is the preeminent question. Abortion continues in Florida for as far as we can see until you or a future chief executive says, “No more!” If you are willing to enforce abolition, then we can continue together down steps along the lines of those outlined here. Regardless of the specific plan ultimately adopted, these are a few of the most important steps and powers for you to consider exercising:

1) Lead & Communicate. This is the most important role you can fill as an abolitionist leader. Our state is currently in the habit of abortion, a habit that can only be broken with decisive intervention. Your constant, clear rhetoric can break the habit and lead us in a new direction. You must communicate, communicate, communicate. Think “fireside chats.” Think of the way in which you handled the state’s Covid response early on with daily press releases and weekly messages and press conferences. Part of the messaging could be daily death counts and progress reports. You can open people’s minds to a full comprehension of the genocide around them, and create in them the deep feeling of the need to abolish abortion. You have the ability to shift the entire state’s priority from presidential politics to abolishing abortion. If it is your top priority, it will become the people’s top priority. Guiding the people’s thoughts and feelings with pro-active assurances, messaging, and teaching would help them follow where you lead.

2) Recruit Support. Leadership through communication goes beyond the people. You could hold preliminary private meetings with other governors who might be friendly to abolishing abortion at the same time as Florida so that we have strength and solidarity. Similarly, before launching a plan publicly, hold preliminary meetings with city, county, and state police to preselect officers who are committed to the plan and will stand their ground. Identify and communicate with sympathetic judges. Meet with church leaders to prepare them for what is coming and recruit their spiritual and moral support.

3) Launch. Once you have settled on a specific plan, start an all-out blitzkrieg communication and marketing campaign. Hold a press conference announcing the immediate abolition of abortion per the above premises and the executive oath of office. To prepare the people and set their expectations, you should:

• • Explain the entire plan from start to finish.
  • Announce the effective date of enforcement.
  • Detail the specific actions of the executive officers under your authority.
  • Assure the citizens that you are committed to moving forward.
  • Repeat the plan and talking points until the people understood and supported it. It is just like getting elected.

4) Lead the Legislature. Article III Section 3 of the Florida Constitution states: “The governor, by proclamation stating the purpose, may convene the legislature in special session during which only such legislative business may be transacted as is within the purview of the proclamation…” Governor, put the Legislature into special session and demand a bill of complete criminalization of abortion in state statute so that district attorneys can prosecute those who commit murder by abortion. This is not necessary in order to immediately stop the bloodshed, but it is critical to establish justice under the law and assist in prosecution. We recommend a bill crafted by the Foundation to Abolish Abortion (faa.life). If necessary, you may have to discipline an obstinate legislature. If they do not want to provide equal protection under the law, then you could veto other high-profile measures until they do. Remember, you are an ever-present supermajority in the Legislature.

5) Stop the Bloodshed. On the first practicable date, order officers under your command to descend upon all abortion death camps to set up barricades and prevent entry to any party other than the registered owner. Instruct all law enforcement personnel to stand their ground, even in the face of unconstitutional court orders which would certainly be forthcoming. Refuse to back down or remove police, no matter what, until properties are sold, converted, or relet. Article IV Section 1 of the Florida Constitution states that you are the “commander-in-chief of all military forces of the state…” and that you may “call out the militia to preserve the public peace, execute the laws of the state…” Furthermore, Title IV Chapter14 Section 01 grants you the authority to “employ as many persons as [you in your] discretion, may deem necessary to procure and secure protection to life, liberty, and property of the inhabitants of the state…”

6) Declare an Emergency. The wholesale slaughter of preborn humans at a rate of 84,052 per year at last count is a state of emergency. This ongoing violence ought to be officially declared a state of emergency, the definition of which is left to your discretion. By declaring a state of emergency, you activate an even broader scope of executive powers as outlined in Title IV Chapter 14 Sections 021-022 wherein you are granted extraordinary powers in time of emergency. You would be able to call upon any law enforcement agency, state or county, to carry out your orders. You would be able to order and direct each and every officer of the State Highway Patrol to do any acts or services that in your judgment are necessary under the circumstances. If that were not enough; if law enforcement officers were not getting the job done, you also have emergency powers “to order and direct any individual person, corporation, association, or group of persons to do any act which would in the Governor’s opinion prevent danger to life, limb, or property…” In other words, you could call out churches to back up executive officers. Also, “the Governor may order such individual person, corporation, association, or group of persons to refrain from doing any act or thing which would, in the Governor’s opinion, endanger life, limb, or property…and shall have full power by appropriate means to enforce such order or proclamation.” In other words, you could simply issue a cease and desist order to those seeking abortion and to abortion practitioners. Finally, this is your ultimate trump card which allows you to do just about anything in the face of an abortion genocide: “The Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to intervene in any situation where there exists violence, overt threats of violence to persons or property and take complete control thereof to prevent violence, or to quell violence or any disturbance or disorder which threatens the peace and good order of society.”

7) Prosecute. The governor could coordinate with the attorney general or district attorney to press charges and prosecute cases that arise from new evidence received after the effective date of abolition. The prosecutor could assign cases to a sympathetic judge who would not dismiss the case.

8) Activate Christians. Call upon Christians in Florida to practice pure and undefiled religion (James 1:27), assisting mothers and fathers who would have formerly sought abortion.

9) Reform Adoption & Foster Services. Direct the Legislature to remove legal barriers, restrictions, regulations, and costs to adopt. Currently, it is expensive and frustrating for middle-class Christians to practice James 1:27 properly.

Legally, you have the power to declare an emergency, prohibit the sale of abortifacient drugs, and shut down abortion death camps, and you have the power to enforce these orders. The ongoing genocide of the preborn is certainly a moral, constitutional, legal, and humanitarian emergency of epic proportions. It is high time to take the needed and necessary role in leading the modern day abolition movement. Only you have the civil authority and duty to immediately stop the bloodshed, which could drive the issue to a resolution and end the abortion genocide.

Possible Repercussions and Objections

Objection #1:  The courts will interfere
The main objection to moving forward with an executive-driven plan like the one outlined here is the negative response of the courts. What if the State Supreme Court attempts to stay the governor’s actions and overturn convictions? There are several steps that the governor and executives could take to prepare for this eventuality.
First, the Governor should arrange with the attorney general or district attorney to try the first test case before a sympathetic judge. Obtaining a headline-grabbing and attention-getting conviction would go a long way toward teaching the public that abortion really was no longer a legal option. Should a higher judge attempt to vacate the conviction, the executive branch could ignore the judge and continue to enforce the law. Anyone who ignores God and the Constitution should be ignored. Executive officers could continue to blockade, make arrests, and bring charges, even if certain judges refused to hear cases.
In addition, any statutory language used by the legislature to abolish abortion should include a new section of law along these lines: “Any judge or court of this state that purports to enjoin, stay, overrule, or void any provision of this act shall be deemed in the eyes of the Legislature to have demonstrated ‘a present unfitness to hold office’ by not properly interpreting this legislation, the Florida Constitution, and the U.S. Constitution and will be subject to discipline per Article 5 Section 12 of the Florida Constitution.”

Objection #2:  The people will not cooperate

Some claim that the people will not stand for the abolition of abortion. There may be violent demonstrations or other types of civil unrest. We strongly disagree. While there is no guarantee, based on what we know of human nature and what we have witnessed with emergency executive orders during the COVID years, the governor would likely be successful. But even if we assumed the worst, that the people would not go where the governor led, that would not mean it was the wrong thing to do. Let us examine some reasons for optimism.

First, it is axiomatic that collectively people conform. The prophets of old compared the people to sheep because people need to follow a leader, just like sheep follow a shepherd. Cultural currents already exist, sweeping people along. Leadership is the tiller that steers the boat in the current. Whoever is at the tiller determines what the mob does. We need righteous boat captains, shepherds, and governors. During the COVID years, executive shepherds issued orders that destroyed liberty, property, businesses, and ultimately lives, but, appropriate or not, moral or not, the people went right along with it. Those same executive shepherds could issue orders to abolish abortion, and the people would likewise go along. The time is now.

Second, people will acquiesce if they perceive that lives are at risk. They will vote for anything, do anything, follow anywhere, or allow anything, if they believe it will save lives, or if it is “for the children.” They clearly believed that about COVID. If a chief executive were courageous enough to proclaim the truth of the abortion genocide and declare it the emergency that it is, the people would believe the governor’s message. The time is now.

Third, people go along with just about anything if it does not affect them personally. “Oh, whatever… That doesn’t affect my house, my car, my cell phone, or my Netflix,” seems to be their attitude. Shutting down abortion death camps would not immediately affect enough people to cause dissent. Those who have participated at some level in the sin of abortion, and who are suffering the guilt and manifestations of physical, emotional, and spiritual death accompanying such sin, are not likely to rise up to prevent the abolition of abortion. The time is right now.

Fourth, executives need not fear the people’s reactions. It takes an extraordinarily high level of wicked behavior from a magistrate to initiate an impeachment trial, much less a conviction or civil unrest. The time is right now.

Fifth, we are in a time of radical political change and economic chaos. The dollar is inflating, and nations are at war. Heads are spinning, and the people are not sure what to think about their futures. Now is the time for governors to ease the people’s fears and shore up the foundations of society. And what is more foundational than respect for life and upholding the right to life? This would be firm footing at a time when the ground seems to be giving way. On top of all that, the people know that Roe v. Wade was overturned, but they do not fully understand the implications. Now is exactly the right time for governors across the union to tear down the altars, fire the false prophets and priests, and abolish child sacrifice in their States.

Ultimately, it will take a chief executive to abolish abortion, and if a governor is willing, there is nothing standing in his way—not the federal government, and not the people of his State. The lives of preborn humans are on the line, and the people will understand that if the governor communicates it clearly and with conviction. Abolishing abortion does not affect most people enough for them to oppose it in any meaningful way. And finally, the people’s acquiescence to executive authority with COVID has proven beyond reasonable doubt that the people will go along with the Governor’s leadership.