{"id":227493,"date":"2020-07-18T18:47:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T23:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=227493"},"modified":"2020-07-18T13:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T18:46:17","slug":"super-bowl-champion-abortion-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/super-bowl-champion-abortion-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl Champion: &#8216;It&#8217;s insane that abortion is legal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>In a new video released by Live Action, former Kansas Chiefs punter Dustin Colquitt is speaking out against abortion &#8212; specifically the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/breaking-kansas-supreme-court-declares-right-abortion-state-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decision<\/a> of the Kansas Supreme Court to erroneously find a right to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abortionprocedures.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a> in the state constitution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[L]ast year, the state Supreme Court\u00a0decided for the very first time in 160 years, that there&#8217;s a fundamental right to abortion,&#8221; Colquitt said. &#8220;And even though they completely invented this, it&#8217;s a decision that threatens all of our progress in protecting the preborn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v7.0\" nonce=\"u98qI7Mp\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\/videos\/212085566720957\/\" data-width=\"1000\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\/videos\/212085566720957\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\/videos\/212085566720957\/\">Super Bowl Champion: It&#039;s Insane Abortion Is Legal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remarkable! Former Kansas City Chiefs player Dustin Colquitt urges his state\u2014and our nation\u2014to end abortion and defend our most vulnerable American children.&quot;I&#039;m raising my voice on behalf of the voiceless, and I invite you to do the same.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\/\">Live Action<\/a> on Friday, July 17, 2020<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Colquitt, who played for the Chiefs for 15 years and won the Super Bowl in February 2020, said he loves living in the state with his young family, but he also &#8220;fears what&#8217;s happening&#8221; there with abortion. &#8220;Previously, we&#8217;d made lots of progress to protect our women and our children, specifically our children in the womb,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And as a father of five children myself, I think it&#8217;s insane that killing babies through abortion is legal at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Colquitt explained that the annual number of abortions in Kansas has declined by an astounding 44% in the last 20 years. Insurance plans in the state don&#8217;t cover abortions, and taxpayer dollars do not fund the abortion industry within the state either. Five years ago, Kansas became the first state to ban cruel and inhumane <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-done-second-trimester-de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">D&amp;E dismemberment abortions<\/a>, in which preborn children, capable of feeling pain, are killed when their limbs are ripped from their bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by the state Supreme Court threatens to undo the good work that has been done to help women and save babies, and will have long-term, far-reaching consequences. &#8220;This means that we could be looking at tax-funded, insurance-funded abortions for all nine months, for any reason, on girls of any age,&#8221; Colquitt explained. &#8220;And that could be the case in Kansas even if <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> is overturned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nfl-player-almost-aborted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Former NFL player was almost aborted: \u2018That\u2019s why I oppose abortion\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because if <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> is overturned, the decision on whether or not abortion is legal will return to the states. Since Kansas now claims abortion is a right given in the state constitution, abortion would remain legal there, regardless of the overturning of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and since it is considered a right, it would be limitless &#8212; no restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>As the father of four sons and one daughter, Colquitt said it &#8220;horrifies&#8221; him that the abortion industry could &#8220;prey&#8221; on his daughter one day, committing an abortion on her using coercion, and he and his wife would never know about it. &#8220;This is not who the people of Kansas are,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the state Supreme Court&#8217;s failure to protect the &#8220;equal and inalienable natural rights&#8221; of &#8220;all men&#8221; as they claim they are doing, Colquitt is urging others to speak out with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m raising my voice on behalf of the voiceless, and I invite you to do the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and 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