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To: CodeToad

It’s an incremental process. The same way we got to where we are today.

The first step is getting laws on the books that recognize arbitrary termination of a pregnancy is wrong, even if it is at 20 weeks. Then you move on to the next step.

Going after the whole pie hasn’t worked; this time the activists are trying the “one piece at a time” approach.

After 40 years of setbacks, the pro-life movement needs some wins, no matter how small they may seem.

IMO.


20 posted on 07/07/2013 6:28:31 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Bratch
It’s an incremental process. The same way we got to where we are today. The first step is getting laws on the books that recognize arbitrary termination of a pregnancy is wrong, even if it is at 20 weeks. Then you move on to the next step. Going after the whole pie hasn’t worked; this time the activists are trying the “one piece at a time” approach. After 40 years of setbacks, the pro-life movement needs some wins, no matter how small they may seem. IMO.

Your post just doesn't bear with reality. We've seen these sorts of morally and constitutionally compromised bills for forty years. NRTL will do anything except face the core of the matter: the self-evident personhood of the child and the required equal protection that our Constitution absolutely demands.

These bills sacrifice every moral, constitutional and legal argument against abortion. They are a surrender, right up front, every single time.

"The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a 'person' within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment...If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment."

-- Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Roe vs. Wade, 1973

23 posted on 07/07/2013 6:39:09 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Party - 'We're partisans only for principle.' www.SelfGovernment.US)
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To: Bratch
The first step is getting laws on the books that recognize arbitrary termination of a pregnancy is wrong, even if it is at 20 weeks. Then you move on to the next step.

That doesn't make any sense. These lawless "laws" actually grant explicit "legal" permission to kill certain disfavored classifications of human persons. There is no next step after that. You've destroyed the foundations for law in America at that point.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."

24 posted on 07/07/2013 6:43:04 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (America's Party - 'We're partisans only for principle.' www.SelfGovernment.US)
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