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Harvard Law Journal Concludes Unborn Babies Have Constitutional Rights
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| May 30, 2017
| Cortney O'Brien
Posted on 05/31/2017 9:21:02 PM PDT by boatbums
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I recall Obama, when he was campaigning for the presidency, stated that agreeing to the statement that the unborn baby is a person was "outside his paygrade". Yet, he claimed he was a "constitutional scholar" and professor.
The justices that decided for abortion "rights", refused to even consider that the unborn child was entitled to the right to life and Blackmun stated the science wasn't settled on that question. What a cop-out!
Now, 45 years and 50+ MILLION abortions later, will the Supreme Court finally get around to addressing the science that the human life begins at fertilization - something that they HAVE known for much longer than that - and do what is right and just or will they continue to succumb to the pressure of society that demands killing unborn children is a right ABOVE the child's right to live?
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posted on
05/31/2017 9:21:02 PM PDT
by
boatbums
To: boatbums
I wonder IF the souls of the unborn pass by ol Harry Blackmun when they return to the Maker?
To: boatbums
I have used that argument with abortion advocates. If life does not begin at conception, what physical act happens after conception that starts the baby’s life?
They never have an answer.
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posted on
05/31/2017 9:32:53 PM PDT
by
joshua c
(To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
To: boatbums
Forget the law. The bottom line in abortion is that a woman has decided to kill her own conception. A pre born human life is killed. The ramifications for the woman, the culture and the human species are profound and terrible. Those who mold their conscience to acquiesce to this unrestricted killing of human life are capable of justifying or committing any vile action. A “pro choice” person should never be trusted in any matter of importance.
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posted on
05/31/2017 9:32:56 PM PDT
by
allendale
(.)
To: Coleus; nickcarraway; narses; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; TenthAmendmentChampion; ...
PreBorn lives matter
Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.
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posted on
05/31/2017 9:47:01 PM PDT
by
cpforlife.org
(President Trump, Make Government Constitutional Again! MGCA 2 MAGA!)
To: boatbums
Progressive liberals have no concept biological reality.
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posted on
05/31/2017 9:58:06 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
To: boatbums
**Using this logic, Craddock notes, the Supreme Court justices were flawed in their 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, which granted the right to abortion. When he wrote the majority opinion, Justice Harry Blackmun failed to properly assess the word person as it was applied in 1868, Craddock argues. **
Wow! We’ll have to watch and see what happens.
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posted on
05/31/2017 9:59:26 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: Slyfox
That’s why they’re champions of death, unless its their own.
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:01:10 PM PDT
by
onedoug
(FREE KEKISTAN!)
To: joshua c
They never have an answer. The Personhood Fairy touches the bunch of cells with her magic wand, making the cells glow briefly. After that the cells are a person.
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:07:10 PM PDT
by
TChad
(Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
To: joshua c
They never have an answer because they know the truth will make their argument sound ridiculous. When the egg merges with the sperm cell, a brand new, never existed before, human life begins. All that is needed from that moment on is contained within the DNA of that fertilized egg with the exception of nutrients and time. If you could take that zygote -
A zygote, is a eukaryotic cell formed by a fertilization event between two gametes. The zygote's genome is a combination of the DNA in each gamete, and contains all of the genetic information necessary to form a new individual. In multicellular organisms, the zygote is the earliest developmental stage.
- and transplant it from the mother into another woman's uterus, it would STILL be the offspring of the original mother and father. It is truly a miraculous thing!
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:09:22 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.)
To: Just mythoughts
I think they are spared from that horror but I hope he sees them.
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:10:24 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.)
To: allendale
I won't argue with that! If someone cannot comprehend that the right to life supersedes ALL other rights, then how can they be trusted to make decisions that affect all our lives?
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:12:57 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.)
To: boatbums
Well, the ‘rich’ man from ill-gotten gains could certainly see Lazarus in Abraham's bosom ... so perhaps these that were judged to be without ‘rights’ might not need to be reminded of the evil they were put through... I cannot say for sure, other than there will be an accounting.. someday...
To: Salvation
It will take people willing to fight for what is right and not back down from all the fiery darts that will be shot at them from all sides. What I cannot understand is how ANYONE who claims to be a believer in God can excuse, ignore or rationalize the wholesale slaughter of innocent human lives. It takes an insipid kind of blindness.
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:20:26 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.)
To: boatbums; All
When he wrote the majority opinion, Justice Harry Blackmun failed to properly assess the word person as it was applied in 1868, Craddock argues. Not quite. Harry Blackmun purposely ignored the word person as it was applied in 1868. Blackmun simply wanted to "legalize" the killing of children before birth and did not care about the truth or the consequences.
My hope and prayer is that President Trump will appoint enough justices to SCOTUS to overturn Roe. And for a bigger miracle: one day a pro-life amendment to the COTUS.
Here's Bork:
Blackmun invented a right to abortion....Roe had nothing whatever to do with constitutional interpretation. The utter emptiness of the opinion has been demonstrated time and again, but that, too, is irrelevant. The decision and its later reaffirmations simply enforce the cultural prejudices of a particular class in American society, nothing more and nothing less. For that reason, Roe is impervious to logical or historical argument; it is what some people, including a majority of the Justices, want, and that is that.
Roe should be overruled and the issue of abortion returned to the moral sense and the democratic choice of the American people. Abortions are killings by private persons. Science and rational demonstration prove that a human exists from the moment of conception. Scalia is quite right that the Constitution has nothing to say about abortion.
--Robert H. Bork
Constitutional Persons: An Exchange on Abortion
Robert H. Bork is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:22:25 PM PDT
by
cpforlife.org
(President Trump, Make Government Constitutional Again! MGCA 2 MAGA!)
To: TChad
The Personhood Fairy touches the bunch of cells with her magic wand, making the cells glow briefly. After that the cells are a person. Must be. Then I guess that Personhood Fairy is an "indian giver" who will take BACK the personhood glow if the baby is marked for death and "it's" not a person anymore. Odd how excited parents-to-be are when they see the first ultrasound of their "baby" but, if an abortion is going to happen, it's now just a "fetus", "blob of tissue", "the products of conception", "the pregnancy" or any other euphemisms they can conjure up. It's pretty sad.
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:29:11 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.)
To: cpforlife.org
My hope and prayer is that President Trump will appoint enough justices to SCOTUS to overturn Roe. And for a bigger miracle: one day a pro-life amendment to the COTUS. That is my prayer as well. I also pray that one day abortion won't even HAVE TO be outlawed, because it will be UNTHINKABLE.
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:38:17 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.)
To: cpforlife.org
Robert Bork would have made such an excellent Supreme Court Justice!
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:41:03 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(Authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.)
To: boatbums
It's pretty sad. And shockingly dishonest and brutal.
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:50:41 PM PDT
by
TChad
(Propagandists should not be treated like journalists.)
To: boatbums
Exactly!
The thing that amazes me is how some sort of right to a woman’s body in her convenience and excuse from responsibility with what she did with her body trumps the right to life of the baby that results.
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posted on
05/31/2017 10:50:45 PM PDT
by
Wildbill22
( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abramsp)
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