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To: Mtner77

Why are you laughing? Palin and the Pauls have been primary proponents of the idea that the unalienable right to life can be left up to the states to decide.

This is the exact moral equivalent of the Stephen A. Douglas Democrat position on slavery in the 1850s, and the exact same position that Gerald R. Ford took on abortion in the 1970s.

It is one hundred and eighty degrees opposite of the Ronald Reagan personhood of the child, Fourteenth Amendment position; a plank that still resides in the Republican platform to this day.


132 posted on 02/22/2011 12:22:24 AM PST by EternalVigilance (No President who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. - JK Polk)
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“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...” — The Declaration of Independence

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” — The Preamble, or Statement of Purpose, of the United States Constitution

“No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.” — The Fifth Amendment

“No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” — The Fourteenth Amendment

“The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a ‘person’ within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well known facts of fetal development. 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

“You shall not murder.” — Exodus 20:13

“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.” — Thomas Jefferson

Good night.


133 posted on 02/22/2011 12:35:07 AM PST by EternalVigilance (No President who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. - JK Polk)
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To: EternalVigilance
Yo EternalDipstick: Overturning Roe has been a cornerstone of conservative activism since its inception.

Typing yourself into a frenzy won't change it. Go back to sleep.

150 posted on 02/22/2011 1:07:12 AM PST by Chunga (Go, Sarah, GO!! - Jim Robinson)
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