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To: EternalVigilance

I replied to a post saying that we should treat the unborn “like any other citizen”.

The unborn are not citizens.


25 posted on 02/25/2011 11:56:48 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream
That's correct.

As I said, they are persons.

This is an explicit distinction made in Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment.

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; 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."

Citizens have privileges and immunities that non-citizen persons do not have. But all persons within every jurisdiction have God-given unalienable rights which must be protected -- citizen and non-citizen alike.

26 posted on 02/25/2011 12:04:16 PM PST by EternalVigilance (But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, a universal license to be good. -- Hartley Coleridge)
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