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To: Everybody; Theodore R.
No matter what the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Roe v. Wade in 1973 or in subsequent rulings, abortion is illegal and unconstitutional, and I will prove it to you in this column.

Joe, you only prove yourself wrong, by not addressing who is a person.

"Amendment V: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury,

A fiat prohibitional law decreeing early term abortion to be murder would violate a womans right to a grand jury indictment.

nor shall any person ------------- be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; ----- ."

Again, it is the pregnant woman, a legal person, whos rights would be violated, not those of an undeveloped child, -- not yet a viable person.

Clearly, the Fifth Amendment establishes that our posterity – those yet unborn – shall not be deprived of life without due process. Bingo!

Not so, it ~is~ clear that those unborn cannot be persons until viability. Till they are capable of being born.

The 14th Amendment:
"Section 1. 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."

"All persons born" ----------- "nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;"

Pregant women shall not be deprived of life or liberty.
Thus, - Joseph Farah proves nothing.

20 posted on 10/30/2003 1:55:55 PM PST by tpaine (I'm trying to be 'Mr Nice Guy', but Arnie won, & politics as usual lost. Yo!)
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To: tpaine
Pregant women shall not be deprived of life or liberty.

I bet the Thomas Paine of the time of the Constitution would be smart enough to know that a pregnant woman is carrying another person.

Especially in this day and age, there is no excuse.Only guilt, and unnatural affections.
24 posted on 11/01/2003 9:50:21 AM PST by Delphinium
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To: tpaine
Hello!

Your mindless ramblings once again pollute this thread. Go back to DU from whence you came.

Cute how you throw sophistry around as though it were equivalent to real thought.
35 posted on 11/01/2003 6:54:40 PM PST by ninenot (Democrats make mistakes. RINOs don't correct them.--Chesterton (adapted by Ninenot))
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