[EternalVigilance]

One thing about Keyes running that would be interesting, is to watch to see if he expands his repertoire, you know beyond stating in six different ways that abortion violates the Declaration of Independence. Sorry, but I call them as I see them.

Question for you:

Does abortion violate the Declaration of Indendence?

How about that thing in the Bill of Rights about no person being deprived of life or property without due process?

Hello, by the way.

[Torie]

Hi EV. I hope this finds you well.

The first answer is that the Declaration is not law, except as SCOTUS chooses to decide in animates some provision in the Constitution. In any event, when the Declaration was penned by Jefferson, he was not thinking about fetuses, indeed he wasn't thinking about anybody but White males as to most matters, and blacks as to almost no matters. As to the latter, one must assume that a fetus under the Constitution is deemed to be a person. That simply isn't "viable." Keyes should spend more time arguing the merits of what is a life, etc, and less about his hopeless and errant crusade for the application of the silver legal bullet. Not that Keyes takes any of my advice. :)