To: radicalamericannationalist; Hermann the Cherusker
Are you unable to read?
Hermann quotes the 14th Amendment in the post you replied to.
227 posted on
11/12/2004 12:26:18 PM PST by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
To: Poohbah
"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."
Yeah and I noticed that the word "unborn" isn't in the 14th Amendment. Nowhere to be found. While a person must be born or naturalized to be a citizen, this does not mean that to be a person one must be born. The equal protection clause says "person," not citizen and not "born person." The fact that the clause deliberately uses a different qualification from the Privileges and Immunities clause (citizen in the former, person in the latter) shows that the EP clause was designed to protect a broader population.
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