An unborn baby IS a person in the case of Connor "in the eyes of common law", BUT if Laci Peterson decided the week before she died to abort Connor, somehow he would then NOT be a person.
So if I understand this correctly an unborn baby IS WHATEVER his mother and some black robed monkeys say he is.
Poohbah, could you please enlighten me again as how this can be.
And since you have been so helpful in enlightening me I will share this with you. Perhaps you will find it enlightening as well:
72. Disregard for the right to life, precisely because it leads to the killing of the person whom society exists to serve, is what most directly conflicts with the possibility of achieving the common good. Consequently, a civil law authorizing abortion or euthanasia ceases by that very fact to be a true, morally binding civil law.
73. Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection. From the very beginnings of the Church, the apostolic preaching reminded Christians of their duty to obey legitimately constituted public authorities (cf. Rom 13:1-7; 1 Pet 2:13-14), but at the same time it firmly warned that "we must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29). In the Old Testament, precisely in regard to threats against life, we find a significant example of resistance to the unjust command of those in authority. After Pharaoh ordered the killing of all newborn males, the Hebrew midwives refused. "They did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live" (Ex 1:17). But the ultimate reason for their action should be noted: "the midwives feared God" (ibid.). It is precisely from obedience to God—to whom alone is due that fear which is acknowledgment of his absolute sovereignty—that the strength and the courage to resist unjust human laws are born. It is the strength and the courage of those prepared even to be imprisoned or put to the sword, in the certainty that this is what makes for "the endurance and faith of the saints" (Rev 13:10).
In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to "take part in a propaganda campaign in favour of such a law, or vote for it".
Pope John Paul II-- Evangelium Vitae, (The Gospel of Life ) 1995
What part of "the attorney general doesn't write laws" don't you understand?
It is one hell of a stretch of the law to conclude that all abortion is thus instantly prosecutable as murder.
The law does not make a lot of sense. But nonsensical laws are not a priori unconstitutional.
Are you aware of the "Laci and Connor Law" signed by President Bush?
So then, Christians should not have abortions.
It is a heartening ruling, Cpforlife, no doubt.
Let's hope it works to erode the "right" for Claimants to what is and is not a pre-born person which Carhart upholds.
It is absurd in the extreme that the likes of Edwards can reap a contingency for impersonating an Unborn in order to ante up the trial court kitty yet defend absolutely the Non-Personhood of that same child where concerns the mother-only absolute right to homicide.