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To: wideawake
Abortion was universally considered an abomination in the late 1700s.

Yes, but even then it up to each state to pass laws against abortion. You want a national law prohibiting abortion like there is a national law allowing abortion instead of letting people choose. You have to show why abortion is up to the federal goverment instead of the state when other crimes such as murder are not.

13 posted on 12/01/2005 7:42:38 AM PST by LWalk18
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To: LWalk18
You have to show why abortion is up to the federal goverment instead of the state when other crimes such as murder are not.

No I don't.

The unborn are human beings like anyone else and like anyone else the Constitution was intended to promote their welfare and secure to them the liberties any other person enjoys.

The Constitution not only does not specifically outlaw the murder of the unborn but it does not specifically outlaw murder of any kind.

Are we to presume that any individual state can decriminalize all forms of murder?

Of course not.

The Tenth Amendment clearly states that rights not specifically enumerated in the Constitution shall not disparage rights generally retained by the people.

i would argue that the people generally retain the right not be murdered.

14 posted on 12/01/2005 7:52:32 AM PST by wideawake
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