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To: sourcery
The Federal government has no Consitutional authority to criminalize abortion.

They certainly do, if the child in the womb is a PERSON.

Do you think a child in the womb is a person?

10 posted on 06/17/2007 9:32:11 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("You will have your bipartisanship." - Fred Thompson, May 4, 2007)
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To: EternalVigilance

Actually, they don’t. And this is the whole basis of the idea of state’s rights. The idea that, as this book that came out in the 80’s laid out, we’re not one nation per se, but rather a collection of nations united into the U.S.A.

The key principle of state’s rights is this, if you don’t like the laws in your state, you can move to a state where the laws and government fit your values. There can’t be a national standard because actually, we don’t have a national value other than patriotism. What we believe is usually determined by where we grow up and what culture we grow up in.

All repealing Roe does is send it back to the states. My state will outlaw abortion as soon as Roe is repealed. California probably won’t. That is what makes America work. We are 50 independent and self-governing states united together for common defense and economic policy.


19 posted on 06/17/2007 9:47:43 PM PDT by AzaleaCity5691
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To: EternalVigilance
They certainly do, if the child in the womb is a PERSON.

Except where there is no State (e.g, the District of Columbia,) it's State law that makes murder a crime, not Federal law. That's not an accident.

20 posted on 06/17/2007 9:50:53 PM PDT by sourcery (Double Feature: "The Amnestyville Horror" and "Kill the Bill, Vol. 2")
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