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To: EternalVigilance
"nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; "
Do you believe in the equal protection of the laws?

If a fetus is a person then so is a child. So do you believe that a child can be deprived of the right to vote?

46 posted on 06/17/2007 10:30:10 PM PDT by Dan Evans
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To: Dan Evans
If a fetus is a person then so is a child. So do you believe that a child can be deprived of the right to vote?

You're confusing civil rights with inalienable rights.

The inalienable rights to life, liberty and private property are God-given, and cannot rightly be taken by anyone. That is the core principle that America is built on.

You can't kill a child. You can't make a slave of a child. And you can't steal the property of a child. Why is that so hard to understand? The founders called this fact "self-evident." Have conservatives fallen so far that they can't even see what the founders thought was so obvious that it didn't even require proof?

50 posted on 06/17/2007 10:34:42 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("You will have your bipartisanship." - Fred Thompson, May 4, 2007)
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To: Dan Evans

“If a fetus is a person then so is a child. So do you believe that a child can be deprived of the right to vote?”

Several problems with that statement. A child doesn’t have a right to vote. Voting is a privilege anyway. Only adult American citizens have that privilege. It has nothing to do with whether or not we should be murdering either children or unborn children, or illegal aliens for that matter (though I think they should be sent home, they should not be murdered).

The courts have consistently held that there may be rational distinctions between people: those who can vote, those who can practice medicine (have a license) and so forth. It is rational to say that only adult American citizens can vote. But this doesn’t mean that anybody else can be axe-murdered. The first and foremost duty of government is to protect self-evident, and unalienable rights. And the foremost of that is the right to life. Equal protection means that no state can deprive the unborn baby of life without due process of law. Last I looked, nobody was giving the unborn baby any due process whatsoever. The only exception is the justification statute, that gives the mother a right to an abortion to preserve her own life, but ONLY IF she cannot save the baby’s life, too.


206 posted on 06/19/2007 8:38:00 PM PDT by PatGoltz (http://www.seghea.com/emails/terrorism.html http://www.seghea.com/emails/iraq.html)
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