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To: nmh

IMHO, the right way to address abortion at the federal level is to recognize unborn children as people. Then state laws against homicide are effective for those who kill these defenseless kids.

This is inherently how slavery was handled - the US quit pretending black folk were only 3/5ths human.


17 posted on 11/19/2007 5:45:52 AM PST by Manfred the Wonder Dawg (Test ALL things, hold to that which is True.)
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To: Manfred the Wonder Dawg
the US quit pretending black folk were only 3/5ths human.

You do understand that the "3/5 clause" was there specifically to limit the power of the slave states, right? That is, it wasn't that the framers believed black folk were less human, but rather that they didn't want the electoral power of slave states to be buttressed by counting population that weren't even treated as full citizens.

24 posted on 11/19/2007 5:59:07 AM PST by kevkrom ("Should government be doing this? And if so, then at what level of government?" - FDT)
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To: Manfred the Wonder Dawg
Not all states will make abortion ILLEGAL and you know it.
And that is the problem.

Slavery was made illegal:

Amendment XIII
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

It’s time to make abortion explicitedly ILLEGAL as well. It should be UNDERSTOOD that it MURDER should NEVER be legalized as abortion ... so it’s time to recognize abortion for what it is and make it ILLEGAL to murder an UNborn person or one about to be born.

31 posted on 11/19/2007 6:07:23 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: Manfred the Wonder Dawg

More disinformation. Blacks were only defined as 3/5th to apportion representation in Congress after the Revolutionary War and enumeration of taxes. It had NOTHING to do with their status or not as citizens.

You should study a bit more history of the real kind, not the revisionist kind.


84 posted on 11/19/2007 7:36:35 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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