To: Swordfished; fetal heart beats by 21st day
Back to your statement about the Constitution, though, where is this right to kill innocent human beings in the US Constitution?
You frame the issue so that your position is unquestionable. It isn't so simple. This isn't Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia where innocent people are picked at will and murdered.
YOU were the one who said originally in post #33
and I applaud Obama on his new opinion Congresss role in the Schiavo case, which is based on constitutional law. (emphasis mine)
Both of us are asking you to back it up.
78 posted on
02/28/2008 1:51:26 AM PST by
dbehsman
(NRA Life Member and loving every minute of it!)
To: dbehsman
U.S. Constitution - Amendment 5 - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. U.S. Constitution - Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights:
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
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