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To: mrsmith
The belief that the 14th Amendment protects the yet-to-be-born is historically unfounded, Constitutionally illogical, and unconservative.

Yours was pretty much the position of Justice Blackmun, the author of Roe vs. Wade. However, in the text of Roe, even he admitted that if the unborn are persons that they are protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.

By the way, you stand in opposition to Ronald Reagan's position on life. The Reagan plank in the Republican platform explicitly asserts the personhood of the unborn and their protection by the Fourteenth Amendment.

You do stand foursquare with Gerald R. Ford, though.

It's your position that is illogical. The Constitution itself states as its ultimate purpose the securing of the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves AND OUR POSTERITY.

The only way you can change that is to change the clear and simple meaning of words.

87 posted on 11/14/2008 1:14:12 PM PST by EternalVigilance ("Barack Obama is black like me only in the sense that we both have dark skin." - Alan Keyes)
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To: EternalVigilance

The plank said:
“The unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We therefore reaffirm our support for a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children. We oppose the use of public revenues for abortion and will eliminate funding for organizations which advocate or support abortion.” “
http://www.rnclife.org/reports/2008/spring/

The congress does have Constitutional authority to apply 14th amendment protections to the unborn if it wishes.

President Reagan dropped the claim that “the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children” in his noteworthy June 10, 2004, “Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation” http://www.nationalreview.com/document/reagan200406101030.asp


88 posted on 11/14/2008 1:49:35 PM PST by mrsmith
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