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To: EternalVigilance

Just because an unborn person is legally recognized as such doesn’t mean that his or her individual rights absolutely trump the mother’s in all circumstances whatsoever.

But at the very least, such a person deserves at least the level of legal due process afforded any other person before being removed from life support.


5 posted on 02/18/2009 5:49:11 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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Just because an unborn person is legally recognized as such doesn’t mean that his or her individual rights absolutely trump the mother’s in all circumstances whatsoever.
This is true.

And just because something is wrong does not mean we should make it illegal or stop it. The genocide in Rwanda is wrong (I have not heard God tell the world that He ordered it) but that does not mean we should send the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force to stop it.
17 posted on 02/18/2009 6:31:57 AM PST by dbz77
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"Just because an unborn person is legally recognized as such doesn’t mean that his or her individual rights absolutely trump the mother’s in all circumstances whatsoever"

I agree. In the small cases where a pregnant mothers life is at stake it should be up to her to make that terrible choice between her and her unborn child. Not a decision I would want to make. This does happen as I personnally know of someone who had to make this choice. This woman chose for the child and she ended up dying.
26 posted on 02/18/2009 8:01:39 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden (I)
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