I posted here the idea that the Constitution actually does have a ban on abortion.
In the Preamble, it says "...and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."
I suggested that the "Blessings of Liberty" refers to rights granted from God (Blessings and Liberty being capitalized, and Liberty being one of three capitalized rights from the Declaration from our Creator), and "secure... our posterity" means for our children and their children.
How can we "secure" "Blessings" for "our posterity" if we allow "our posterity" to be aborted?
-PJ
The founders neither wrote abortion into or out of the Constitution. It was an unfortunate mistake.
We do indeed need to secure the blessings of Liberty to our posterity, and we do NEED ALL of our posterity to ensure the continuity of our country and civilization. Therefore, a Human Life Amendment is the thing to do.
You’ve got it exactly right.
In addition, the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments explicitly protect the life of every person, and require that all persons, in all the states, enjoy the equal protection of the laws.
Also, the Eight Amendment forbids cruel and unusual punishment, even for the guilty. The act of aborting a child is the commission of a brutally cruel and unusual murder of the innocent.
The Ninth Amendment acknowledges that the individual has God-given unalienable rights whether they are enumerated to anyone’s satisfaction in the Constitution or not.
And the Tenth Amendment makes it clear that all must stay within their lawful powers. There is NEVER any lawful state power to violate God-given, unalienable rights. To say there is is to deny the first principles of our nation’s founding, as found in America’s charter:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men...”
That is a brilliant observation.