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To: sickoflibs

No. If you believe that an unborn child is indeed a human being, then they are deserving of constitutional protections. We can leave it up to the states how they want to punish the crime of abortion. The states all prosecute murder, for it is understood that all citizens have a constitutional right to their life. IOW, a state cannot decide that murder is OK if you are a homeless drunk. Or retarded. Or a certain minority. Or a certain age (except pre-born).

This has nothing to do with Bush. Bush didn’t push for ‘life at conception’ legislation nor did he tout an amendment remedy. Either an unborn child is a person or he isn’t


43 posted on 01/19/2011 9:45:02 AM PST by pissant ((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
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To: pissant
RE :”No. If you believe that an unborn child is indeed a human being, then they are deserving of constitutional protections

You are completely misreading the US constitution as Democrats and many Republicans do. The US constitution protects you FROM the government, NOT from your mother. It is the state's job to protect you from your parents, or anyone else. That is why states made the murder and abortion laws for most of US history. The 1960s civil rights act has some provisions that should have been ruled unconstitutional and would of been 50 years earlier, primarily regarding private businesses.

The expansive view of US constitutional protections, that it protects everybody from everybody, is how we get the government taking businesses and property and giving it to others.

Palin is growing on me the last few comments.

44 posted on 01/19/2011 10:02:10 AM PST by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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