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As soon as you make exceptions you've abandoned the natural law self-evident truth upon which this free republic was founded. And once you've destroyed the foundation, everything else is going to fall down. It's a certainty. You've given away every moral, constitutional, legal, philosophical and political argument against abortion, right up front. In other words, you've surrendered without a shot being fired, and assured that the daily killing of thousands of helpless children will continue right up until God's judgment on this abomination falls on our heads.

"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..." -- The Declaration of Independence
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." -- The Preamble, or Statement of Purpose, of the United States Constitution
"No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law." -- The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
"No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." -- The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
"The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a 'person' within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment." -- Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Roe vs. Wade, 1973
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." -- The Preamble, or Statement of Purpose, of the United States Constitution

Just to address something really quicky. The Constitution was established by "We the People of the United States." These were the original citizens of this country who declared their allegiance and renounced their former allegiances. This constitution was established for "ourselves and our Posterity," which means for the original citizens and the children of these citizens. It wasn't established for the original citizens and whoever happened to be passing through. It wasn't established for "ourselves and visiting scholars who have no intention of becoming citizens."

Article II, Section I refers to "natural born citizens" and "citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution." The latter is "ourselves" and the "former" is "our Posterity." Any other citizens are those who become naturalized under the authority of Congress. Once the parents are naturalized, then their subsequent would be born as natural born citizens, as that is the Posterity of citizens of the United States.