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To: Arthur McGowan
Your argument aren't working because the prmise just isn't credible.

When the Fourteenth Amendment was passed, abortion was legal in some states, and illegal in others. After it was ratified abortion continued to be illegal in some states, and legal in others, and it stayed that way until Roe v Wade.

You want me to believe that the people who wrote and ratified that amendment intended and understood that it required all the states to make abortion illegal, and then forgot to do it.

255 posted on 07/30/2011 7:28:53 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: tacticalogic

Abortion was illegal in every state by the early 20th C.

The Declaration of Independence is incompatible with slavery, but the process of getting rid of slavery was lengthy. I.e., they “forgot” to get rid of slavery for more than 80 years. That fact does not detract from the truths enunciated in the Declaration.

The Fourteenth Amendment, as written, prohibits the states from marking out some segment of the population, and legalizing the murder of those people.


258 posted on 07/30/2011 10:55:28 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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