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To: RitaOK
The Constitution does not define “personhood”.

Yes, it does. It states as its crowning purpose the protection of "Posterity." Which of course not only includes the unborn, it includes those who are not even yet conceived.

People forget, that when they destroy the child in the womb, they are not just killing the one child. They are annihilating an entire bloodline, they are extinguishing posterity.

And, our nation's charter, the Declaration of Independence, the first part of the organic law of the United States, defines when every single life begins as well: at creation.

And it goes on to explain that the protection of the equal God-given right to life of every indiviudal is the very reason for being of all human government.

50 posted on 07/27/2011 7:49:52 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (For decades they've kicked the can down the road. Sorry, but there's no more road.)
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To: EternalVigilance

” Yes, it does. It states as its crowning purpose the protection of “Posterity.” Which of course not only includes the unborn, it includes those who are not even yet conceived. “ <<<

Posterity hinges on born individuals in the absence of a declaration of “personhood”. That is why the born individual was granted the privacy rights, which was the cornerstone argument for Roe v. Wade. I don’t mean to argue with your moral correctness, but Roe could not have passed had personhood been defined and then held precedents over privacy. Perhaps states could define personhood.


57 posted on 07/27/2011 7:59:24 PM PDT by RitaOK (We hang together or will hang separately. 2012, or bust)
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To: EternalVigilance
The Roe case arose out of a Texas law that prohibited legal abortion except to save a woman's life. At that time, most other states had laws similar to the one in Texas. Those laws forced large numbers of women to resort to illegal abortions.

Jane Roe, a 21-year-old pregnant woman, represented all women who wanted abortions but could not get them legally and safely. Henry Wade was the Texas Attorney General who defended the law that made abortions illegal.

After hearing the case, the Supreme Court ruled that Americans’ right to privacy included the right of a woman to decide whether to have children, and the right of a woman and her doctor to make that decision without state interference.

101 posted on 07/27/2011 8:56:19 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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