I do not fault the proposition for what it wanted. But too many are running crazy panicking to sell it. So should we do less, or nothing at all. I’m talking only of positive protections, that the law has no choice but to provide. Skirt the quibbles by stating less than we would want, but enough to get the votes and enough to cover most of the carnage. Taking it to the point of a heartbeat, or even to the point of a functioning nervous system, would be defensible in new arguments against the old Roe v. Wade.
“No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.”
“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.”
That is the supreme law of the land.