The problem with the states or courts defining “legal personhood” is that it ignores reality.
There is an actual person, and that has unalienable rights which are already defined by God. The fact that a court or state passes a law that eliminates personhood or rights for an individual doesn’t mean the actual person or rights are eliminated.
Right. That’s why the right is said to be unalienable. It is endowed by the Creator, and the only thing somebody besides the Creator can do is either obey or violate those rights.
The Roe v Wade decision gave government permission to pick and choose who their “clientele” will be, and provide protection, due process, and justice to only those, while allowing every kind of crime against anybody outside their “preferred people” list.
That’s what every oppressive people has always done. But the blood of the innocent cries out. No matter what rules we choose to play by, the ones that count are the ones the Creator plays by, and any nation or culture that ignores it does so at its own peril.
I remember when we lived in Minnesota there was a particularly deadly week of crime, and the Minneapolis Mayor (Sharon Sayles-Belton?) was on the radio saying how she just couldn’t understand how there was such a callous disregard for human life. I just about choked to death. Isn’t that what we’ve been telling you all along, you pro-death people?
When each individual gets to decide the worth of another based on expedience for their own purposes, this is what naturally follows. Every child killed in an abortion is just as precious as that 20-year-old who was just killed by a robber; it’s just that you didn’t recognize it, Mayor, because YOU have a “callous disregard for human life”. Human life is sacred regardless of what we think; all we can do is recognize and obey that sanctity, or ignore and violate it. When we violate it, something inside us dies too.