Posted on 11/26/2012 7:42:24 PM PST by VitacoreVision
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) asks for your support of the National Pro-Life Alliance and the Life at Conception Act to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Sign the Petition
http://nationalprolifealliance.com/rlacaa_petition.aspx
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Rand Paul Cosponsors Life at Conception Act
Rand Paul - Press Release
24 January 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Senator Rand Paul will join Senator Roger Wicker as an original sponsor of the Life at Conception Act. This legislation declares that the unborn are persons, as prescribed in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
This legislation does not amend or interpret the Constitution, but simply relies on the 14th Amendment, which specifically authorizes Congress to enforce its provisions.
From Section 1 of the 14th Amendment:
“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
By following the powers offered to Congress in the Constitution, passage of the Life at Conception Act would reverse Roe v. Wade without the need for a constitutional amendment.
In a statement today, Sen. Paul shared his thoughts on today’s March for Life and on co-sponsoring this important piece of legislation.
“The right to life is prescribed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence. Ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all Members of Congress. I am doing my part by joining my fellow pro-life colleagues in sponsoring the Life at Conception Act, which will protect the sanctity of human life.
Protecting Americans – whether it’s balancing the budget or ensuring no child will be denied the right to life – is my priority now – as it has always been. As a medical student, I was one of a small group of students who opted out of learning abortion procedures. My regard for the sanctity of life has carried me throughout my career as a physician and I am proud to join my new colleagues to continue this fight for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans, born and unborn.”
Pro-life is a libertarian issue too.
At least it is not inconsistent with libertarian philosophy of using State power to protect the innocent weak from the aggressive strong.
The dims always insist that repubs are ‘anti-science’, but any (honest) student of high school biology knows a unique organism is formed at conception.
Thank you, National Pro Life Alliance and Senator Rand Paul.
Signed, but it cost me $10.
Hey, the election is over, it is now safe to pander to conservatives since it has absolutely no chance of happening
The same reporters who will ask a Republican how old they think the earth is will never ask a Democrat when they think life begins.
Libertarianism is only pro-life if one arbitrarily defines it that way. There is no higher power to make it so. A lot of Christians think they are libertarian when they are really conservatives.
What are you conserving at this point?
Paul is wrong. The Constitution nowhere specifies that Congress has the power to redefine terms used in the Constitution.
Such a law, if it passed, which it certainly won't due to a Democratic Senate, would be of advisory force only to the Supreme Court, which is the logical and traditional, though also not specified, body to define terms used in the Constitution.
I think Roe was an atrocious decision, but it is not going to be overturned. The odds are Obama will nominate two or more Justices, locking in liberal domination of the Court for decades.
Elections have consequences, and this one is really going to screw us over.
What Congress could do is pass a law similar to this, and remove any review of it from the Court's jurisdiction.
This law would also certainly be vetoed by O, so passing it into law would require 2/3 in both houses.
If brainwave activity (or lack thereof) can be the criteria for death, then why not also life?
Seems like a pretty bright line.
I would hope that if there still is an America and we still elections in 2016 that Rand Paul would throw his hat in the ring for Pres. This guy can speak and make his point and I have yet to see him step in it.
This legislation does not amend or interpret the Constitution, but simply relies on the 14th Amendment, which specifically authorizes Congress to enforce its provisions.
Similarly there's another FReeper whose name I can't recall who has a thought provoking tagline...suppose the Mars Explorer found a freshly fertilized egg on Mars. Would scientists be able to claim they found evidence of life? If it's evidence of life on another planet, why not on earth?
Considering Personhood was easily voted down in Mississippi, it has no hope anywhere else.
So, as I asked then:
1) Should every miscarriage be investigated as a possible murder?
2) Should there be some sort of monitoring and testing system imposed to detect the millions of fertilized eggs that fail to implant, again as part of potential murder investigations? Do we include all of those in child mortality statistics?
Paul is wrong. The Constitution nowhere specifies that Congress has the power to redefine terms used in the Constitution.
Your premise is 100% wrong. No where in Paul's statement did he say anything about 'redefining terms used in the Constitution.'
>> Pro-life is a libertarian issue too.
Damn straight.
And further, you can't own another human being.
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