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To: cpforlife.org

Abortion isn’t like ordering off a cafeteria menu. If that was all it was, no one would see it as a big deal.

It involves fundamental questions of when life begins and right and wrong and these square of against equally fundamental questions of autonomy and liberty and personal privacy

Is it about the baby or a woman’s rights? I don’t think we’ll ever find a solution both sides can agree on because if they could - Roe would have been gone long ago.


12 posted on 10/20/2018 3:57:48 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop; cpforlife.org
Goldstate, you are right when you say that the right to life must be evaluated along with the mother's rights of "autonomy and liberty and personal privacy."

These are fundamental rights, too.

But they are not "equally" as fundamental as the right to life.

The reason why, is that the right to life is prior, both chronologically and logically.

The Declaration, which is foundational to the American political philosophy,. and in the light of which we interpret the Constitution, says the fundamental rights are "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness," -- and this is the only reasonable order, since one must have life before one has liberty (or any other right), and liberty in order to pursue happiness.

Likewise, if you take away the right to life, you don't just take away one right, but all rights at once.

"Personhood" is simply life, subsisting in a member of the human species.

To try to pry apart the status of "human" and the status of "person" --- to create two classes of human beings, one class with rights and the other class without --- was the product of the thoroughly reprehensible Dred Scott Decision. Let Roe vs Wade be tossed out on the same ash heap.

59 posted on 10/20/2018 6:44:26 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Just sayin...)
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