[tpaine]

'the word `person´ as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States applies to all human beings irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development.'
-remedy-


"It is wrong to play word games with the text of the Constitution. Reading the word "person" to encompass all human life and thus to make abortion illegal is exactly like arguing that the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition of "involuntary servitude" makes the military draft unconstitutional."

[MHGinTN]

The word 'person' applies to whom the sCOTUS says it applies and the sCOTUS has decided that the word will not apply to individual human beings prior to their birth/exit from a womb. When a case comes before the court that deals with a harm done to an unborn individual human being, if the court cannot focus the ruling upon the 'property' of the woman, it will be interesting to see how they weasel out of recognizing the individual humanity of the preborn. [justice O'Connor refused to address the humanity of the individuals killed in Carhardt's abortuary practice, yet she let it be known that Nebraska murder statutes would apply, if the state rewrote their law banning partial birth infanticide to include any exception an attending licensed medical person might want to apply ... particularly interesting since Nebraska doesn't actually regulate their abortuaries, if memory serves.]