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To: Dad was my hero
"I just don't adhere to the thought that you can have some fundamental rights in some states and not others especially one as important as life."

It matters little what YOU believe in, the Constitution does not give the Federal government the right to regulate that.

Perhaps you are a tad confused, it was when the Federal government got involved that the right to kill the unborn was created.

Trust the Feds on this?

Look at what they've done to date.

75 posted on 08/05/2003 7:08:37 AM PDT by Luis Gonzalez
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To: Luis Gonzalez
I don't think I'm a tad confused at all. If the founding fathers had wanted it legal, they could have done it when our country was founded. Abortion has been known as a process to end pregnancies since Hippocrates wrote in his oath that "I will not give a woman an abortive remedy..." 400 BC.

Furthermore, it was not the "Federal Government" per se that "gave us abortion" but a group of unelected supreme court justices that pronounced that within the findings of the right to privacy, a woman has a right to do with her body as she sees fit. But in this country you don't, as that right is not absolute. AND it should never extend to the body of somebody else. It went to the supreme court from the state of Texas which had it banned to begin with. And to add confusion to the mix, we have a mixture of laws, apparently conflicting, about the status of a baby in utero. If a pregnant woman is attacked by someone who injures her and the baby dies, in many states the attacker can be charged with some degree of murder, but in the same state if she was on route to an abortion clinic to have the baby killed, nothing happens. It is dependent on what she decides the status of her pregnancy is, is it wanted or unwanted? If she wants it or if she doesn't want it, either position the state supports because of federal law.

The federal constitution expressly says that a person shall not be deprived of life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness. So the issue boils down to whether or not this is a person, and unless you have some greater knowledge than I have, this is a person. At conception it may not look like you or me but it is a person none the less. Not a potential person as it will become nothing else (not an eggplant or a puppy) if left to mature naturally.

84 posted on 08/05/2003 7:41:46 AM PDT by Dad was my hero
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