To: logos; Jim Robinson; spintreebob
The word "abortion" is not in the Constitution, but the Constitution is dependent upon an affirmation of the "right to life." The right to life is a federal issue and always has been, whatever courts have said. Government that does not grant the People's declared right to life clearly denies all other rights to those killed.
An assertion of rights and liberties, while neglecting the right and liberty for an innocent human being to live, indicates a philosophy that chooses to interpret the Constitution not holistically, but by the filter of personal liberties placed above mutual responsibility to our self-evident truths and to each other; a shift from American liberty toward baseless license.
Placing liberty above mutual responsibility also effectively begins to shift American government's functions away from those of a free republic accountable to Nature's God and in the direction of a tribunal of both personal liberties and personal license, whatever this tribunal's structure.
237 posted on
01/23/2003 1:04:57 PM PST by
unspun
("..promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,")
To: unspun
Wow! This one comes back from a long time ago...
The word "abortion" is not in the Constitution, but the Constitution is dependent upon an affirmation of the "right to life." The right to life is a federal issue and always has been, whatever courts have said. Government that does not grant the People's declared right to life clearly denies all other rights to those killed.
We're in total agreement. It was my point, however, that Roe v. Wade turned the Constitution on it's head, and if we're ever to return to government under the Constitution as intended we need to take some affirmative action to correct the error.
As horrendous and immoral and absolutely evil as the deaths attributed to Roe v. Wade are, the assault upon our Constitutional government by that decision is just as horrendous and immoral and absolutely evil.
238 posted on
01/23/2003 1:20:52 PM PST by
logos
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