Without life there can be no liberty, Patrick Henry understood this.
A person is a single person when he can live independently.
This proposition is entirely incorrect because this would give the states cause to kill children until the age of, lets say about, 8.
Prior to that he is two people,
This statement is also incorrect and the human genome proves it indisputably. The argument that a baby is the same as an appendix is fallacious.
As for your 14th amengment argument, I don't agree with it. States need to be constrained just like the federal government does. If man was incapable of evil, then government would be superfluous but its not. In general, I support federalism and the tenth but not where generally agreed to unalienable rights are concerned.
The right to life should be protected by the constitution of the United States and I think it is. The right to smoke dope should be left to the states.
Each state has a constitution that restrains it.
If man was incapable of evil, then government would be superfluous but its not. In general, I support federalism and the tenth but not where generally agreed to unalienable rights are concerned.
The very question we're dealing with is when does the unalienable right to life begin? It begins when it is capable of existing, without taxing another life's bloodstream, lungs, and digestive system for its own sustenance. Until it can be independent, it is not unalienable. This is also the only way out of the "rape and incest" trap. Anti-Abortionists are going to have to learn that you can't compel a woman to bear a rapists' child - that's unconstitutional - the IVth and the XIIIth make it so.
The right to life should be protected by the constitution of the United States and I think it is. The right to smoke dope should be left to the states.
I will go along with you with the caveat that it is the right to independent life, that must be protected. Until a life can be independent, it must infringe on equally important others' lives and liberty. The right to abortion is a balance between the mother's and child's rights.