First of all, not everyone who supports abortion is "anti-life," so get rid of that from your lexicon. That is no different than accusing those opposed to abortion as being "anti-privacy."
Secondly, there are a large number (myself included) who believe that the abortion question properly belongs to State regulation.
Thirdly, the right to due process of law is guaranteed only to citizens. The Fourteenth amendment guarantees that only to those born in the United States. At no time in common law were unborn children vested with any rights prior to birth. Now, admittedly, this leaves a huge donut hole where a human being is without protections of law. Now, admittedly, this reasoning is disturbingly like Dred Scott, but unfortunately, it is legally unassailable.
The answer to the breathtaking judicial activism of Roe v. Wade is not to become judicial activists ourselves.
And you are wrong about the Constitution not recording pre-born Life.
It certainly does.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Posterity = the UNBORN
And don't give me that stuff about the preamble not counting: it is the PURPOSE statement of the Constitution. Therefore, as it's PURPOSE STATEMENT, it cannot be interpreted in contradiction to that STATED PURPOSE.
It says that the UNBORN are INCLUDED!
There is no way around it: Abortion at its worst is premeditated murder, and at its best it is homicide.
Are you aware that unborn children (”fetuses”) can inherit property?
The last sentence is patently false, as can be demonstrated by inheritance and probate laws. The very abortion statutes overturned by Roe are futher evidence of the falsity of proposition that prenatal persons did not enjoy the protection of the law. Furthermore, by your logic and interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, non-naturalized aliens would not be persons either, because they were not born in the United States. It is pure sophistry. It's like saying that because the Constitution requires that a person must be at least age twenty-five to be a Representative, that human beings under the age of twenty-five are not persons.
Cordially,
holy katz jude!
The same people that brought us the lottery, welfare and Louise Slaughter!
I'd rather leave it in Gods hands
Not everyone who supports arson is anti-fire safety.
Not everyone who supports drunk driving is anti-traffic safety.
Not everyone who supports massive tax hikes is anti-tax cuts
See, I can do it too. It's kinda fun!
The answer to the breathtaking judicial activism of Roe v. Wade is not to become judicial activists ourselves.
Judicial activism is about writing new law from the bench. Affirming the clear right of the Congress to pass this law is not judicial activism.
The Constitution is not a suicide pact, nor is it a contract hit on small children. With your legal mumbo jumbo you strain out a gnat but swallow a dumpster full of dead babies.