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To: Hostage
The right to life is not addressed in the Constitution.

Baloney.

The Preamble, or what could be called the PRETEXT:

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, 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 includes not just the unborn, but the as yet unconceived.

And, the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments clearly rule out the taking of innocent human life; that is, without a fair trial and conviction on a capital offense.

544 posted on 05/02/2007 5:03:08 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("A [Free] Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: EternalVigilance

Posterior is what comes after. You are stretching the meaning of the word to suit your own wishes, just as the Supreme Court stretched the meaning of the word ‘privacy’ in their flawed decision in Roe vs. Wade.

The Preamble is not law, it is a statement of purposes. The Supreme Court never rules from the Preamble. They may draw on it to justify their decision on law, but they never cite it as law.

If the Founders had wanted to include the word unborn they would have done so. The fact is that the unborn were not guaranteed life because 25% of pregancies ended in still births in that age.

Abortion was always in the realm of religion and during that age religion was part of everyday conduct. Nobody in that age thought to legalize abortion so it was not necessary to put in the Constitution a specific law that prohibited abortion.

You want to make Fred Thompson’s federalist position on abortion some sort of pro-choice smear. You can try but you’re not going to convince anyone here but a few wrongheaded persons.

The right to life is addressed in the Declaration of Independence. But the DOI is not a document of law. The Constitution is a document of law. The right to life is not addressed in the Constitution nor is the right to an abortion. But a liberal Supreme Court ‘interpreted’ that theright to an abortion was valid under the fourth amendment. They were wrong. Their decision will be overturned.


547 posted on 05/02/2007 5:16:11 PM PDT by Hostage (Fred Thompson will be President.)
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