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To: John Valentine
And I am sure that the framers of the 14th never had the slightest intention that its provisions would cover a fetus.

oh bull doody, the framers of the 14th would have implicitly considered an unborn human to be just that *human*..

266 posted on 11/08/2007 12:24:20 PM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: N3WBI3
the framers of the 14th would have implicitly considered an unborn human to be just that *human*..

You are monumentally wrong, even if you are right in the irrelevant way you have framed your comment.

What the framers would NOT have considered, even in a moment's reverie is that a fetus is a "person" subject to the protections of the Constitution. It is persons to whom the protections of the Constitution have always applied. It has only been in the last thirty or forty years that even the notion of granting rights to fetuses has even been considered or talked about seriously.

Whether the framers would have considered a human fetus "human" is trivial and moot. It is dishonest equivocating even to frame your comment in the way you did.

268 posted on 11/08/2007 12:31:59 PM PST by John Valentine
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