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To: EternalVigilance
The right to life for every person is the preeminent unalienable right.

Except in certain specific cases like murder of a federal employee, there is no federal law against murder. You can kill me today and face no federal charge.

While I’m firmly pro-life, I’m more firmly pro-Constitution. As such, I have to come down on the States Rights side of this. The Constitution doesn’t specifically give the federal government the right to outlaw murder before or after birth, so it is a States’ Right per the Tenth Amendment.

73 posted on 11/18/2007 1:01:47 PM PST by SUSSA
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To: SUSSA
Except in certain specific cases like murder of a federal employee, there is no federal law against murder. You can kill me today and face no federal charge.

So, you believe that a state could legalize murder, then.

How absurd.

Every state is guaranteed a republican form of government, and you can't have a republican form of government, according to the American republican model, that doesn't protect the unalienable rights to life and liberty.

What you're supporting, though I doubt you realize it, is the dissolution of the Union, and a complete abrogation of the very principle that this free republic is built upon. You're repudiating the very reason for the existence of government, any government.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."

82 posted on 11/18/2007 1:08:23 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Our God-given rights, and those of our posterity, are not open to debate, negotiation or compromise!)
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To: SUSSA

You are exactly right. Murder and crimes in general are States’ issues to be dealt with by each state. This concept of being for states rights except for certain cherry-picked issues doesn’t seem consistent to me.

In any event it seems it would be better to have some states against abortion than what we have now which is all 50 states allowing legalized abortion.


205 posted on 11/19/2007 4:41:09 PM PST by plain talk
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