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To: Jewbacca
I am unaware of a conflict.

The small l libertarian position is generally to revoke Roe v. Wade and return the issue to the states.

The conservative position is that the right to life is unalienable. This was unanimously agreed to in 1776.

The 14th Amendment to the Constitution states:

1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Please notice the distinction between "All persons born" in the first sentence and any person (one would assume born or unborn, naturalized or not,as it is not distinguished as it is in the first) in the second sentence.

162 posted on 03/20/2010 2:38:42 PM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: ALPAPilot; Jewbacca
The small l libertarian position is generally to revoke Roe v. Wade and return the issue to the states. ~~ The conservative position is that the right to life is unalienable. This was unanimously agreed to in 1776.

True; but that does not alter the fact that Murder Laws are constitutionally a function of State Law, rather than Federal Law. (They are).

That's not disputing the unalienable Right to Life; it's simply identifying which level of Government is constitutionally responsible for its enforcement. The Prophet Daniel was willing to be sentenced to death in the lion's den, rather than overthrow the "Constitution Law" of the Medes and Persians (which stated that once issued, a King's Law could not be revoked). So that's Biblical evidence that God considers adherence to Constitutional Law an important matter.

163 posted on 03/20/2010 2:53:14 PM PDT by Christian_Capitalist (Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
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To: ALPAPilot

“The conservative position is that the right to life is unalienable. This was unanimously agreed to in 1776.”

While I would love to agree with you, under English common law in effect at the time (and adopted by the new USA), “life” did not begin until the child drew its first breath outside the womb.

Again, I don’t agree with the English position at the time, but that was the law in 1776.


176 posted on 03/22/2010 7:29:44 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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