Posted on 12/05/2021 5:46:09 AM PST by Kaslin
Is killing a democrat wrong?
To determine that a killing is murder, you first have to assume that the victim is a human being. Perhaps the author would argue that we should eliminate murder laws as well, because of their religious nature.
If you continued down that rabbit hole, I think you’d end up finding that all laws have a religious taint, and are not the business of the courts.
She only wants government intervention when it enforces decrees she agrees with and not with decrees she is against.
Leftist demand the use of the monopoly on force of government to hurt their enemies. This is why their favorite weapon in the ongoing civil war is lawfare.
My suggestion holds for you as well.
IF human life doesn’t begin at conception then I’m gonna bust up some turtle eggs or other so called endangered species.
You’re right; my criticism should have been focused on Sotomayor, not on the author.
I think this is falsely put forward as a “difficult” problem which is “religious” in nature.
How about biology? How about following the science?
The sperm is alive, but it’s just a cell with mere 23 chromosomes.
The ovum is alive, but it’s just a cell with mere 23 chromosomes.
Put them together, you get a living organism which is demonstrably human, with a full 46 chromosomes. It’s right where it ought to be, and fully viable in that location. Human Life. Right there. At fertilization. This isn’t hard.
She can talk out of 8 sides of her at one time.
The minute the egg and sperm unite, there is a creation of a unique set of DNA like no other created before or since that moment in time.
Like Dr. Carson stated, if it’s not human, why do doctor’s and companies want the remains?
As they should. If you believe that your rights come from gubmint, gubmint can grant or take them away at any time. If you believe your rights are God given, only He can take them away,
Sotomayor is just hopelessly stupid. It is a complete waste of time to present any even mildly complex issues for her consideration. She is the classic example of how affirmative action results in incompetence.
Sotomayer apparently does not want to reconsider whether Blackmum’s opinion remains true - “When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus [on when life begins], the judiciary, at this point in the development of man’s knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.”
It seems that the science since then is well beyond consensus and that the judiciary does not have to speculate anymore. If life begins at conception, and the Constitution protects life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, then we are at the next step. Sotomayer needs to answer the legal question why that life would not be entitled to any or even limited Constitutional due process protection? An if entitled to due process protection, what would it look like? Ahhhh ... now the Court has been exposed to be out of its jurisdiction .... it cannot legislate. It would require a Constitutional amendment.
Some will say that the states are empowered to decide whether abortion would be permitted under the 10th Amendment. I would argue that since the US Supreme Court has extended federal constitutional protection via the 14th Amendment, the states would not be able to fashion their own abortion laws without guaranteeing due process to the unborn that could survive federal constitutional requirements. Roe may be the most devastating court decision ever for at least 62 million reasons.
Sotomayer here is either not bright, not honest, or both.
She is also declared Catholic!
Would Sotomayer be insulted if someone said to her that one wished the justice’s mother aborted her as early as the moment of conception instead of having her sit on the Supreme Court? If she is intellectually honest, she would be insulted because it compels her to acknowledge when life begins. For without conception, she would never have been born.
Since the Constitution protects life, liberty and pursuit of happiness without due process, that conceived life is entitled to federal constitutional due process protection - even the states cannot deny due process for the unborn under the 10th Amendment.
Abortion is murder.
Compare the DNA of the mother to the DNA of the fetus. Abortion should be legal for as long as the two DNAs match exactly.
Oh, and BTW, if DNA doesn’t work to differentiate between individuals, we have hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people in prisons that should be set free.
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