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To: Mark Bahner
By "person" I assume you mean individual. The Libertarian Party Statement of Principles speaks of "individual rights" and not "human rights."
293 posted on 05/26/2002 7:11:30 PM PDT by jackbob
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To: jackbob
By "person" I assume you mean individual. The Libertarian Party Statement of Principles speaks of "individual rights" and not "human rights."

The point of my post was that our law--THE Law, the Constitution of the United States--doesn't recognize the unborn as being "persons"...exactly as slaves were not recognized as "persons" until the 13th amendment. Therefore, the unborn have no more Constitutional rights than monkeys. The only LEGITIMATE way to grant Constitutional rights to the unborn is to pass a Constitutional amendment...exactly as the 13th (and 14th) Amendments changed the Constitution to recognize rights for the former without-rights slaves.

Of course, within The Law (the Constitution) individual states can do anything up to complete criminalization of all forms of abortion, just as slavery was illegal within some states, prior to the 13th amendment.

303 posted on 05/27/2002 7:33:48 PM PDT by Mark Bahner
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