Posted on 07/16/2002 11:58:42 AM PDT by davidosborne
To: U.S. Government
CITIZEN PETITION TO REVERSE ROE V. WADE .........
WHEREAS: Because of Roe v. Wade, millions of unborn children have died through abortion; and
WHEREAS: In Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court declared it could not resolve "the difficult question of when life begins" -- and on the basis of this unresolved question, declared a new "right to abortion" based on a "right of privacy"; and
WHEREAS: The 14th Amendment to the Constitution
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 law"; and
WHEREAS: In Roe, the Supreme Court
admitted: "If....personhood [for the unborn] is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life is then guarnteed specifically by the [fourteenth] Amendment..." (Roe v. Wade [410 US 113 at 156-7]) ; and
WHEREAS: Science is clear that human life begins at conception when a new human being, gentically neither "part" of either parent, is formed; and
WHEREAS: The American people oppose abortion-on-demand and want innocent human life to be protected especially when it is most defenseless; and
WHEREAS: It belongs to Congress to resolve the question the Supreme Court said IT cannot resolve; and
WHEREAS: A Life at Conception Act, by declaring unborn children are Persons entitled to constitutional protection, will rescue millions of unborn children from dying through abortion-on-demand;
THEREFORE: I urge you to cast every vote for a Life at Conception Act, and to do everything possible to bring it to a full vote in the U.S. House and Senate in this session of Congress.
Unless this Act is actually a constitutional amendment, I can't see how this statement is true.
Agreed. We need a Right to Life amendment to the Constitution.
The founding fathers were wise beyond belief. They put up the Constitution, The Bill Of Rights. All very good.
They also gave us the means to change things if need be.
And we need to change this 'abortion' thing.
That's what I was about to say. You can't overturn Supreme Court decisions by just passing a law contradicting it.
What about this:
Roe V. Wade decision explicitly says something like "we(the court) can not determine where life begins" and then went onto base their decision upon "privacy" and other bunk. If a federal law is made that defines constitutional protection at birth, then the only thing that could happen, is that the law is challeneged and goes before the SCOTUS. Not that they have to consider Roe V. Wade, but if they(the court) do, then the entire basis for the previous decision is shot down based upon the new federal law. Roe V. Wade would be meaningless. I'm not sure how the SCOTUS could find that such a law is "unconstitutional", given that it specifically deals with the question that the previous SCOTUS avoided at all costs.
Am I not looking at this correctly?
This is wrong. The Bill of Rights was in plain English, no p!ssant variations.
Personally, I think that any "prenumbra of privacy" is trumped by a law addressing the issue that the Roe V. Wade court dodged - when life begins. The court took the easy way out and used the "privacy" argument. If a law defines life at conception, then Roe V. Wade is null and void, IMO.
Again, I still think we need a Constitutional amendment, but I think any reasonable person realizes the writers of the constitution never intended on abortion being a legal activity because it was understood that was murder.
Thanks, David.
This law couldn't overturn it, although it's likely to be even more controversial.
A reversal of Roe v. Wade would return the regulation and permissibility of abortions to each individual state. This Act would arguably grant some rights to the embryo immediately upon conception, thus making it a federal issue and taking it away from the states again.
Interesting stuff.
You are onto something here. If life can't be said to exist here or there, why would something need to be done to stop it? They can say first trimester and all that, but if it isn't human life, how would a human baby naturally be the result. The continuous chain of events is already begun.
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