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To: billbears
the child in the womb has just as many rights as the mother carrying him or her

I disagree. The living mother has a natural right to preserve her own life the unborn child does not.

Are you suggesting that the national government by 'monitoring' unborn children is condoning the right of the individual to kill another individual?

No, I'm suggesting a possible outcome that would infringe on other individual rights.

And considering your abolition group of the 1800s amassed less than 100,000-200,000 people out of a population of 20 million in the north (Abolition Party figures) before the war,

I'd suggest there were at least 4,000,000 more people living in the South that could be considered abolitionist as well.

I'd say there's no comparison.

And I've already shown there is.

99.5% of the people in the north could have cared less about slavery.

Thats a false and derogitory claim.

your comparison of Southerners to Nazis was an insult. Nazis killed people indiscriminately, much as the doctors in abortion clinics.

And you have a thin skin (or a guilty concious) my friend. I did not introduce the german national socialist comparison, merely continued the string of analogies. I did not say that southerners were nazis, merely that southern slaves were considered property not human.

As to your original question, it is a decision to be made by the legislatures of the separate and sovereign states since it is not covered under the Constitution.

Murder is not covered under the US Constitution, so it will be left up to each state to decide its definition. Is that your position?

945 posted on 06/01/2003 3:55:33 PM PDT by mac_truck (Ora et Labora)
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To: mac_truck
Murder is not covered under the US Constitution

What Constitution would that be?

Start with the fifth and fourteenth amendments.

949 posted on 06/01/2003 4:40:14 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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