Posted on 02/24/2011 4:22:11 PM PST by blade_tenner
From the proposed law:
'Prenatal murder' means the intentional removal of a fetus from a woman with an intention other than to produce a live birth or to remove a dead fetus; provided, however, that if a physician makes a medically justified effort to save the lives of both the mother and the fetus and the fetus does not survive, such action shall not be prenatal murder. Such term does not include a naturally occurring expulsion of a fetus known medically as a 'spontaneous abortion' and popularly as a 'miscarriage' so long as there is no human involvement whatsoever in the causation of such event. (c) The act of prenatal murder is contrary to the health and well-being of the citizens of this state and to the state itself and is illegal in this state in all instances. (d) Any person committing prenatal murder in this state shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided in subsection (d) of Code Section 16-5-1.
By what criteria would the unborn be citizens?
That one of the reasons our Constitution was established was to secure the blessings of liberty to our offspring does not establish the citizenship of the unborn - it gives one of the reasons our government was established.
The unborn do not have to be legally defined as citizens (and they are not) to have rights that should be (but are not) respected under our Constitution.
This has been gone over previously.
Erroneously covered before and again now imho.
To be a citizen under U.S. law and the Constitution one must be born or naturalized.
If you know of a legal argument whereby the unborn are citizens then say so.
Otherwise any argument based upon the citizenship of the unborn is erroneous.
They are persons - in my view of the law - and not to be deprived of life without due process of law. And, as you point out, the Constitution was established to ensure liberty to ourselves and our posterity - but that doesn't establish citizenship of the unborn. That is a different argument - a facile one.
Thanks. I did not see that till after I had posted.
I never read through the thread before posting either.
It takes too long.
As I read the first sentence, it completely contradicts the title. But that is probably just me.
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