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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The founders neither wrote abortion into or out of the Constitution. It was an unfortunate mistake.

The only way you can believe that is to do two things: A) Ignore the dictionary meaning of the word "posterity," and B) Agree with Justice Blackmun that the fetus is not a person. Why? Because the Constitution explicitly protects the life of EVERY innocent person.

Even Blackmun, in the Roe vs. Wade written opinion, admitted that if the fetus is a person, they are "of course" protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.

And so, he dehumanized the child, with the result being the brutal deaths of more than fifty million defenseless, innocent persons.

One other thing: Even if one accepted the false notion that the unborn aren't "in the Constitution," the portion of your post that I quoted at the top of this reply has you doing exactly what the Ninth Amendment expressly forbids.

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

20 posted on 01/06/2011 3:41:03 PM PST by EternalVigilance (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! -- Samuel Adams)
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To: EternalVigilance
...Ignore the dictionary meaning of the word "posterity..."

Funny thing...

The first reference from a Google Define: for "posterity" is a paraphrase of the preamble to the Constitution:

descendants: all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"

-PJ

22 posted on 01/06/2011 3:51:48 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
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