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To: Lazlo in PA
The Tenth Amendment deals with powers, not rights.

And there is no department of government, in any branch, at any level, that has any legitimate power to alienate the right to life.

All they have is the sworn duty to secure it for all.

That's the primary purpose of government. All government.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."

57 posted on 08/11/2011 2:35:15 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (The same old games being played by the same old crowd in the formerly grand old party.)
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To: EternalVigilance

That is all fine and good and I agree, but we have had Roe on the books for almost 40 years. The Pro Death movement have been able to sell this as a right to generations of dopes. I don’t see any other way to back out of it once Roe is overturned. People have been brainwashed that life starts at birth and not conception and the education that the opposite is true is taking an extremely long time. We are going to have to work with the bucket of s#!t we have.


59 posted on 08/11/2011 2:53:35 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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