Posted on 11/01/2011 4:39:11 AM PDT by markomalley
A funny thing happened on the way to forgetting about the abortion issue, which has roiled the country’s politics for four decades. Some people haven’t forgotten about it at all.
Mississippi, which nobody ever cited as a bellwether state, will vote on Nov. 8 whether to amend its state constitution to protect the civil rights of all “persons,” defined in Amendment 26 to “include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the functional equivalent thereof.” Abortion would be effectively defined as murder. This time Mississippi may indeed be a bellwether.
“Just about every elected official in Mississippi, black or white and Democrat or Republican, is for Amendment 26,” says one unsympathetic pol pleading anonymity as he sips a midmorning cup of coffee at the Mayflower, a cafe where the pols gather to gossip down Capital Street from the Capitol. “Or at least they say they’re for it. Opposing it is a ticket to oblivion.”
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No matter what anybody says- most abortions in this country are done for conveeeenience, when there are couples out there desperate to adopt a child.
Another thing- between 1865 and 1971, there were approximately 2500 blacks lynched in the South by Democrats. Between 1973 and today, approximately 12.5 million blacks were lynched by abortionists.
It will be defined as homicide. That’s good. Homicide isn’t always murder as in the case of capital punishment or a justifiable accident.
That would at least leave it up to the defendant to demonstrate a murder did not take place.
On the other hand, there are few abortions that are not intentional. The exceptions I can think of would involve cancers or some other illness in which the mother risks that both mother and child will survive despite a round of treatment that would pose risk to both.
Technology, yes. That and not supporting all instances of the most barbaric practices.
Further, it becomes a matter for the states
Want to kill your baby...... go to California
I agree with you and hope this passes. I’ve said for years that we should work to define ‘human being’ as including the human fetus (what other sort of being would it be?), and just apply existing laws/rights. To say we need to pass laws banning abortion is to tacitly agree with the pro-abortion position that fetal humans are not really human beings with the same rights and legal protections that rest of us have.
And will the governor have the guts to enforce this?
The people whose authority was directly challenged by Roe v. Wade were the governors—and not a single one did the right thing, which was Nullification.
All the rat callers are outraged over black bondage which expired 160 years ago. Not a peep over hundreds of thousands of BLACK MURDERS per year going on now and how the party that once defended black bondage, defends black murder.
Abortion hangs by a Scotus decision. There is no federal law that established it, despite Article I Section 1. It needs to be reheard.
Placemark for tomorrow.
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