To: tpaine
The word 'person' applies to whom the sCOTUS says it applies and the sCOTUS has decided that the word will not apply to individual human beings prior to their birth/exit from a womb. When a case comes before the court that deals with a harm done to an unborn individual human being, if the court cannot focus the ruling upon the 'property' of the woman, it will be interesting to see how they weasel out of recognizing the individual humanity of the preborn. [justice O'Connor refused to address the humanity of the individuals killed in Carhardt's abortuary practice, yet she let it be known that Nebraska murder statutes would apply, if the state rewrote their law banning partial birth infanticide to include any exception an attending licensed medical person might want to apply ... particularly interesting since Nebraska doesn't actually regulate their abortuaries, if memory serves.]
32 posted on
02/24/2003 8:27:37 PM PST by
MHGinTN
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To: MHGinTN
Exactly. - If such early abortion is to be seen as murder, due process, and equal protection must be observed.
-- Every suspected case of fertilized egg/embryo/first trimester 'murder' would require a trial by jury, an impossible, ludicrous result of bad, unenforcable law.
33 posted on
02/24/2003 9:16:24 PM PST by
tpaine
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