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Posted on 05/09/2003 11:19:15 AM PDT by cpforlife.org
Slain Peterson child becomes issue in abortion controversy By Tina Susman STAFF WRITER
May 9, 2003
Though never born, Conner Peterson has achieved remarkable fame. In four months, the fetus has gone from being the bulge in the belly of his famously missing mother, Laci, to being Conner the unborn son, a murder victim who surfaced on a California beach last month.
In the process, Conner has become a sort of poster child for abortion foes and the worst nightmare of abortion rights groups as they fight over the definition of human life.
If abortion opponents have their way, there might even be a law named after Conner Peterson.
They are using the highly-publicized case to call for more laws recognizing fetuses as human beings when they fall victim to violent crime. The latest push came Wednesday when Sen. Mike DeWine of Ohio introduced the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, to allow prosecution for harming or killing a fetus during a federal crime. At the same time, DeWine presented a letter from Laci Peterson's grieving family supporting the bill.
"Knowing that perpetrators who murder pregnant women will pay the price not only for the loss of the mother, but the baby as well, will help bring justice for these victims," said the letter, signed by several members of Laci Peterson's family. They proposed naming it Laci and Conner's Law.
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I AM:
A CHILD OF GOD
THE HEART OF A MARRIAGE
THE FOUNDATION OF A FAMILY
THE FUTURE OF OUR REPUBLIC
A CITIZEN--WAITING AND WANTING TO BE BORN
A PERSON
DESTROY ME--AND YOU DESTROY THE FUTURE
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He was born. He just wasn't born alive. (They found the baby's corpse apart from Mom Laci)
He was born. He just wasn't born alive.Maybe. Maybe not.
Macbeth:Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 8As easy mayst thou the intrenchant airMacduff:
With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed:
Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests,
I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield
To one of woman born.Despair thy charm,
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb
Untimely ripped.
The common law basis of our system embodied in the principle of stare decisis and the just requirements of consistency in applying the law demand a respect for precedent. To this objection I offer two replies. First, there was a federal court precedent for the unborn person reading of Fourteenth Amendment before Roe v. Wade, though this fact was virtually ignored by Justice Harry Blackmun and the Roe Court. In Stenberg v. Brown (1970) a three-judge federal district court upheld an anti-abortion statute, stating that privacy rights "must inevitably fall in conflict with express provisions of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law." After relating the biological facts of fetal development, the court stated that "those decisions which strike down state abortion statutes by equating contraception and abortion pay no attention to the facts of biology." "Once new life has commenced," the court wrote, "the constitutional protections found in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments impose upon the state the duty of safeguarding it." Yet in commenting on the unborn person argument in Roe, Justice Blackmun wrote that "the appellee conceded on reargument that no case could be cited that holds that a fetus is a person within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment." He did so despite the fact that he had cited the case just five paragraphs earlier! The failure of both appellees and the Court to treat this case is both unfortunate and inexplicable. Second, while our system is based upon a reasonable and healthy respect for precedent, this has never prevented the Court from revisiting and modifying precedent when the erroneous foundation and unjust results of that precedent become manifest. Such is the case with respect to abortion and the Fourteenth Amendment.
State Homicide Laws That Recognize Unborn Victims
The Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 503) recognizes unborn children as victims of federally prohibited crimes of violence. If someone injures or kills an unborn child while committing a violent federal crime against a pregnant woman, the assailant will be charged with a separate offense on behalf of the unborn child. The bill simply puts federal law behind the common sense recognition that when a criminal attacks a pregnant woman, and injures or kills her unborn child, he has claimed two human victims. The House passed H.R. 503 / vote: 252-172 April 26, 2001
Homicide Based on the Killing of an Unborn Child -- In this essay, Alan Wasserstrom surveys the history of laws which prosecute feticide--the destruction of a human fetus--as homicide.
frodolives,
The Constitution is based on The Declaration of Independence.
The second paragraph reads thus:
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, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Abraham Lincoln wrote the following in 1855:
As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it, "all men are created equal except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty.
frodolives, your question may be interpreted as "all men are created equal except before they are born." Please note that the Declaration reads CREATED EQUAL not BORN EQUAL. Also note that it reads"...certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Now frodolives, obviously LIFE is listed as the first of all the "certain unalienable Rights" simply because without Life no other Rights are possible.
I am sure that you are not one the "Know-Nothings" President Lincoln was referring to, so if you could--please explain specifically what your point of posting your #9 is.
Oh my, the errors of logic! Shouldn't the pro-choice movement defend the right to choose? Why are they opposed to protect the choice of life? Laci had chosen life for her baby. Obviously, they are only interested in protecting the choice of death.
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