Well... this is pretty much an "either/or" question.
We can't have our cake and eat it too...
That sound you hear is the Prolife unstoppable force meeting the Immigration-reform immovable object.
In the words of Charlton Heston (Planet of the Apes): "It's a madhouse! A madhouse!"
WOW! I doubt that the argument will fly, but think of the ramifications if the Federal Courts agree. Imagine a potential father filing to stop an abortion to protect the unborn baby's health.
Was this reprinted from The Onion ??
I say we let her back in and let that stand that the fetus is viable American, establishing that it is a baby and has rights...That would be a win for the anti-abortion stand.
Interesting.
This could be fun to watch unfold. If the court rules that the unborn child acquired full US citizenship rights just because conception took place in the US; then life begins at conception and Roe v. Wade goes out the window.
Looks like the DoI needs to update the tourist visa. "This doucument does not allow the holder to have sex while in the United States"
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"Pregnant woman wants re-entry to U.S., lawyers say fetus is citizen ^"
Dems will then claim a pregnant woman's vote counts twice.
"They also say under federal law the fetus is a viable human being ..." Not to confuse the few, but the terms human being and viable are not one and the same notion even though strung together in the article, so if the 'human being' is viable then before he or she is viable, he or she is already a human being. Would one of you defenders of abortion like to explain to this ol' country boy just when that magical attribution begins ... human being?
Just because you are born (or in this case conceived) here, that SHOULD not be the end all be all when it comes to citizenship. If two foreign citizens, legal or illegal, have a child here, that child should be a citizen of the county his/her parents are from. Why in God's name do we have this insane policy????
Anchor baby before the water even breaks.
I thought the rule for citizenship that applies is "BORN" on US soil. Not conceived or "carried" by the pregnant mother.
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I have a headache.
If an American family is in a foreign country and has a child, they have to go to the American embassy right away and register the birth for the child to be able to be considered a natural-born American citizen.
The fetus is a person.
On June 11, 2004 Irish voters voted in a national referendum to end automatic citizenship for any child born in Ireland regardless of the parents’ residence status. Ireland was the last member of the European Union to allow pregnant foreigners to gain residence and welfare benefits as a result of birth in the country. Seattle Post Intelligencer, June 13, 2004.
and this:
Every Person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons." Senator Jacob Howard, co-author of the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment, 1866.
For resource see FAIR: Anchor Babies