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Can the Fourteenth Amendment Be Used to Protect Human Life Before Birth?
The Heritage Foundation ^
| Thomas Jipping
Posted on 01/07/2023 8:15:29 PM PST by TBP
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The short answer is yes. In fact, by one reading, the Fourteenth Amendment, backed by the Fifth from which it borrows phraseology, requires protection of preborn human life.
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posted on
01/07/2023 8:15:29 PM PST
by
TBP
To: TBP
“The Fourteenth Amendment empowers Congress to enforce its guarantees...”
So, all we have to do is get a majority of both houses of Congress to pass a bill and a President willing to sign it. Probably not any time soon.
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posted on
01/07/2023 8:19:52 PM PST
by
hanamizu
To: TBP
The entire purpose of the Constitution, without any amendment whatsoever, is to secure, among a few other fundamental rights, the right to life. To make laws establishing what the Creator has already established by natural law is unnatural.
To: TBP
Listening to Mc Carthy’s first speech, I was struck by his proclamation that we will “protect reproductive freedom”. We’ve always had reproductive freedom. Every single one of us has reproductive freedom. It’s not given by our legislators, but by God alone, as our Creator. However when our reproductive freedom results in the conception of a human life, then, we are not free to kill that life. Kevin.
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posted on
01/07/2023 8:37:00 PM PST
by
adc
(wethepeople)
To: adc
I thought that was in Jeffries’ speech.
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posted on
01/07/2023 9:02:56 PM PST
by
TBP
(Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
To: TBP
NO
Resoundingly no.
The 14th amendment is a part of the slavery amendments. They didn’t discuss abortion, they didn’t discuss gay marriages, and they didn’t discuss anything else when the 14th amendment was being proposed and drafted.
It was to deal with slavery. That’s what it is.
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posted on
01/07/2023 9:12:24 PM PST
by
ProgressingAmerica
(A man's rights rest in 3 boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.- Frederick Douglass)
To: ProgressingAmerica
The provision prohibiting any state from depriving any individual of life, liberty, or property without due process of law protects all human beings, regardless of status.
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posted on
01/07/2023 9:24:02 PM PST
by
TBP
(Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
To: TBP
Why not define a “person” and “human being” as one conceived instead of one born?
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posted on
01/07/2023 9:32:52 PM PST
by
Jyotishi
(Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
To: TBP
That must be the living and breathing constitutional interpretation.
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posted on
01/07/2023 9:39:50 PM PST
by
ProgressingAmerica
(A man's rights rest in 3 boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.- Frederick Douglass)
To: TBP
Pro-life lost everywhere it was directly on the ballot in 2022, including Kansas, Kentucky and Montana. Actually passing a full nationwide abortion ban would be complete political suicide.
To: ProgressingAmerica
It’s a textualist interpretation. The text is quite clear.
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posted on
01/07/2023 10:07:04 PM PST
by
TBP
(Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
To: TBP
It’s a shame. We all hate progressivism until we’re embracing it.
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posted on
01/07/2023 10:30:06 PM PST
by
ProgressingAmerica
(A man's rights rest in 3 boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.- Frederick Douglass)
To: TBP
Its more than human life, its American human life that is in the womb. Abortion is killing an American Citizen.
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posted on
01/07/2023 11:36:12 PM PST
by
chopperk
To: TBP
We're in the banana republic stage. The Constitution means whatever any judge or politician says it means, without regard for any other judge or politician.
The Supreme Court could say Yes, but Congress could ignore it and say No, and the DOJ, every Governor, and every state Attorney General remains free to interpret or enforce (or not enforce) the Constitution however they please.
To: TBP
The short answer is yes. The correct answer is NO.
It's been 50 years now, and an unborn human is valueless; except in VERY rare cases.
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posted on
01/08/2023 4:55:20 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Fester Chugabrew
...the right to life. Where's that Simpson HAHA kid?
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posted on
01/08/2023 4:56:15 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Jyotishi
Why not define a “person” and “human being” as one conceived instead of one born?WHAT!?!?!?
And give them the same 'rights' as a Bald Eagle??
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posted on
01/08/2023 4:57:37 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: chopperk
Abortion is killing an a future American Citizen.
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posted on
01/08/2023 5:02:20 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
Give them the right to live.
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posted on
01/08/2023 5:05:05 PM PST
by
Jyotishi
(Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
To: TBP
Congress is much more likely to pass a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing abortion up to the completion of delivery than they are to do anything like you suggest.
And there are close to 38 States that would ratify it.
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posted on
01/08/2023 5:15:07 PM PST
by
Jim Noble
(You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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