Thread: For Abortion or against it?
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Old 08-17-2005, 10:45 PM   #123 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tadpole256
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OOP--I wonder if the Founding Fathers had fetus' rights in mind while they wrote the Constitution. I think interpretation of the Constitution is required when it comes to fetus' rights. An honest question: did they have abortion back then?

Axiom--What can clearly be discerned by the V and XIV Amendments are that no person(s)/human(s) life is taken without "Due Process". It doesn't matter if they were considering zygote, fetus, mentally handicapped, etc...when writing these two amendments. LIFE, Liberty, and Property of a person was their concern.

They didn't determine degrees of LIFE; stages of LIFE; or quality of the LIFE, only that LIFE was protected from being taken without "Due Process". They were very particular about these points, otherwise why write two seperate amendments protecting them?
But you said persons / humans... Many people (including myself) do not consider a fetus to be either... So that blasts your argument right out of the water...
Then as I challenged OOP, I challenge you...define "person". And, if you cannot adequately define it (no one has, but good luck anyway) then as I said before..."Due Process" is established to "err on the safe side" the Court should have and must eventually do the same.
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