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- From: vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ()
- Subject: Re: Blackmun calls the Roe v. Wade dividing line "arbitrary"
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:38:47 GMT
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- mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus) writes:
-
- > (vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
-
- >[mega snip]
-
- >: Once again, Ms. Smith went and had sex without using her brain. Murder
- >: is murder. There is no such thing as a potential citizen except in the legal
- >: sense. Morally and scientifically life begins at fertilization, and so does
- >: citizenhood.
-
- >This contravenes the 14th Amendment which states: "All persons BORN or
- >naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are
- >citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. ..."
- >Fetuses are not citizens.
-
- If you didn't notice, I conceded the current LEGAL definition of "citizen"
- does not include the preborn. The 14th amendment is NOT what established
- the legal definition of person. It's purpose was to force states to
- follow the same restrictions on rights as the federal government. There is
- no reason that preborn babies could not be defined as "persons" legally,
- and not be yet considered "citizens". Foreign visitors to our
- country are accorded the same rights as our citizens without being
- defined as such.
-
- At one time blacks were not legally citizens either. All it took was
- an amendment to rectify that gross injustice. There is NO reason
- why an amendment couldn't establish the preborn as citizens.
-
-
- >Let's assume that the conceptum (z/e/f) is a citizen. Then, by the Equal
- >Protection clause and the Apportionment Clause of the 14th Ammendment, the
- >conceptum must be counted for the purposes of representation within the House
- >of Representatives.
-
- Let us consider that this is a stupid hypothesis. I have established
- above that even if the preborn were NOT citizens, they could still be
- persons with all the rights accorded thereby.
-
- >From my past readings (I don't have the books with me now, but I will find them
- >in the library) I have learned that it is possible to separate the cells of the
- >blastomere and produce effective twins, quadruplets, etc. (I don't remember how
- >many identical siblings can be produced this way, I'll find that too). If all
- >these conceptums are citizens, then it should be possible to populate Rhode
- >Island with more citizens than the rest of the country combined. Thus, in the
- >House of Representatives, the will of Rhode Island can hold sway over the will
- >of the rest of the country. For that matter, the entire population of Rhode
- >Island can be sent to Congress and the rest of the country would be supporting
- >the Rhode Islanders.
-
- >Similarly, the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Ammendment would require a
- >change to the IRS tax code, allowing the conceptum to be used as a tax
- >deduction for personal income taxes (currently, only a person who is born is
- >allowed for the purposes of deductions). What about those rare women who can
- >conceive but who cannot bear a conceptum to term? If such a woman concieves
- >once per month, do we allow her to claim 12 tax deductions for the year?
-
- You are being stupid. Laws are being changed constantly to adjust to
- changes in society. There is no reason why these insignificant and
- thoroughly nitpicky little details couldn't be accomodated.
-
-
- >These are the problems inherent in the concept of conceptum as citizen.
-
- Once again, it's not even necessary that the preborn be a citizen. As
- long as it was legally defined as a person that would guarantee it's right
- to life.
-
-
- >:
- >: >SJM
- >:
- >: Edward Simmonds
- >:
- >:
- >: - My opinions are my own... but they are also perfectly correct -
-
- >Your opinions are your own, but they contain some flaws.
-
- Never have, never will.
-
- >--
- >Mike McAngus |You are a fluke of the Universe. You have no
-
-
- Edward Simmonds
-
-