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- From: phz@cadence.com (Pete Zakel)
- Subject: Re: Another good reason not to vote for Bush
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.000709.29640@Cadence.COM>
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:07:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug14.121232.13337@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz) writes:
- >Damn. I have got to get a copy of that Constitution everyone else
- >is using. I keep seeing people talk about the "right to life"
- >as it were a constitutional statement, and then I go home and
- >check my copies of the Constitution and there's nothing in there
- >about a right to life.
-
- Actually, the Constitution does *not* specifically mention a right to life.
- It *does* specifically say that there are rights that are not specifically
- mentioned that cannot be abrogated.
-
- The Declaration of Independence, which was used to promote our right to
- self-government, DOES specifically mention rights to "life, liberty and
- the perfuit of happinefs" (sorry, I have trouble resisting transliterating
- the stylized esses as efs B^). Since the Declaration of Independence is
- the founding document of our country, many Constitutional scholars maintain
- that those three rights go without saying, as our country was formed within
- the context of that document.
-
- But in any case, rights have always been specifically held to apply only to
- born people, not to blastocysts, zygotes, embryos or fetuses, and to not
- apply fully to born people who are under the age of majority.
-
- -Pete Zakel
- (phz@cadence.com or ..!uunet!cadence!phz)
-
- And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a
- horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical
- columnar supports, which we call legs. The tables in this laboratory,
- ma'am, are as advanced in design as one will find anywhere in the
- world.
- -- Michael Frayn, "The Tin Men"
-