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Offline Frank Archer

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The Unborn, Free Speech and the Coming Culture War
« on: November 06, 2014, 05:22:54 am »
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano writes:

There are two great freedoms being assaulted under the radar that will soon come to the fore: the freedom to live and the freedom to speak. Both parties use abortion as a litmus test. You want the Democratic nomination for any federal or state office; you need to support a woman’s right to abortion. You want the Republican nomination for any federal or state office; you better claim that you are pro-life.

I say “claim” because that’s all Republicans need to do to satisfy each other. If Republicans truly were pro-life, they’d have passed a one-paragraph statute when they ran the Congress and George W. Bush was in the White House that legally defined a fetus in the womb as a natural person. Of course, morally and biologically, a fetus is a natural person. The fetus has human parents and possesses a fully actualizable human genome — all the genetic materials needed to grow and flourish and possess self-directed humanity. But no such legislation ever came.

Since the Supreme Court denied personhood to every fetus in 1973, much as it had done to African-Americans in 1857, more than 44,000,000 babies have met the abortionists’ vacuum and scalpel. Will a newly revived Republican Congress address personhood to the abortionist in chief in the White House? Don’t hold your breath.

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Re: The Unborn, Free Speech and the Coming Culture War
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2014, 09:55:21 am »
Can't really blame the GOP for not legislating it - it'd be like putting a law on the books saying gravity pulls downwards. That a fetus is, barring accidents, an independant and unique living being is not subject to debate. It is already acknowledged in most jurisdictions - a person who commits assault on a pregnant woman, resulting in the loss of the child, can be charged with murder.

Hindsight is 20/20 - but can you honestly say you could see how ridiculous the contortions would get from 14 years ago?
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