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Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived

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To: Lane3 who wrote (3508)12/28/2002 4:49:41 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 7720
 
If you consider a fetus or an embryo a person and can persuade yourself that the Constitution thinks so, too

Its not necessary for the constitution to think so. Its only necessary that it doesn't explicitly state otherwise.

If you think it can, you are either extremely sentimental about the matter or you have more confidence in government than I do.

I'm not so sure it would do a great job but an imperfect job would be better then no protection at all IMO.

We could end up with a law that says we must continue life support for a fetus when we would not do so for a baby. What a mess that would be.

Even in a country that would support the right to life cause or in a country that would support the idea that its a matter for the states because the constitution says nothing about it (and then of course within that framework in a state that supports the pro life cause), it would be unlikely that we would get something like that. Any unusual life support would probably happen after the child is born, in which case the law would be the same as it would be for any other baby.

Tim
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