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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (206921)	12/4/2001 11:20:39 AM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I'm not asking for the right to vote for fetuses. As you correctly point out, that right is reserved for older persons. The integral question for me is, when should an unborn child be given Constitutional protection. I think that it is impossible to draw a line anywhere in between conception and exiting the womb (even exiting the womb is not considered to be a done deal until the cord is cut, by some). The issue of "viability" as being the key moment is hard to substantiate, given the fact that this point is always changing, and never the same for each unborn child. Yet, generally the only difference between a 7 month pregnancy delivery and an undelivered 7 month unborn pregnancy is the location of the child. Why should the unborn child have any less protection? Additionally, I believe that there are cases where pregnant women were murdered, and the murderer was charged with double homicide. Yet, when a woman says take it out, it's not murder. This is a paradox, since society calls it a capital crime to kill, but not to abort (same end). These things considered, it seems for me that the only logical (and long term) solution is to say that conception is in fact the point at which a fetus has Constitutional protection. I do have one area of gray that I am willing to subscribe to, and I have been criticized by my more conservative bretheren for supporting it. I think that a fertilized egg alone is not sufficient to be deemed worthy of protection. I think that the egg must be implanted on the uterus to be worthy of that consideration. (I am constantly looking at this point for revision, given all of the new technology out there.) That's enough for now... ~SB~