(Category: SOCIAL POLICY)
The 14th Amendment forbids states from depriving a “person” life, liberty or property without due process.
Some states have defined the unborn child as a “person”. This is key, because it means that once an unborn child is legally designated/identified as a “person”, it is protected under the 14th Amendment.
Does that mean the woman can sue for fifth Amendment violations?
To vague. if your intention is to ban abortion because it’s a life at conception, just state that.
I don’t think that is going to happen. You are basically saying that you want anyone who has an abortion to go to jail for murder. People don’t agree on this issue which is why it is used politically to cause people to lose elections. If we are being realistic you have to start with doing a lot of evangelizing before that would come to fruition. That’s the best place to start for that position. Otherwise that would never pass.
There are Countries that do start birthdays on the day of conception rather than the day of birth. So for everyone living there that is the belief.
The 14th amendment ALREADY includes “unborn children” in the definition of “person.”
This does NOT mean that the 14th amendment automatically equates to an abortion ban. It simply gives our federal and state governments the right to create laws to address the unborn’s child’s constitutional interests regarding abortion.
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@AshleyLuna you are just simply wrong on this point. The 14th ammendment does not at all recognize the unborn child as a person, but only refers to those persons “born.”
If you were correct Roe vs Wade would never have been a thing - obviously you are wrong. Read the ammendment , its plain
Chris, no, false. The word “person” does NOT specify that the person must be born. In fact, the laws at the time, and the people who wrote that amendment, recognized “person” to include unborn children.
Again, please feel free to watch this ten minute video to demonstrate the good news to you. The constitution ALREADY grants the federal and state government the right to protect unborn babies from abortion.
Of course the people who wrote it at the time understood the unborn to be persons and abortion was unimaginable to them so they did not mention the unborn in the 14th ammendment and that is why we have abortion as it is today - i.e. there is no formal recognition of the unborn as persons - there simply isn’t, in fact its exactly the opposite, they ard not considered to be persons under the constitution or current laws! Its why the pro-abort death cult co-opted the language and started using the term “fetus” to refer to the baby in the womb. Baby is cute and PERSONal while “fetus” is faceless and foreign.
My proposal would easily and simply rectify that situation and SCOTUS would rapidly be called upon to rule on it, and abortion would become illegal by default. Problem solved - simply easily and readily with no compromise or acquiescence with evil and the culture of death that almost all other proposals contain, and thus are doomed to failure.