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>In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court cheapened the value of human life when it
>ruled that abortion was a so-called "constitutional right."
Roe v. Wade did no such thing. As the anti-choice crowd likes to forget,
before the Supreme Court ruling, the majority of the individual states
allowed abortions, and if Roe v. Wade were to be overturned, it would
just reestablish the state of affairs that existed before then -- in
other words, the majority of citizens of the U.S. could still avail
themselves of an abortion, except for the unlucky ones who live in the
minority of states which did not allow abortions to be performed. If
citizens in those states live close enough to a neighboring state that
does allow abortions, or if they have the finances to be able to afford
to travel and stay overnight in one of these states, then they too would
still be able to avail themselves of legal and safe abortions.
>Those who drafted the Declaration of Independence believed that government
>had a duty to protect life.
No they didn't. Quote one passage of the Declaration of Independence
that states that. Even the Constitution and the Bill of Rights don't say
that. What they DO say is that the power to govern resides with the
individual citizen and with the states in which those citizens reside,
and that the federal government doesn't have a right to interfere or
intervene.
The Declaration of Independence declares that one has a right to "life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", and it was referring to adults,
not children, and certainly not to fetuses. In fact, if one were to
really nit-pik, they really only were referring to adult white
land-owning males. Women, blacks, native Americans, servants and slaves
and non-land-owning mill workers were NOT included...
The drafters of the Declaration believed that the government had a duty
NOT TO INTERFERE in the lives of citizens, and indeed the whole "raison
d'etre" for the Declaration was due to the government's perceived
meddling in the affairs of its colonial citizens.
No way did the signers of the Declaration believe that it was a
government's duty to 'protect life', except perhaps in regards to the
colonists' desire to encroach upon the lands of native Americans which
Parliament had assured the Indians would remain theirs...
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