Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
The constitution is not and never has been infallible. To imagine that the Constitution of the United States is absolute in natural law as relates to human beings is a legally defective perspective. Simply because something is legislated does not constitute absolute morality.
Also, not everything should "have" to be held to a legislative standard. Human beings are naturally expected to exercise a collective value system which includes a respect for all human life, when living among eachother as a society. This deals with, among other things, self regulation self respect and the lack of encroachment of the chosen quality of life within that community within any society.
Anne Marie
And anyway, this is not a statement of fact concerning the actual wording of the Constitution. What this REALLY is is a statement of fact concerning one group of people's INTERPRETATION - colored with their own biases and agenda - of the wording of the Constitution. It is not the Constitution that does not grant unborn chidren rights or "personhood", which the Constitution doesn't grant to anyone inasmuch as it is a made-up concept invented specifically to split hairs and rationalize on this very subject.
Quite simply, if society chooses to define fetuses as people, then they have Constitutional rights. If it does not, they don't. But the Constitution itself doesn't speak to who is and is not a person at all.
The Constitution, through it's interpretation of Property Rights and Right of Privacy purports to define the value of the life of a fetus as an exclusive arbitration by it's mother of its inherent worth, whereby she can either consider her pregnancy the makings of a human being and bring the child to term, or simply cut out what she has a right to consider simply a piece of her flesh. And most often, actually 83% of abortions in this country, that are not the result of rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother, are performed to accommodate the current lifestyle of the mother.
Anne Marie
The Constitution does nothing of the sort. Please show me ANYWHERE that the Constitution mentions fetuses or pregnancy in any context, let alone to quantify them under the heading of "property rights". Once again, you are talking about a specific group's interpretation and extrapolation of the Constitution, not the Constitution itself.