06-13-2019, 04:23 PM
(06-13-2019, 03:55 PM)bfine32 Wrote: All are created equal not "brought into personhood (sounds like a made up word)" equal. So if we are all created equal why does the created child not have the right to live. liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
But the statement starts with "all men," or in modern terms, all people. The unborn are not included in that. They are not equal as they are not persons under the law.
(06-13-2019, 03:55 PM)bfine32 Wrote: You stated we are restricting her liberty if we made abortion illegal. Why are we not restricting her liberty because killing her 1 day old is illegal?
I never said it wasn't; however, those two scenarios are not comparable for obvious reasons that make this argument absurd.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
