koshergrl
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Actually, my statement was in response to your answer to the question of what authority you would use, when those badly written, irrational laws no longer exist. Your response was, "God", so that assumes that is your authority without those laws in place.Who's legal authority extends exactly to the limits of your church's walls. So, leave him there.You're right Current law - badly written, and irrational - under specific circumstances, with contradictory caveats within the language of the laws themselves, define fetuses as persons. Which is why I am confident that, when we have a Supreme Court that no longer rules according to a conservative agenda, those laws will be overturned, and states will wither have to accept that fetusess are not persons, or they will have to redraft those laws without the inherent contradictions - in other words, without the abortion exceptions. Good luck with that. I'd be willing to bet that not one of those "fetal homicide" laws will be passed without that contradictory clause. So, when that happens, when those laws no longer exist, what authority will you use to justify calling a fetus a person?Well RvW is the mother of all irrational, badly written and unconstitutional law, so it makes sense that the laws that have to address it are confusing as well. Probably very frustrating for baby killers.
And the point stands, whether or not you agree with it, the laws do exist that define children in utero as persons, despite your assertion to the contrary.
See, that's the problem with relying on laws, particularly bad laws, to justify a position. Eventually, those laws will no longer exist. Where is your authority, then?
God. The same authority cited by our founding fathers when they crafted the constitution.
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And we're back to the starting point.
The legal authority certainly exists, whether you like it or not. Hence fetal homicide laws.
My response remains the same. When those laws are gone, "God's" legal authority extends to exactly the dimensions of your church's walls. Leave him there.
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Yes, our constitution doesn't grant human rights, it simply protects them.
Human rights do exist outside of law, and society recognizes this. That's why you can still be convicted of war crimes, murder, crimes against humanity even if, while you were committing them, those crimes were considered "legal".
Human Rights emanate not from our laws. They come from our Creator. Which of course our founders recognized and stated, repeatedly, during the formation of this great nation.
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Declaration of Independence - Text Transcript