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H.R. 618, The Right to Life Act (3 comments ↓)
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H.R. 618 would implement equal protection under the 14th article of amendment to the Constitution for the right to life of each born and preborn human person.
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Dragonish
There is no agreement among clergy or scientists as to when life begins. Thus, it is a matter of what one believes. In other words, a matter of faith. This bill would legislate a religious belief and is not only unconstitutional but un-American. America was founded on a tenet of religious freedom and freedom of thought. Since it is possible to believe that life does not begin at conception, and since there is no scientific evidence to counter this belief, then to deny someone the ability to hold this belief and act on it is unconstitutional and un-American. Whether one supports a woman's right to choose or not, this bill would deny women the right to freedom of thought and religion.
Crispy
Sorry Drag, even pro-abortion groups agree that pregnancy begins at implantation. This is only a few days after fertilization. A fertilized egg is a unique living being with all of the characteristics of life (growth through metabolism, respiration, motion, etc.) that most newborn children have, except the ability to breathe air. Thus the evidence is quite clear that life begins at conception, in spite of what you may or may not believe. In the past people didn't believe that people of other races were "human", which is why we needed the 14th Amendment. With or without this act, women are free to think or worship as they please. The KKK and Planned Parenthood are free to believe what they like, but they are not free to lynch people.
Phil312
I will never understand how people think that killing your unborn child makes you free.
And Drag, you are wrong about "clergy"...excerp from Catholic Bishops.
Since its beginnings, Christianity has maintained a firm and clear teaching on the sacredness of human life. Jesus Christ emphasized this in his teaching and ministry. Abortion was rejected in the earliest known Christian manual of discipline, the Didache.
Early Church fathers likewise condemned abortion as the killing of innocent human life. A third century Father of the Church, Tertullian, called it "accelerated homicide." Early Church councils considered it one of the most serious crimes. Even during periods when Aristotle's theory of "delayed ensoulment" led Church law to assign different penalties to earlier and later abortions, abortion at any stage was still considered a grave evil.
BUT since some people are in doubt, why don't we give the unborn the benefit of that doubt.