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- From: mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (Mike A. McAngus)
- Subject: Re: Blackmun calls the Roe v. Wade dividing line "arbitrary"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan02.020537.4501@jcnpc.cmhnet.org>
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- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 02:05:37 GMT
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- (vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
-
- [mega snip]
-
- : Once again, Ms. Smith went and had sex without using her brain. Murder
- : is murder. There is no such thing as a potential citizen except in the legal
- : sense. Morally and scientifically life begins at fertilization, and so does
- : citizenhood.
-
- This contravenes the 14th Amendment which states: "All persons BORN or
- naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are
- citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. ..."
- Fetuses are not citizens.
-
- Let's assume that the conceptum (z/e/f) is a citizen. Then, by the Equal
- Protection clause and the Apportionment Clause of the 14th Ammendment, the
- conceptum must be counted for the purposes of representation within the House
- of Representatives.
-
- From my past readings (I don't have the books with me now, but I will find them
- in the library) I have learned that it is possible to separate the cells of the
- blastomere and produce effective twins, quadruplets, etc. (I don't remember how
- many identical siblings can be produced this way, I'll find that too). If all
- these conceptums are citizens, then it should be possible to populate Rhode
- Island with more citizens than the rest of the country combined. Thus, in the
- House of Representatives, the will of Rhode Island can hold sway over the will
- of the rest of the country. For that matter, the entire population of Rhode
- Island can be sent to Congress and the rest of the country would be supporting
- the Rhode Islanders.
-
- Similarly, the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Ammendment would require a
- change to the IRS tax code, allowing the conceptum to be used as a tax
- deduction for personal income taxes (currently, only a person who is born is
- allowed for the purposes of deductions). What about those rare women who can
- conceive but who cannot bear a conceptum to term? If such a woman concieves
- once per month, do we allow her to claim 12 tax deductions for the year?
-
-
- These are the problems inherent in the concept of conceptum as citizen.
-
- :
- : >SJM
- :
- : Edward Simmonds
- :
- :
- : - My opinions are my own... but they are also perfectly correct -
-
- Your opinions are your own, but they contain some flaws.
- --
- Mike McAngus |You are a fluke of the Universe. You have no
- mam@jcnpc.cmhnet.org |right to be here, and whether you can hear it
- The Truth is still the Truth |or not the Universe is laughing behind your
- Even if you choose to ignore it.|back. -- National Lampoon, Deteriorata
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