Word: fetus
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...14th Amendment guarantees all citizens "equal protection of the laws." It is the part of the Constitution used to bar state discrimination against blacks, women and so on. What, then, would it mean to guarantee fetuses equal protection of the laws? People who hire professional killers to eliminate their born children are prosecuted for murder. Under equal protection, the same would have to be true of women who hire doctors to eliminate their fetuses. Furthermore, many states execute people who deliberately kill, or arrange for the killing of, innocent human beings. The Republican platform is quite enthusiastic about this practice...
...anti-abortion activists believe that a fetus is as human as you and me. Abortion for them is murder, plain and simple. And Medicaid funding of abortion is nothing less than state-sponsored execution. If you believe that, how can you not picket abortion clinics and fight for a Constitutional amendment? If murder is happening in America's hospitals every day, how can you not fight to stop...
...Buchanan actually talks some sense when he refuses to consider exceptions in the cases of rape or incest. If the fetus is a human life, then its survival trumps everything else, except the life of the mother. The circumstances under which it was conceived are irrelevant. As Buchanan's campaign manager was quoted a few days ago in The New York Times, "You wouldn't say that you could kill a 1-year-old child because it was conceived in a rape...
...many Republicans, abortion is merely one of a host of issues--the death penalty, school choice, flag-burning--that supposedly stand for a commitment to values in the face of moral decay in America. These people, Bob Dole among them, don't believe in the sanctity of the human fetus, and they compromise in the cases of rape and incest...
...moderate wing of the party finally has had the good sense to expose the hypocrisy of that position. Once the issue of life is gone, no one in good conscience can support antiabortion legislation that hurts the poor alone. Either you believe a fetus is human or you don't. If most Republicans have their doubts, they should have the freedom of choice--to take a more liberal stance on abortion...