If you're one of those people who think a pre-born baby is not a person,
think again.
http://www.personhoodusa.com/what-is-personhood
Personhood is the cultural and legal recognition of the equal and
unalienable rights of human beings
When the term “person” is applied to a particular class of human beings,
it is an affirmation of their individual rights. In other words, to be a
person is to be protected by a series of God-given rights and
constitutional guarantees such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.
This terrifies the pro-abortion foes!
They know that if we clearly define the preborn baby as a person, they
will have the same right to life as all Americans do!
This then also begs the question, is every human being a person?
There is a very real sense in which the need to answer this second
question is, in itself, an absurdity.
If you look up the word "person" in your average dictionary (we'll use
Webster's), you'll find something like this: "Person n. A human being."
A person, simply put, is a human being. This fact should be enough. The
intrinsic humanity of unborn children, by definition, makes them
persons, and should, therefore, guarantee their protection under the law.
Personhood holds the key to filling the “Blackmun Hole,” a startling
admission in the Roe v. Wade majority opinion:
In 1973, the science of fetology was not able to prove, as it can now,
that a living, fully human, and unique individual exists at the moment
of fertilization and continues to grow through various stages of
development in a continuum until death.
However, pick up any embryology book today and you will find that your
life and every person’s life began at fertilization.
If the Court considers the humanity of the preborn child, it could end
this age-based discrimination and restore the legal protections of
personhood to the preborn.
For nearly forty years, however, this has not been the case. The
situation we are left with is that, in America, there is a group of
living human beings who have no protection under the law and are being
killed en masse every day. It is truly astounding, but not wholly
unprecedented.
Throughout history, certain people groups have felt the brunt of a
system which denied their humanity, stripped their personhood, and
subjected them to horrors beyond measure. While the legal framework that
made such horrors possible has now been removed, it remains firmly in
place for preborn Americans.
There remains one, and only one, group of human beings in the United
States today for which being human is not enough. The inconvenience of
their existence has resulted in this shameful injustice.
What is a person? A person is a human being at every age.
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J Young
Jvis...@live.com