that prevailed at the time the Constitution was adopted, and that was frozen into
the understanding of the term "person" at the moment of ratification in 1789. That
was what the word meant then and the only way that meaning can be changed is to
amend the Constitution. Adhering to what a law meant at the time of adoption is
what it means to have a law, and that especially applies to a supreme law -- the
Constitution. All of this other argument might go to amending the Constitution,
but it is otherwise irrelevant. Science has nothing to do with it.
But the key thing that does dominate the debate in our time is that most pregnant
females don't feel their fetus is a person prior to birth, and if they don't want
to bring the pregnancy to term, there is not much that anyone can do to stop them.
Law and public policy could put all kinds of impediments, but in the final
analysis the women will do what they want, and if you can't persuade them to do
otherwise, all else is futile.
-- Jon
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