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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Establishment Clause originally meant only that no one should be forced to attend, or tithe to, any church. SCOTUS has expanded it to mean there should not be any government endorsement of religion, although where courts will draw the line next year has some of the unpredictability of Casey's “undue burden”.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Establishment Clause originally meant only that no one should be forced to attend, or tithe to, any church. SCOTUS has expanded it to mean there should not be any government endorsement of religion, although where courts will draw the line next year has some of the unpredictability of Casey's “undue burden”.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I guess schools can teach the Bible as history, but cannot say it is true. But in the controversy before us, it would be very helpful to know if what the Bible says is true about unborn babies being “persons”, “infused with a soul”, or conscious.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I guess schools can teach the Bible as history, but cannot say it is true. But in the controversy before us, it would be very helpful to know if what the Bible says is true about unborn babies being “persons”, “infused with a soul”, or conscious.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For example, Luke 1:44 says unborn babies are not only conscious but able to discern a righteous voice and jump for joy, indicating ability to choose good over evil. Psalm 139:13-16 describes a “person” before there are any limbs. Isaiah 1:5 says our mission in life is assigned even before conception.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>For example, Luke 1:44 says unborn babies are not only conscious but able to discern a righteous voice and jump for joy, indicating ability to choose good over evil. Psalm 139:13-16 describes a “person” before there are any limbs. Isaiah 1:5 says our mission in life is assigned even before conception.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Are we allowed to take judicial notice of what God says? Because if God is correct, we have barrels of baby blood on our hands. As Roe put it,  “the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Are we allowed to take judicial notice of what God says? Because if God is correct, we have barrels of baby blood on our hands. As Roe put it,  “the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment.”</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As Roe acknowledged,  it is crucial to “establish” whether the babies we are killing are “persons”, meaning “infused with a soul”. But how do we know when a baby gets  a soul? What human science can answer? Science can’t even detect a soul in a judge.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As Roe acknowledged,  it is crucial to “establish” whether the babies we are killing are “persons”, meaning “infused with a soul”. But how do we know when a baby gets  a soul? What human science can answer? Science can’t even detect a soul in a judge.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote></ins>“When those trained in... theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to...when life begins.”<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></blockquote></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although it would have made more sense to consult their source: the Bible.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although it would have made more sense to consult their source: the Bible.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But if government can’t endorse one religion over another, how shall we weight the Bible’s teaching that protectable human life begins at Minute One, against teachings of Edgar Cayce or some Jewish theories that the soul doesn’t enter the body until about birth?  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But if government can’t endorse one religion over another, how shall we weight the Bible’s teaching that protectable human life begins at Minute One, against teachings of Edgar Cayce or some Jewish theories that the soul doesn’t enter the body until about birth?  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Even if prohibition of “establishment of religion” means the Bible should not be trusted more than other literature, does it require us to trust the Bible less than other literature? We test the credibility of all other literature much the same way we test the credibility of a murder witness. We test those claims we can. If they pass our scrutiny, we give more weight to those claims we are unable to test but which we need to confirm.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Even if prohibition of “establishment of religion” means the Bible should not be trusted more than other literature, does it require us to trust the Bible less than other literature? We test the credibility of all other literature much the same way we test the credibility of a murder witness. We test those claims we can. If they pass our scrutiny, we give more weight to those claims we are unable to test but which we need to confirm.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By this process, we can note the overwhelming scrutiny the Bible has survived, from every conceivable scientific discipline, and compare that with the near-zero scrutiny applied to other religious writings, often because other writings have few claims that are testable. Is it not lawful to note that comparison, during our inquiry whether the babies we are killing are human beings with conscious souls (Luke 1:44)?</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>By this process, we can note the overwhelming scrutiny the Bible has survived, from every conceivable scientific discipline, and compare that with the near-zero scrutiny applied to other religious writings, often because other writings have few claims that are testable. Is it not lawful to note that comparison, during our inquiry whether the babies we are killing are human beings with conscious souls (Luke 1:44)?</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Religions and philosophies which say other races, colors, and religions are born for slavery and cruel death, should be expected, on the question of who is fully human and when, to give an answer that justifies their cruel prejudice. Such an answer has limited value to a nation with a 14th Amendment.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Exodus 12:49, by contrast, is the precursor of our 14th Amendment, so we may expect the Bible’s principles to support equality for all.  In fact, with the verses before, the passage gives even immigrants the full rights of citizens, upon meeting citizen standards. That is even more than our 14th  Amendment does, as applied so far: our “undocumented” are given some protection, but not the Fundamental Right of Liberty.13</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Exodus 12:49, by contrast, is the precursor of our 14th Amendment, so we may expect the Bible’s principles to support equality for all.  In fact, with the verses before, the passage gives even immigrants the full rights of citizens, upon meeting citizen standards. That is even more than our 14th  Amendment does, as applied so far: our “undocumented” are given some protection, but not the Fundamental Right of Liberty.13</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Only the Bible calls for freedom of speech and religion and a vote for all. Our very definition of “law”, as rules binding equally upon all - even judges and lawmakers,  1 Samuel 10:25, is exclusively Biblical. Where do you find it in religions without Bible influence?  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Only the Bible calls for freedom of speech and religion and a vote for all. Our very definition of “law”, as rules binding equally upon all - even judges and lawmakers,  1 Samuel 10:25, is exclusively Biblical. Where do you find it in religions without Bible influence?  </div></td></tr>
</table>DaveLeachhttp://savetheworld.saltshaker.us/index.php?title=Valentine_Letter_to_Supreme_Court_Justices:_outlaw_baby_killing_in_EVERY_state&diff=49003&oldid=prevDaveLeach: /* What has changed in 50 years? */2022-02-15T15:55:30Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">What has changed in 50 years?</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mr. Stewart eloquently detailed the ways Roe and Casey have complicated the lives of judges and lawyers. The precedents are too hard to figure out. It is nearly impossible to predict how a judge will rule on a new regulation. This reason to repeal Roe was a theme December 1 and in several briefs.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mr. Stewart eloquently detailed the ways Roe and Casey have complicated the lives of judges and lawyers. The precedents are too hard to figure out. It is nearly impossible to predict how a judge will rule on a new regulation. This reason to repeal Roe was a theme December 1 and in several briefs.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Nothing different? Has our expanding knowledge of what God is creating from the first cell division done nothing to elevate our reverence for unborn life? 1973 was 35 years before the first human chromosome was decoded.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> 50 years ago Justice Blackmun said one definition of “person” is “recognizably human”, but he was deceived by fraudulent illustrations in Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary that made embryos of humans unrecognizable as humans, by making them look almost identical to embryos of monkeys,  pigs and rabbits. First published in 1866, Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations were so obviously fraudulent, even to medical researchers in 1866, that a tribunal of his own university convicted him. He blamed his illustrator for the “error”, without admitting that he drew his own illustrations. (Russell Grigg, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">“Fraud Rediscovered,” www.</del>creation. com/fraud-rediscovered)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Nothing different? Has our expanding knowledge of what God is creating from the first cell division done nothing to elevate our reverence for unborn life? 1973 was 35 years before the first human chromosome was decoded.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>50 years ago Justice Blackmun said one definition of “person” is “recognizably human”, but he was deceived by fraudulent illustrations in Dorland’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary that made embryos of humans unrecognizable as humans, by making them look almost identical to embryos of monkeys,  pigs and rabbits. First published in 1866, Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations were so obviously fraudulent, even to medical researchers in 1866, that a tribunal of his own university convicted him. He blamed his illustrator for the “error”, without admitting that he drew his own illustrations. (Russell Grigg, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">“[http://</ins>creation.com/fraud-rediscovered <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Fraud Rediscovered"</ins>)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>“His piece de resistance was his manipulation of the drawing of a human embryo by Ecker. He changed the details of the human eye significantly, made the human posterior twice its actual length, took 2 mm off the head, and like the Macaque, removed the arms, legs and heart” (“The Life of Ernst Haeckel,” <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Creation Worldview Ministries, www.</del>creationworldview.org/articles_view.asp?id=29)<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote></ins>“His piece de resistance was his manipulation of the drawing of a human embryo by Ecker. He changed the details of the human eye significantly, made the human posterior twice its actual length, took 2 mm off the head, and like the Macaque, removed the arms, legs and heart” (“The Life of Ernst Haeckel,” <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[http://</ins>creationworldview.org/articles_view.asp?id=29 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Creation Worldview Ministries]</ins>) <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></blockquote></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> “A major error of Haeckel’s embryo chart is the misidentification of “gill slits” on the human embryo. In fact, they are not gill slits at all. They have no respiratory function. “The so-called ‘gill slits’ are really wrinkles in the throat region. This body tissue becomes the palatine tonsils, middle ear canal, parathyroid gland, and thymus. ... These folds in the neck region of the mammalian embryo are not gills in any sense of the word and never have anything to do with breathing. They are merely inward folds, or wrinkles, in the neck region resulting from the sharply down-turned head and protruding heart of the developing embryo” (Alan Gillen, Body by Design, p. 33)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote></ins>“A major error of Haeckel’s embryo chart is the misidentification of “gill slits” on the human embryo. In fact, they are not gill slits at all. They have no respiratory function. “The so-called ‘gill slits’ are really wrinkles in the throat region. This body tissue becomes the palatine tonsils, middle ear canal, parathyroid gland, and thymus. ... These folds in the neck region of the mammalian embryo are not gills in any sense of the word and never have anything to do with breathing. They are merely inward folds, or wrinkles, in the neck region resulting from the sharply down-turned head and protruding heart of the developing embryo” (Alan Gillen, Body by Design, p. 33)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></blockquote></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">    </del>“These disciplines variously approached the question in terms of the point at which the embryo or fetus became ‘formed’ or recognizably human, or in terms of when a ‘person’ came into being, that is, infused with a <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">‘soul’ </del>or ‘animated.’” Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113, 133.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote></ins>“These disciplines variously approached the question in terms of the point at which the embryo or fetus became ‘formed’ or <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>recognizably human<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>, or in terms of when a ‘person’ came into being, that is, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>infused with a <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">‘soul'''’ </ins>or ‘animated.’” <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Roe v. Wade,<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>410 US 113, 133.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></blockquote></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But there is one difference I pray will change: the disinclination of judges to think “Since babies of humans are humans, why doesn't that mean killing them is murder? If abortion is murder, and no court can deliberately legalize murder without undermining the reason for courts, shouldn’t we  rule that no state can legalize murder?</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>18 U.S.C. 1841(d) establishes the fact that unborn babies of humans are humans. But is this fact, established in clause (d), neutralized by clause (c) which does not “permit [authorize] the prosecution of any person for...an abortion for which the consent of the pregnant woman...has been obtained”?  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><u></ins>18 U.S.C. 1841(d)<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></u> </ins>establishes the fact that unborn babies of humans are humans. But is this fact, established in clause (d), neutralized by clause (c) which does not “permit [authorize] the prosecution of any person for...an abortion for which the consent of the pregnant woman...has been obtained”?  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> That mistake was made by prolife leaders and Republican Congressmen who said “By its express terms, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act does not…in any way affect nor alter, the ability of a woman to have an abortion.” - <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">House Judiciary Cmte, 2</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">11</del>/<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">2004 www.</del>nrIc.org/uploads/unbornvictims/ UVVAHJC report2004.pdf</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Nor do legislatures need Congress’ past “permission” to obey the Constitution. The fact that “life begins” at fertilization established in Section (d), combined with section 5 of the 14th Amendment which gives Congress the final word on disputes about the application of “equal protection of the laws”, requires all states to outlaw abortion.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Footnote #54 of Roe. Evidence of Life is not disproved by an “exception...for the purpose of saving the life of the mother” and/or by not charging the mother with being a “principal or an accomplice” to murder, as Roe’s footnote 54 is often interpreted.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Not directly, and not yet. But as Democrats pointed out in House debate, that finding of fact, if ever argued in defense of a major abortion restriction, would be a powerful challenge. They didn’t believe (d) was neutralized by (c). Perhaps  because they understood that a law not yet in step with facts does not block future lawmakers, state or federal, from correcting deficiencies.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Although the ideal of law is equal protection of all humans, “innocent until proved guilty” illustrates the inability of courts, when proof is scarce, to equally protect everyone from crime, without that inability proving that crime victims aren’t human!</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> A legal reason for stiffer penalties for abortionists than for moms is (1) to get moms to testify against abortionists, and (2) the greater ease for juries of imputing culpability to adult doctors than to mothers suffering varying degrees of youth, deception (by culture, schools, pastors, and judges) and pressure (by family and fathers).  (See this principle in Luke 12:47-48.) A legal reason for a “life of the mother” exception is that while we are inspired by people who give their lives for others, we can’t require them to by law.12 Even our Good Samaritan laws, requiring people at serious accident scenes to help, are sparse and inconsistent<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Nor do legislatures need Congress’ past “permission” to obey the Constitution. The fact that “life begins” at fertilization established in Section (d), combined with section 5 of the 14th Amendment which gives Congress the final word on disputes about the application of “equal protection of the laws”, requires all states to outlaw abortion.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> It would be hypocritical to charge aborting moms with being accessories to murder, without first charging judges. The degree to which laws fail to give “equal protection” to all humans is no evidence of the degree to which people are not humans. Such a legal theory is absurd, unknown outside Footnote 54, and cannot be taken seriously</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><u></ins>Footnote #54 of Roe<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></u></ins>. Evidence of Life is not disproved by an “exception...for the purpose of saving the life of the mother” and/or by not charging the mother with being a “principal or an accomplice” to murder, as Roe’s footnote 54 is often interpreted.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the ideal of law is equal protection of all humans, “innocent until proved guilty” illustrates the inability of courts, when proof is scarce, to equally protect everyone from crime, without that inability proving that crime victims aren’t human!</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A legal reason for stiffer penalties for abortionists than for moms is (1) to get moms to testify against abortionists, and (2) the greater ease for juries of imputing culpability to adult doctors than to mothers suffering varying degrees of youth, deception (by culture, schools, pastors, and judges) and pressure (by family and fathers).  (See this principle in Luke 12:47-48.) A legal reason for a “life of the mother” exception is that while we are inspired by people who give their lives for others, we can’t <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>require<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>them to by law.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</ins>12<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">) </ins>Even our Good Samaritan laws, requiring people at serious accident scenes to help, are sparse and inconsistent.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> “The...equal protection clause… </del>does not <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">compel</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">..Legislatures </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">prohibit all like evils</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">or none</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A Legislature may hit at an abuse </del>which <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">it has found, even though it has failed </del>to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strike at another.” U.S. v</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Carolene Products</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">304 U.S. 144</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">151 (1938)</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><p style="color:blue;font-size:12px;">Footnote 12: Deuteronomy 20:8 illustrates how God calls us all to be heroes, but </ins>does not <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">force anyone by law; cowards may retreat from risk without penalty</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></p></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It would be hypocritical to charge aborting moms with being accessories </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">murder</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">without first charging judges</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The degree to </ins>which <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">laws fail to give “equal protection” to all humans is no evidence of the degree </ins>to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which people are not humans</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Such a legal theory is absurd</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">unknown outside Footnote 54</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and cannot be taken seriously</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> But Roe said babies aren’t people as a matter of law</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Roe said “the word ‘person’, as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, </del>does not <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">include the unborn</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">” Roe</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">410 U.S</del>. at <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">156-157</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This was based on the “observation</del>...<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">that throughout the major portion of the 19th century prevailing legal abortion practices were far freer than they are today</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">” </del></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote>“The</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">..equal protection clause… </ins>does not <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">compel</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">..Legislatures to prohibit all like evils</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">or none</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">A Legislature may hit at an abuse which it has found, even though it has failed to strike </ins>at <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">another</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">” U</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">S</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">v</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Carolene Products, 304 U</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">S</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">144</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">151 (1938)</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></blockquote></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> That acknowledges SCOTUS’ respect for lawmakers as court-recognized fact finders</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In the years since Roe the consensus of court-recognized fact finders became overwhelming. Roe has been criticized for overlooking precedents</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">including precedents cited in Roe, that affirm unborn “personhood”</del>.  </div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> But even without these facts, the above quote can’t be taken as an absolute holding, unmitigated by Roe’s statements that judges are “in no position to speculate”, but that if it is “established” that babies are people then “of course” the 14th Amendment protects their right to life. </del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> Our “unalienable rights” are not subject to our “value” to others!</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">    </del>Justice Kavanaugh: “And there will be different answers [to how many babies to murder] in Mississippi and New York, different answers in Alabama than California, because they’re two different interests at stake and the people in those states might value those interests somewhat differently. Why is [letting voters decide how many babies to murder] not the right answer?  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==But Roe ''did'' say babies aren’t people as a matter of law==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''Roe'' said “the word ‘person’, as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn.” ''Roe'', 410 U.S. at 156-157. This was based on the “observation...that throughout the major portion of the 19th century prevailing legal abortion practices were far freer than they are today.” </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">That acknowledges SCOTUS’ respect for lawmakers as court-recognized fact finders. In the years since Roe the consensus of court-recognized fact finders became overwhelming. Roe has been criticized for overlooking precedents, including precedents cited in Roe, that affirm unborn “personhood”. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But even without these facts, the above quote can’t be taken as an absolute holding, unmitigated by ''Roe’s'' statements that judges are “in no position to speculate”, but that if it is “established” that babies are people then “of course” the 14th Amendment protects their right to life. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==Our “unalienable rights” are not subject to our “value” to others!==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote></ins>Justice Kavanaugh: “And there will be different answers [to how many babies to murder] in Mississippi and New York, different answers in Alabama than California, because they’re two different interests at stake and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>people in those states might value those interests somewhat differently. Why is<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' </ins>[letting voters decide how many babies to murder] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>not the right answer?<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</blockquote></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>People in murder-loving states don't get to murder millions of people just because they love to, they don’t “value” babies, and they vote for the right to keep doing it.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>People in murder-loving states don't get to murder millions of people just because they love to, they don’t “value” babies, and they vote for the right to keep doing it.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We claim to have a rule of “law”. “Law” means restrictions that operate equally upon everyone.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We claim to have a rule of “law”. “Law” means restrictions that operate equally upon everyone.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To deliberately, consciously legalize murder has done much harm to our nation, and the more deliberately and consciously we continue, the greater the threat to all our freedoms.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To deliberately, consciously legalize murder has done much harm to our nation, and the more deliberately and consciously we continue, the greater the threat to all our freedoms.</div></td></tr>
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</table>DaveLeachhttp://savetheworld.saltshaker.us/index.php?title=Valentine_Letter_to_Supreme_Court_Justices:_outlaw_baby_killing_in_EVERY_state&diff=49000&oldid=prevDaveLeach: /* Being “scrupulously neutral” about murder is not a virtue */2022-02-15T15:27:39Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Being “scrupulously neutral” about murder is not a virtue</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">    </del>Mr. Stewart: “Justice Kavanaugh, you had it exactly right when you -- when you used the term scrupulously neutral.  I think that’s a very good description of what we're asking for here.  I think it’s the problem and the value that has evaded the Court and will continue to evade this Court under Roe and Casey, but that is...exactly right. This is a hard issue.  [Aarrgh! Not!] ... I would emphasize, Your Honor, that, as you said, there are interests here on...both sides.  There are interests for everyone involved.  This is unique for the woman.  It’s  unique for the unborn child too whose life is at stake in all of these decisions.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote></ins>Mr. Stewart: “Justice Kavanaugh, you had it exactly right when you -- when you used the term scrupulously neutral.  I think that’s a very good description of what we're asking for here.  I think it’s the problem and the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>value<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' </ins>that has evaded the Court and will continue to evade this Court under Roe and Casey, but that is...exactly right. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>This is a hard issue.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' </ins>  [Aarrgh! Not!] ... I would emphasize, Your Honor, that, as you said, there are interests here on...both sides.  There are interests for everyone involved.  This is unique for the woman.  It’s  <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>unique for the unborn child too whose life is at stake in all of these decisions<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>.”<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></blockquote></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">    </del>KAVANAUGH: [Prolifers argue that] “because the Constitution is neutral, that this Court should be scrupulously neutral on the question of abortion, neither pro-choice nor pro-life, but, because, they say, the Constitution doesn't give us the authority, we should leave it to the states and we should be scrupulously neutral on the question and that they are saying here, I think, that we should return to a position of neutrality on that contentious social issue rather than continuing to pick sides on that issue.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><blockquote></ins>KAVANAUGH: [Prolifers argue that] “because the Constitution is neutral, that this Court should be scrupulously neutral on the question of abortion, neither pro-choice nor pro-life, but, because, they say, the Constitution doesn't give us the authority, we should leave it to the states and we should be scrupulously neutral on the question and that they are saying here, I think, that we should return to a position of neutrality on that contentious social issue rather than continuing to pick sides on that issue.”<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"></blockquote></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> Plus, Section 5, the enabling clause of the 14th Amendment, gives Congress the power “to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of” the Amendment. That necessarily encompasses the authority to establish the facts that are the basis for evaluating when “equal protection of the laws” needs to be “enforced”. </del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> It gives Congress greater authority than courts to certify a discrete [distinct] class [category] of people whose enumerated rights are violated. And Congress certified, in 18 U.S.C. 1841(d), that all unborn babies, “at every stage of gestation”, are people (“members of the species homo sapiens”).</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Plus, Section 5, the enabling clause of the 14th Amendment, gives Congress the power “to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of” the Amendment. That necessarily encompasses the authority to establish the facts that are the basis for evaluating when “equal protection of the laws” needs to be “enforced”. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">It gives Congress greater authority than courts to certify a discrete [distinct] class [category] of people whose enumerated rights are violated. And Congress certified, in 18 U.S.C. 1841(d), that all unborn babies, “at every stage of gestation”, are people (“members of the species homo sapiens”).</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>18 U.S.C. 1841(d) establishes the fact that unborn babies of humans are humans. But is this fact, established in clause (d), neutralized by clause (c) which does not “permit [authorize] the prosecution of any person for...an abortion for which the consent of the pregnant woman...has been obtained”?  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> That mistake was made by prolife leaders and Republican Congressmen who said “By its express terms, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act does not…in any way affect nor alter, the ability of a woman to have an abortion.” - House Judiciary Cmte, 2/11/2004 www.nrIc.org/uploads/unbornvictims/ UVVAHJC report2004.pdf</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> That mistake was made by prolife leaders and Republican Congressmen who said “By its express terms, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act does not…in any way affect nor alter, the ability of a woman to have an abortion.” - House Judiciary Cmte, 2/11/2004 www.nrIc.org/uploads/unbornvictims/ UVVAHJC report2004.pdf</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mr. Stewart answered Justice Sotomayor about the basis for his conclusion: “advancement in...knowledge and concern about such things as fetal pain, what we know the child is doing and looks like and is fully human from...very early…an unborn life being poked and then recoiling in the way one of us would recoil.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mr. Stewart answered Justice Sotomayor about the basis for his conclusion: “advancement in...knowledge and concern about such things as fetal pain, what we know the child is doing and looks like and is fully human from...very early…an unborn life being poked and then recoiling in the way one of us would recoil.”</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When Justice Sotomayor said even dead people can recoil at a poke, she added another element that liberals need before they will accept that babies of people are people: proof that “there’s consciousness.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When Justice Sotomayor said even dead people can recoil at a poke, she added another element that liberals need before they will accept that babies of people are people: proof that “there’s consciousness.”</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Fully human” certainly implies consciousness. But to whatever extent it doesn’t, consciousness is irrelevant, as an additional element requiring separate proof. Our laws protect unconscious people.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Fully human” certainly implies consciousness. But to whatever extent it doesn’t, consciousness is irrelevant, as an additional element requiring separate proof. Our laws protect unconscious people.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ironically, Justice Sotomayor’s insistence on evidence of “consciousness” that goes beyond evidence of humanity runs headlong into religion. Because human “consciousness” has qualities that can’t be explained by any known physical process. Only the existence of a “soul” can account for them.  Fortunately for the cause of understanding reality, Roe listed “infused with a soul” as a definition of “person”, which opens the door wide to discussing what that means.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Ironically, Justice Sotomayor’s insistence on evidence of “consciousness” that goes beyond evidence of humanity runs headlong into religion. Because human “consciousness” has qualities that can’t be explained by any known physical process. Only the existence of a “soul” can account for them.  Fortunately for the cause of understanding reality, Roe listed “infused with a soul” as a definition of “person”, which opens the door wide to discussing what that means.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The capacity to choose between good and evil – to choose to behave either as an angel or as a demon – is a capacity that distinguishes humans from animals. It is not related to brain size, since animals with much larger brains lack this capacity, while babies with much smaller than adult brains demonstrate this capacity. No known physical process accounts for this ability, supporting the almost universally accepted belief that  souls attach to our bodies whose capacity for discerning good from evil and choosing between them is unrelated to physical body size. While our physical bodies have stages of development, so that we can talk about points in time before we have, for example,  arms and legs, souls have no known pre-conscious stage.  </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fortunately that is the opposite of Roe’s ruling that if it is “established” that babies are people (implied: in fact), then “of course” no state can legalize murdering them since the 14th Amendment protects their fundamental right to life.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fortunately that is the opposite of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Roe’s<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>ruling that if it is “established” that babies <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>are<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>people (implied: in fact), then “of course” <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>no<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>state can legalize murdering them since the 14th Amendment protects their fundamental right to life.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Nor has any later precedent declared it “irrelevant”, in deciding whether to protect baby killers, whether babies are people.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Nor has any later precedent declared it “irrelevant”, in deciding whether to protect baby killers, whether babies are people.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Roe said the opposite: if doctors and preachers can’t agree “when life begins”, mere judges, “at this point in the development of man’s knowledge, [are] in no position to speculate”. SCOTUS doesn’t defer to the superior expertise of doctors and preachers on a matter of law!</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Roe said the opposite: if doctors and preachers can’t agree “when life begins”, mere judges, “at this point in the development of man’s knowledge, [are] in no position to speculate”. SCOTUS doesn’t defer to the superior expertise of doctors and preachers on <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>a matter of law!<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fact finders are unanimous! How can there be any further doubt in any court that protectable life begins from Minute One, now that every court-recognized fact finder that has taken a position has so ruled?  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fact finders are unanimous! How can there be any further doubt in any court that protectable life begins from Minute One, now that every court-recognized fact finder that has taken a position has so ruled?  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">States: 38 states have “unborn victims of violence” laws. 28 states explicitly justify them through various ways of saying unborn babies are people. </del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Congress: “‘unborn child’ means a child in utero, and the term ‘child in utero’ or ‘child, who is in utero’ means a member of the species Homo Sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb”, 18 U.S.C. § 1841 (d). (Below: why this is not neutralized by section (c).)</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Juries: before judges applied the fiction that Roe made the full humanity of unborn babies irrelevant, the juries shown the Necessity Defense ruled for Operation Rescue-type door-blocking defendants because they were saving human lives. (Described at Necessity as a Defense to a Charge of Criminal Trespass in an Abortion Clinic, 48 U.Cin.L.Rev. 501, 502 (1979).8</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Expert witnesses in door-blocking cases, involving 60,000 arrests according to Operation Rescue before F.A.C.E. ended most of them, all said “(protectable human) life begins” at conception or fertilization. The same Cincinnati article reported: “If the defense is permitted, evidence is introduced that life begins at conception. This evidence [from doctors, geneticists,  or scientists] is rarely contradicted by the prosecution.…”</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>If the consensus of every court-recognized fact-finder is not enough to “establish” (Roe’s term) a fact, no fact can ever be established. If unanimous fact finders are not enough for a judge to know a fact, no judge can ever know anything.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><u>States</u>: 38 states have “unborn victims of violence” laws. 28 states explicitly justify them through various ways of saying unborn babies are people. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We know babies are people, making abortion a grave crime, the same way we know blacks are people, making their slavery a grave crime, and children are people, making their sex trafficking a grave crime. We, as a nation under a Rule of Law, know because people in every forum created by law to establish truth – juries, expert witnesses, legislatures, and a few judges that have taken a position –  (should we add “the Union army”?) have been provided with the best evidence available to humans, and have ruled, which regarding abortion is unanimous on both issues. 9</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><u>Congress</u>: “‘unborn child’ means a child in utero, and the term ‘child in utero’ or ‘child, who is in utero’ means a member of the species Homo Sapiens, at any stage of development, who is carried in the womb”, 18 U.S.C. § 1841 (d). (Below: why this is not neutralized by section (c).)</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><u>Juries</u>: before judges applied the fiction that ''Roe'' made the full humanity of unborn babies irrelevant, the juries shown the Necessity Defense ruled for Operation Rescue-type door-blocking defendants because they were saving human lives. (Described at ''Necessity as a Defense to a Charge of Criminal Trespass in an Abortion Clinic'', 48 U.Cin.L.Rev. 501, 502 (1979).(8)</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><p style="color:blue;font-size:12px;">Footnote 8: I myself was a defendant in what may have been the last trial where a jury was allowed to hear the defense. Thanks to unusual circumstances we have an official record of the fact that the humanity of the unborn was the only issue before the jury.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">  </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The case was State v. Brouillette, et al, Johnson County, Iowa, 1989. 155 of us were arrested January 26, 1989 for blocking the doors of the Emma Goldman clinic in Iowa City, Iowa. Rather than pack all 155 in the court room, 16 of us were tried in the first batch. It was assumed that what happened to them would drive what happened later to the rest; especially since J. Patrick White, the prosecuting county attorney, had told newspapers that if the first 16 were acquitted there is no way he would prosecute the others. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">  </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">But after the jury acquitted the first 16, White refused to dismiss, and that is the only reason we have an official court record documenting that the Defense of Justification was the only issue before the jury. The jury didn’t say so, but the judge did, in his ruling dismissing charges against the remaining defendants. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">  </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">He wrote that both sides stipulated to the facts. “Each Defendant stipulated to his or her identity; to entering and remaining upon public property; and to failing to leave said public property after being notified and requested to vacate by persons whose duty it was to supervise the use and maintenance of this property. By this stipulation, the sole element of the offense of Criminal Trespass which remained to be proven was whether each defendant acted without justification. The verdict of the jury indicates the State failed to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, the one essential element of the charge which remained in issue. In a trial of the remaining 138 Defendants, [one of the 155 arrested was juvenile and was not charged], a jury would be presented with this identical issue. (So the remaining charges should be dropped by the theory of Issue Preclusion.</p></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><u>Expert witnesses</u> in door-blocking cases, involving 60,000 arrests according to Operation Rescue before F.A.C.E. ended most of them, all said “(protectable human) life begins” at conception or fertilization. The same Cincinnati article reported: “If the defense is permitted, evidence is introduced that life begins at conception. This evidence [from doctors, geneticists,  or scientists] is rarely contradicted by the prosecution.…”</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>If the consensus of every court-recognized fact-finder is not enough to “establish”<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' </ins>(Roe’s term) <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>a fact, no fact can ever be established.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''' </ins>If unanimous fact finders are not enough for a judge to know a fact, no judge can ever know anything.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We know babies are people, making abortion a grave crime, the same way we know blacks are people, making their slavery a grave crime, and children are people, making their sex trafficking a grave crime. We, as a nation under a Rule of Law, know because people in every forum created by law to establish truth – juries, expert witnesses, legislatures, and a few judges that have taken a position –  (should we add “the Union army”?) have been provided with the best evidence available to humans, and have ruled, which regarding abortion is unanimous on both issues. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(9)</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><p style="color:blue;font-size:12px;">Footnote </ins>9<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">:(SCOTUS has never ruled that protectable “life” does not begin at fertilization. From January 22, 1973 to December 1, 2021, SCOTUS has abstained, saying, like the Pharisees in  Matthew 21:23-27, “we cannot tell”.  SCOTUS has declined to take cases where “when life begins” was an unavoidable issue, beginning with Doe v. Israel, 1 Cir., 1973, 482 F.2d 156, cert. denied, 416 U.S. 993)</p></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fact: abortion kills human babies. In America, a legally recognizable fact.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fact: abortion kills human babies. In America, a legally recognizable fact.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>What is irrelevant is whether babies are people as a matter of law. Laws – statutory and case laws – that protect murderers from lifesavers are unconstitutional.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Fact: killing human babies is murder, whether at two months, two years, or 20 years.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>What is irrelevant is whether babies are people <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>as a matter of law.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>Laws – statutory and case laws – that protect murderers from lifesavers are unconstitutional.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> Fact: Roe, Casey, and the rest, violate the enumerated fundamental right that trumps all others.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fact: Our Constitution does not let any court, or any state, keep murder legal.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fact: killing human babies is murder, whether at two months, two years, or 20 years.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Roe and its wicked children have cost this Court the loss of far deeper than mere respect. To the extent courts don’t outlaw but instead protect murder, they abandon their purpose, which is to oppose crime. To the extent courts side with the worst criminals against their victims, there is no further reason for them.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Don’t worry whether the public will perceive that you are moved by public pressure.10 Worry whether the most principled segment of the public – the segment that cares most whether laws conform best to the principles of Heaven or of Hell, of Good or Evil – perceive that SCOTUS justices are guilty of mass murder – genocide.  Infanticide. Worry whether that perception is correct.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fact: <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Roe, Casey,<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>and the rest, violate the enumerated fundamental right that trumps all others.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Don’t worry whether the public will think precedents will reverse “just because” of turnover on this Court.11 Worry that the public’s reason for such contentious involvement in judicial appointments has been desperate resolve to remove criminals, and this reason has a basis.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Fact: Our Constitution does not let any court, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>or any state<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>, keep murder legal.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Roe<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>and its wicked children have cost this Court the loss of far deeper than mere respect. To the extent courts don’t outlaw but instead protect murder, they abandon their purpose, which is to oppose crime. To the extent courts side with the worst criminals against their victims, there is no further reason for them.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Don’t worry whether the public will perceive that you are moved by public pressure.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</ins>10<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">) </ins>Worry whether the most principled segment of the public – the segment that cares most whether laws conform best to the principles of Heaven or of Hell, of Good or Evil – perceive that SCOTUS justices are guilty of mass murder – genocide.  Infanticide. Worry whether that perception is correct.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><p style="color:blue;font-size:12px;">Footnote 10: BREYER: “it is particularly important to show what we do in overturning a case is grounded in principle and not social pressure, not political pressure.”</p></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Don’t worry whether the public will think precedents will reverse “just because” of turnover on this Court.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(</ins>11<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">) </ins>Worry that the public’s reason for such contentious involvement in judicial appointments has been desperate resolve to remove criminals, and this reason has a basis.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><p style="color:blue;font-size:12px;">Footnote 11: Breyer, quoting Casey: [we don’t want the public to think, when we correct a terrible precedent, that our action is] “but a surrender to political pressures or new members.”  </p></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Don’t worry about your reputation when you should be worrying whether you are an accessory to murder.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Don’t worry about your reputation when you should be worrying whether you are an accessory to murder.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Surely no justice means to have blood on his hands. Even Roe said “we...would not have indulged in statutory interpretation favorable to abortion...if the necessary consequence was the termination of life entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Surely no justice means to have blood on his hands. Even <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''</ins>Roe<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'' </ins>said “we...would not have indulged in statutory interpretation favorable to abortion...if the necessary consequence was the termination of life entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection.”</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But “ignorance of the law is no excuse”. How much infanticide can ignorance of legally recognizable facts excuse?</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>But “ignorance of the law is no excuse”. How much infanticide can ignorance of legally recognizable facts excuse?</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Consciousness<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. </del>Mr. Stewart answered Justice Sotomayor about the basis for his conclusion: “advancement in...knowledge and concern about such things as fetal pain, what we know the child is doing and looks like and is fully human from...very early…an unborn life being poked and then recoiling in the way one of us would recoil.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==</ins>Consciousness<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mr. Stewart answered Justice Sotomayor about the basis for his conclusion: “advancement in...knowledge and concern about such things as fetal pain, what we know the child is doing and looks like and is fully human from...very early…an unborn life being poked and then recoiling in the way one of us would recoil.”</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When Justice Sotomayor said even dead people can recoil at a poke, she added another element that liberals need before they will accept that babies of people are people: proof that “there’s consciousness.”</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When Justice Sotomayor said even dead people can recoil at a poke, she added another element that liberals need before they will accept that babies of people are people: proof that “there’s consciousness.”</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Fully human” certainly implies consciousness. But to whatever extent it doesn’t, consciousness is irrelevant, as an additional element requiring separate proof. Our laws protect unconscious people.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>“Fully human” certainly implies consciousness. But to whatever extent it doesn’t, consciousness is irrelevant, as an additional element requiring separate proof. Our laws protect unconscious people.  </div></td></tr>
</table>DaveLeach