Ben Thompson
Founding documents Pro-Life
By Ben Thompson
The Declaration of Independence states: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Our Founders placed our right to life as our first right and wanted all to clearly understand that none of our God-given (natural) rights can be taken away unless we commit a crime to cause that loss and that such loss of rights can be taken only by due process of law and be proven before a jury of our peers.
The Fifth Amendment makes it clear that even if we are accused of a crime we do not lose our basic rights, including, first of all, our right to life. The Fifth Amendment uses the exact language which Jefferson originally used in the Declaration: "no person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law."
The Fourteenth Amendment reiterates this basic principle: "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
Exactly what crimes have over 40 million innocent unborn human beings committed to justify a death sentence by abortion? What court need unborn infants appeal to in order to prove their innocence?
Is an unborn baby a person? The answer is self-evident, just as self-evident as an unborn person's right to life. There is no meaningful, logical argument that can justify taking the life of a totally defenseless, sentient unborn infants.
The contention that an unborn human being is not a person is based in pure, undeniable selfishness. Over 98 percent of all abortions are performed merely for the convenience of a self-absorbed, uncaring adults, with no thought for the pain and anguish that is suffered by the unborn human being.
Traditionally, our society was built on the principle of protecting the most innocent among us and being willing to give our very lives, if necessary to protect them.
The Declaration of Independence was written to state our God-given, unalienable rights and the Constitution to establish to type of government necessary to guarantee those rights.
Modern pseudo-intellectuals, who pretend to know more than our Founders, try to stand these basic principles of freedom on theirs heads and often claim that they mean exactly the opposite of what was originally intended.
Thomas Jefferson said, "The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered ... according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption.
"On every question of Construction (of the Constitution) lets us carry our-selves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
Elitist liberals want so badly to force abortion upon us that they don't care about what is right or wrong much less what is or isn't constitutional.
Abortion is clearly against the spirit and letter of the Declaration and Constitution and, therefore, is itself unconstitutional.
The U. S. Supreme Court in Marbury vs. Madison (1803) stated, "All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void."
In his dissenting opinion regarding Roe vs. Wade U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White said, "At the heart of the controversy in these cases (abortions) are those recurring pregnancies that pose no danger whatsoever to the life or health of the mother but are, nevertheless, unwanted for any one or more of a variety of reasons — convenience, family planning, economics, dislike of children, the embarrassment of illegitimacy, etc. ... I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court's judgment. ... As an exercise of raw judicial power,... in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power."
In Roe vs. Wade the majority of the court justices pulled out of thin air a right that simply does not exist in the Constitution and , in fact, is contrary to the life protecting principles clearly set forth in our founding documents.
U.S. Senator Sam Brownback, Kansas, recently said, "Our Supreme Court's decision in Roe is certainly not the final word on the issue of abortion, just as the Court was not the final word on slavery in Dred Scott. Our system gives us the opportunity to rectify past wrongs. It is my fervent hope and prayer for America that we base our laws on what science tells us: namely, that the young human embryo is a human life. I believe that I will live to see the end of the abortion industry, and the sanctity and dignity of every human life affirmed. Until then, abortion will continue to prod the conscience of our nation. Great labors remain before us, but the rights and lives of unborn children are absolutely worth our efforts. Reagan was our first great pro-life president, and surely others will follow in his footsteps. His legacy endures and the pro-life movement continues to make steady progress. On behalf of the unborn, let us pray and persevere."
Americans have absolutely no moral or constitutional obligation to support Roe vs. Wade. Indeed, we have the profound responsibility and duty to eliminate it from American society and as the Light Upon the Hill to the rest of the world encourage them to do the same.
© Ben Thompson
The Declaration of Independence states: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Our Founders placed our right to life as our first right and wanted all to clearly understand that none of our God-given (natural) rights can be taken away unless we commit a crime to cause that loss and that such loss of rights can be taken only by due process of law and be proven before a jury of our peers.
The Fifth Amendment makes it clear that even if we are accused of a crime we do not lose our basic rights, including, first of all, our right to life. The Fifth Amendment uses the exact language which Jefferson originally used in the Declaration: "no person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law."
The Fourteenth Amendment reiterates this basic principle: "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."
Exactly what crimes have over 40 million innocent unborn human beings committed to justify a death sentence by abortion? What court need unborn infants appeal to in order to prove their innocence?
Is an unborn baby a person? The answer is self-evident, just as self-evident as an unborn person's right to life. There is no meaningful, logical argument that can justify taking the life of a totally defenseless, sentient unborn infants.
The contention that an unborn human being is not a person is based in pure, undeniable selfishness. Over 98 percent of all abortions are performed merely for the convenience of a self-absorbed, uncaring adults, with no thought for the pain and anguish that is suffered by the unborn human being.
Traditionally, our society was built on the principle of protecting the most innocent among us and being willing to give our very lives, if necessary to protect them.
The Declaration of Independence was written to state our God-given, unalienable rights and the Constitution to establish to type of government necessary to guarantee those rights.
Modern pseudo-intellectuals, who pretend to know more than our Founders, try to stand these basic principles of freedom on theirs heads and often claim that they mean exactly the opposite of what was originally intended.
Thomas Jefferson said, "The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered ... according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption.
"On every question of Construction (of the Constitution) lets us carry our-selves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
Elitist liberals want so badly to force abortion upon us that they don't care about what is right or wrong much less what is or isn't constitutional.
Abortion is clearly against the spirit and letter of the Declaration and Constitution and, therefore, is itself unconstitutional.
The U. S. Supreme Court in Marbury vs. Madison (1803) stated, "All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void."
In his dissenting opinion regarding Roe vs. Wade U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White said, "At the heart of the controversy in these cases (abortions) are those recurring pregnancies that pose no danger whatsoever to the life or health of the mother but are, nevertheless, unwanted for any one or more of a variety of reasons — convenience, family planning, economics, dislike of children, the embarrassment of illegitimacy, etc. ... I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court's judgment. ... As an exercise of raw judicial power,... in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power."
In Roe vs. Wade the majority of the court justices pulled out of thin air a right that simply does not exist in the Constitution and , in fact, is contrary to the life protecting principles clearly set forth in our founding documents.
U.S. Senator Sam Brownback, Kansas, recently said, "Our Supreme Court's decision in Roe is certainly not the final word on the issue of abortion, just as the Court was not the final word on slavery in Dred Scott. Our system gives us the opportunity to rectify past wrongs. It is my fervent hope and prayer for America that we base our laws on what science tells us: namely, that the young human embryo is a human life. I believe that I will live to see the end of the abortion industry, and the sanctity and dignity of every human life affirmed. Until then, abortion will continue to prod the conscience of our nation. Great labors remain before us, but the rights and lives of unborn children are absolutely worth our efforts. Reagan was our first great pro-life president, and surely others will follow in his footsteps. His legacy endures and the pro-life movement continues to make steady progress. On behalf of the unborn, let us pray and persevere."
Americans have absolutely no moral or constitutional obligation to support Roe vs. Wade. Indeed, we have the profound responsibility and duty to eliminate it from American society and as the Light Upon the Hill to the rest of the world encourage them to do the same.
© Ben Thompson
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