Unborn Children Are Persons, Please Treat Them That Way

Here is a sad story of a Greyhound bus that drifted of the road turned on its side and smashed into a tree. What makes it sadder is that despite the fact that three people were killed in the accident only two are claimed. One a child of 7 month gestational age died within his/her mother’s womb and so was not counted as being alive. If an c-section had been attempted there is a good chance the neglected child would have survived and been counted as a person. Instead the attitudes of our society deprived him/her of her/his right to life. Martha Contreras and her child are both mourned by me if not by anyone else. Faro Jahani the third victim is also mourned.

Then there is the Phoenix, AZ case of Candace Dickinson and her son. Dickinson’s son is at nine months gestational age and yet in his mother stomach and so according to Pheonix police does not count as a person despite the fact he is well past the point of both viability and quickening. If a competent lawyer took her case then he could use Williams Blackstone’s definition of a person which is any child after the point of quickening. Quickening was the hypothetic point at which our founders believed human life began, as motion signified life. The Commentaries On The Laws Of England in which Blackstone explained the law were often mentioned when the Constitution was being designed and used in at least one case by those whom passed it into law to decide a debate. Thus by the Ninth Amendment, Dickinson’s son is a person under the Constitution. How much you want to make a bet that, that decision would cause certain groups to go ballistic. Fox and Friends thought she was making an absurd claim which shows how effective the pro choice propaganda machine is.

Texas the supposedly pro life state is the next area that is oppressive to both children and their mothers. The Supreme Court there has repeatedly decided that children within there mother are not alive. The Texas legislator righted this wrong by passing legislature to recognize these children as alive but allowed a loophole for medical malpractice. This law was only passed in 2003 and gives you a possibility why Texas was selected as the state to challenge the illegalization of abortion in. Hopefully Texas feels more compassion for the right to life of children vs. the medical establishment and acts to redress the wrong done to them. They can do this by granting their mothers the inheritance of the child's restitution for their wrongful death.