The Human Life Bill--S. 158: Report, Together with Additional and Minority Views to the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate |
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... attempt upon the life of the mother " but rather the destruction of her child . The committee therefore called upon the Association to recommend to governors and legislators of the states that they protect human life , by law , from the ...
... attempt upon the life of the mother " but rather the destruction of her child . The committee therefore called upon the Association to recommend to governors and legislators of the states that they protect human life , by law , from the ...
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... attempt to define what qualities must be present in a human being before its life is to be valued . Although the scientific witnesses who adopted the quality - of - life ethic did not state explicitly the theoretical basis for this ...
... attempt to define what qualities must be present in a human being before its life is to be valued . Although the scientific witnesses who adopted the quality - of - life ethic did not state explicitly the theoretical basis for this ...
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... Attempts to redefine " human being " in such cases merely obscure the ethical and moral issues that underlie any public abortion policy . Our constitutional history leaves no doubt which ethic is written into our fundamental law . The ...
... Attempts to redefine " human being " in such cases merely obscure the ethical and moral issues that underlie any public abortion policy . Our constitutional history leaves no doubt which ethic is written into our fundamental law . The ...
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... attempt to influence the Supreme Court to change a constitutional decision , S. 158 calls to mind Abraham Lincoln's approach to the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision of 1857. Presi- dent Lincoln observed in his first inaugural address ...
... attempt to influence the Supreme Court to change a constitutional decision , S. 158 calls to mind Abraham Lincoln's approach to the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision of 1857. Presi- dent Lincoln observed in his first inaugural address ...
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... attempt with S. 158 at influencing the Su- preme Court to reexamine Roe v . Wade in light of congressional findings is the most responsible means to address an erroneous Supreme Court decision , a means President Lincoln clearly recog ...
... attempt with S. 158 at influencing the Su- preme Court to reexamine Roe v . Wade in light of congressional findings is the most responsible means to address an erroneous Supreme Court decision , a means President Lincoln clearly recog ...
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14th Amendment abortion decision abortion issue abortion on demand ABRAHAM LINCOLN accord intrinsic worth affirm authority basic begins at conception bill biological fact Bork cell Charles Alan Wright children are human clause Cong Congress congressional findings consensus constitutionality determination Dred Scott due process enforce the fourteenth equal value federal court jurisdiction fourteenth amendment framers fund abortions GALEBACH gamete gress hearings human being begins human life begins human lives human species individual interpretation judicial judiciary Katzenbach Lactantius legislative facts living human lower federal courts MAX BAUCUS ment morning-after pills ovum personhood principle prohibit proponents protect unborn children provision quality-of-life ethic recognize Robert Bork role sanctity of human sanctity-of-life ethic scientific question Senator BAUCUS Separation of Powers Soranus spermatozoon statute Supreme Court Supreme Court decision teenth Amendment tion transcript unborn child unborn human United States Solicitor value question Wade worth and equal zygote
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Page 15 - I should like to know if taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle and making exceptions to it, where will it stop. If one man says it does not mean a negro, why may not another say it does not mean some other man? If that declaration is not the truth, let us get the Statute book, in which we find it and tear it out!
Page 4 - We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and 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 the answer.
Page 23 - If I were in Congress, and a vote should come up on a question whether slavery should be prohibited in a new territory, in spite of the Dred Scott decision, I would vote that it should.
Page 2 - Act is declared unconstitutional or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 51 - The Congress finds that present day scientific evidence indicates a significant likelihood that actual human life exists from conception.
Page 24 - In considering this question, then, we must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding.
Page 29 - Establishment' Clause does not ban federal or state regulation of conduct whose reason or effect merely happens to coincide or harmonize with the tenets of some or all religions.
Page 24 - A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind. It would probably never be understood by the public. Its nature, therefore, requires, that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects designated, and the minor ingredients which compose those objects be deduced...
Page 20 - Private conduct abridging individual rights does no violence to the Equal Protection Clause unless to some significant extent the state in any of its manifestations has been found to have become involved in it.
Page 22 - I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government...