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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... deny that science has any relevance to the abortion issue generally focus only on the second question and refuse to acknowledge the possibility of an- swering the first . They ignore the role science plays in informing us that a ...
... deny that science has any relevance to the abortion issue generally focus only on the second question and refuse to acknowledge the possibility of an- swering the first . They ignore the role science plays in informing us that a ...
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... deny or obscure this basic fact . The following are only a limited sample from the scientific literature : Zygote . This cell results from fertilization of an oocyte by a sperm and is the beginning of a human being . * Development ...
... deny or obscure this basic fact . The following are only a limited sample from the scientific literature : Zygote . This cell results from fertilization of an oocyte by a sperm and is the beginning of a human being . * Development ...
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... with the testimony of some witnesses opposing S. 158 before this subcommittee who emphatically denied that it is possible to determine when a human life begins . If the facts are so clear , it is crucial to understand how , for 10.
... with the testimony of some witnesses opposing S. 158 before this subcommittee who emphatically denied that it is possible to determine when a human life begins . If the facts are so clear , it is crucial to understand how , for 10.
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... deny in selected contexts that unborn children are human beings , their statements should be recognized as evasions of facts by those for whom the facts are inconvenient . 87-467 0 - 81 3 158 ( May 20 transcript at 24 ) ( testimony 13 ...
... deny in selected contexts that unborn children are human beings , their statements should be recognized as evasions of facts by those for whom the facts are inconvenient . 87-467 0 - 81 3 158 ( May 20 transcript at 24 ) ( testimony 13 ...
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... deny the biological facts of human life ; he denies that all human lives have intrinsic worth and equal value . In another instructive example , Professors Raymond S. Duff and A. G. M. Campbell of the Yale Medical School make clear the ...
... deny the biological facts of human life ; he denies that all human lives have intrinsic worth and equal value . In another instructive example , Professors Raymond S. Duff and A. G. M. Campbell of the Yale Medical School make clear the ...
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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...