Quick Idea
The ACLU, or some legally connected body, should bring a dummy case to the courts. The case would be people v US Census bureau, and ask that they make everybody’s age increased by 9 months, to reflect the "fact" that life begins at conception. The courts would never accept this, and could set a legal precedent that you're born at birth, and therefore that is when life begins. This would take away the argument of abortion as murder, since it would be legally established that a fetus isn't a person. Not sure if you can wiggle a way out of it, or simply not take up the case, but none the less, it's interesting.
posted by John Nicosia at 1/25/2006 01:30:00 AM
2 Comments:
That is the smartest thing I have ever heard.
Thats an interesting idea. Its just that would you feel comfortable allowing this to happen, making it illegal to have an abortion the day before birth say? The heart starts beating approximately a week into the pregnancy, I mean I am not against abortion at all, but I think you should keep it within the first trimester, because later then that and it just seems to me that you are killing a living thing. I like the idea though and it would work I would think, but it just goes too far the other way I think
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