An article in the Harvard Law Journal concludes unborn babies have a Constitutional right to life.
The Fourteenth Amendment, which was adopted in 1868, declares that no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
A debate that has been raging in courtrooms for years is whether the “life” part includes unborn persons.
Harvard Law school graduate Joshua Craddock did some constitutional soul searching to answer that question in a report for the Harvard Law Journal.
He concludes that unborn babies do fall under the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections.
"One might look to dictionaries of legal and common usage, the context of the English common law tradition, and cases that attempted to construe the meaning of the text in a manner consistent with original meaning. Using this methodology, it is reasonable to construe the Fourteenth Amendment to include prenatal life."
"The structure of the argument is simple: The Fourteenth Amendment’s use of the word “person” guarantees due process and equal protection to all members of the human species. The preborn are members of the human species from the moment of fertilization. Therefore, the Fourteenth Amendment protects the preborn. If one concedes the minor premise (that preborn humans are members of the human species), all that must be demonstrated is that the term “person,” in its original public meaning at the time of the Fourteenth Amendment’s adoption, applied to all members of the human species."
In addition to using language to prove his point, Craddock puts his conclusions in context, noting that at the time the Fourteenth Amendment was written, several states called the unborn person a “child” in their anti-abortion laws. Moreover, The Stream notes, in 1859, the American Medical Association mandated that the government must protect the “independent and actual existence of the child before birth.”
Using this logic, Craddock notes, the Supreme Court justices were flawed in their 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, which granted the right to abortion. When he wrote the majority opinion, Justice Harry Blackmun failed to properly assess the word “person” as it was applied in 1868, Craddock argues.
Matthew Kratter of Bitcoin University gives one of the best talks on Bitcoin:
"If self sovereign adoption took us from zero dollars a coin to sixty nine thousand dollars a coin, all of those flows from BlackRock and the Trumps and Saylor and everything has has only taken us a few ten thousand dollars higher than at this moment."
"Instead of looking to the government or Saylor or BlackRock or someone else as our saviors, if you want the price of Bitcoin to go up, you just need to use it as money yourself. You need to because if Bitcoiners aren't going to use Bitcoin as money, I'm not sure who is."
"Ask to pay in Bitcoin, ask to be paid to be paid in Bitcoin, because this is how real Bitcoin adoption works. You should be HODLing your sats, trying to get rid of US dollars, whatever your fiat currency is, because this is the money of pedophile rings and forever wars. Don't hold US dollars. And that's the that's the fastest way we get to higher Bitcoin prices is we need to destroy US dollar network effects. And we need to increase Bitcoin network effects. And the way you do that is every Bitcoiner runs a node, gets paid in Bitcoin and tries to buy as much as possible using using Bitcoin."
Outside Sidra Medical Centre in Qatar, 14 bronze sculptures from artist Damien Hirst chronicle the gestation of a fetus inside a uterus, from conception to birth.
This is the kind of public art we need.
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🚨 JUST IN: The full Florida legislature is about to vote on PASSING Gov. Ron DeSantis' abolishment of property taxes for most primary homeowners
The homestead exemption is SWIFTLY raised to $250,000 and scheduled for full termination 🔥
DeSantis says Florida has so many funds they can create a STATE TRUST FUND for police, fire, etc. at the local level
Other states are also looking at property tax relief
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The bodycam footage of Henry Nowak has just been released.
An 18-year-old who was stabbed FIVE TIMES called the police for help.
His attacker told officers Henry was a racist.
So they handcuffed the victim.
Henry told them over and over:
"I've been stabbed."
"I can't breathe."
"Please brother, I can't breathe."
An officer responded: "You've been stabbed, mate? I don't think you have."
Henry died in handcuffs.
The mainstream media has said NOTHING.
Where is the same outrage from when George Floyd died?
Watch this footage. Share it everywhere.
Pray for Henry’s family.
I have a favor to ask.
@MWBTCSummit went out of their way to keep their conference bitcoin-only. They have a strict no-altcoin policy.
This means turning down sponsorships.
If you are already planning on taking a Bitcoin trip this year, please consider buying a ticket. 🙏
In Tennessee, we recognize June as Nuclear Family Month.
God was clear about His design for humanity, and I’m grateful to live in a state that celebrates and supports that foundation.