Dear Personhood:
God bless you all for your excellent fight that must be won.
It is unfortunate that this whole argument is backwards. The abortion proponents should be required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that fetuses have NO human rights under the law. There is one point that both sides should be able to agree upon. It is that there is uncertainty as to the personhood of a fetus. No one has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that fetuses lack human rights, nor indeed that they have them. It is fundamental to our legal system that the state NEVER permits the removal of property, liberty, or life without absolute certainty of the evidence. The presumption of innocence is paramount in our legal proceedings. The burden of proof is on the accuser and we do not deny rights or liberty without absolute certainty under the law. The law must ASSUME fetuses are innocent, and therefore deserving of protection, until proven GUILTY of a crime! This is a simple human right afforded to every PERSON!
Because of the uncertainty in this issue, we must demand that the innocent be protected. We must demand that the law stop sanctioning abortion until the day comes in the future when someone can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that fetuses have NO human rights. The burden of proof should NOT be on Personhood or other abortion opponents. We are on the right side morally and legally, if we could just get the law to see the obvious.
Hooray for Personhood. When we bring home these simple points about fetuses to the American legal system, that fetuses are individual people, not test tube experiments, animals, or discardable organs like appendixes, then we will see the slaughter of the innocent stop.
Dear Personhood, I recently read the book “Compelling Interests” by Jessica Shaver and it is very educational. Within it I discovered something that has proven to be very interesting. On page 156 of the book, the author describes the abortionists responsibility to fill out a death certificate if the aborted fetus weighs at least 400 grams or is 5 month gestational age. What?! I didn’t know that so I did some research and just read Ohio’s death certificate criteria – it is so contradictory as they state that a fetus UNDER 20 weeks can have a death certificate issued if the “product of conception” died due to miscarriage but CANNOT if they died due to abortion. That is insane and I believe that we need to follow up on this death certificate issue since only human beings are given such certificates – that is we do not issue them for an extracted tooth or tumor removal – so just wanted to ask you if this line of thinking was being addressed. I believe it’s very important and could prove to be extremely powerful in giving the unborn personhood. Thank you, Nalani
Dear NaLani,
I agree with you…the death certificate issue is completely insane. Don’t know when I have heard a more vivid contradiction. This needs to be addressed for sure.
Sincerely,
Jim Krubeck
Dear Personhood:
God bless you all for your excellent fight that must be won.
It is unfortunate that this whole argument is backwards. The abortion proponents should be required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that fetuses have NO human rights under the law. There is one point that both sides should be able to agree upon. It is that there is uncertainty as to the personhood of a fetus. No one has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that fetuses lack human rights, nor indeed that they have them. It is fundamental to our legal system that the state NEVER permits the removal of property, liberty, or life without absolute certainty of the evidence. The presumption of innocence is paramount in our legal proceedings. The burden of proof is on the accuser and we do not deny rights or liberty without absolute certainty under the law. The law must ASSUME fetuses are innocent, and therefore deserving of protection, until proven GUILTY of a crime! This is a simple human right afforded to every PERSON!
Because of the uncertainty in this issue, we must demand that the innocent be protected. We must demand that the law stop sanctioning abortion until the day comes in the future when someone can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that fetuses have NO human rights. The burden of proof should NOT be on Personhood or other abortion opponents. We are on the right side morally and legally, if we could just get the law to see the obvious.
Hooray for Personhood. When we bring home these simple points about fetuses to the American legal system, that fetuses are individual people, not test tube experiments, animals, or discardable organs like appendixes, then we will see the slaughter of the innocent stop.
Dear Personhood, I recently read the book “Compelling Interests” by Jessica Shaver and it is very educational. Within it I discovered something that has proven to be very interesting. On page 156 of the book, the author describes the abortionists responsibility to fill out a death certificate if the aborted fetus weighs at least 400 grams or is 5 month gestational age. What?! I didn’t know that so I did some research and just read Ohio’s death certificate criteria – it is so contradictory as they state that a fetus UNDER 20 weeks can have a death certificate issued if the “product of conception” died due to miscarriage but CANNOT if they died due to abortion. That is insane and I believe that we need to follow up on this death certificate issue since only human beings are given such certificates – that is we do not issue them for an extracted tooth or tumor removal – so just wanted to ask you if this line of thinking was being addressed. I believe it’s very important and could prove to be extremely powerful in giving the unborn personhood. Thank you, Nalani
Dear NaLani,
I agree with you…the death certificate issue is completely insane. Don’t know when I have heard a more vivid contradiction. This needs to be addressed for sure.
Sincerely,
Jim Krubeck