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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I came across this CNN discussion on one of Obama's
statements ... I don't quite understand the last section, but here it
is:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Video: <A
href="http://www.xanga.com/Catholic_Mommas/670198532/appalling.html">http://www.xanga.com/Catholic_Mommas/670198532/appalling.html</A>;
alternative - <A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPZCXcTwZPY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPZCXcTwZPY</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PDF containing the transcripts: <A
href="http://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans92/ST033001.pdf">http://www.ilga.gov/senate/transcripts/strans92/ST033001.pdf</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Quote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"<FONT color=#008000>Number one, whenever we define
a previable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal protection clause
or the other elements in the Constitution, what we're really saying is, in fact,
that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would
be provided to a -- a child, a nine-month-old -- child that was delivered to
term. That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would
forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it -- it would essentially bar
abortions, because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a
child, and <U>if this is a child, then this would be an antiabortion
statute</U>.</FONT>"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't understand what he means with the part
underlined in green - "<EM>if this is a child, then this would be an
antiabortion statute.</EM>" If such a foetus is a child, it may or may not
be an antiabortion statute; and I don't see how such a foetus NOT being a child
would change that. And with whatever sort of clause he wanted and got and
ignored that would prevent the law from barring abortions, I am not sure that it
would bar abortions as he seems to think.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My initial reading was that he was referring to two
types of children - one that was nine months after birth, and another one that
was born at term. But after reading other people's interpretations, it
does make more sense to me that he's referring to one type of child - a
nine-month-old child that has just been born.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Interesting that he refers to a "child, a
nine-month-old" in the same sentence as "delivered to term" - is he
acknowledging that a child born at term is a nine-month-old
child???</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He doesn't seem to want them to be called children
because then we can't kill them; so he seems to acknowledge that killing is
involved. And calling a child delivered to term "a nine-month-old" - if
that is what he did - is quite contradictory, because it implies that 6 months
prior to birth it was a three-month-old child.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>God bless,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
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