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Michigan Citizens for Life
2006 Michigan Ballot Initiative Brief
- 1. "Thou shalt not kill" - God,
Ten Commandments
- 2. "We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men ... are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life ... " - United
States Declaration of Independence
- 3. "No person shall ... be deprived of
life ... without due process of law" - United States
Constitution, Amendment V; Bill of Rights, Article the Seventh
- 4. "The appellee and certain amici
argue that the fetus is a 'person' ... . If this suggestion of
personhood is established, the appellant's (Roe) case, of course
collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then specifically be
guaranteed ... . The Constitution does not define 'person' ...
." - Justice Harry A Blackmun, Section IX-A, "Opinion
of the Court", Roe v. Wade, United States Supreme Court (Full
text reported at: http://www.tourolaw.edu/patch/Roe/)
- 5. "The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
States, are reserved to the States, or to the people" - United
States Constitution, Amendment X; Bill of Rights, Article the Twelth
- 6. The Constitution of the United States
does not delegate to the United States nor prohibit to the States
the right to define "person".
- 7. If a State and the people of a State
define "person" as "existing from the moment of
conception", then according to Amendment V of the United States
Constitution in the words of the US Supreme Court's "Opinion of
the Court" in Roe v. Wade, that "person's"
"right to life would then specifically be guaranteed"
- 8. If approved by voters, Michigan Citizens
for Life's initiative petition would amend the State Constitution to
add the following language: "The right to due process,
whereby no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law, guaranteed in Article 1 Section 17, and
the right to equal protection of the law, guaranteed in Article 1,
Section 2, vest at conception. A 'person' for the purposes of the
Constitution and laws of the State of Michigan, exists from the
moment of conception."
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