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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Personhood amendment unconstitutional

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has unanimously held that a proposed "personhood amendment," defining a person as "any human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being to natural death," is "clearly unconstitutional pursuant to Planned Parenthood v. Casey." 

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Planned Parenthood and Casey is clearly unconstitutional since our Founding Fathers stated unanimously and in one continuous sentence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.- That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men...

Clearly our Founding Fathers believed we became persons at the moment of our creation, for they did not state, unanimously, all men are born equally, but rather, all men are created equal.