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OK, here it is as promised.

This seems to me relevant to our discussion about the Constitution,
State's Rights, etc.

PLEASE this is not a MORALITY DISCUSSION, but a legal one.

Question: 

Who was the Bill of Rights written for? Does the US Constitution guarantee
rights of non-US citizens?

Who qualifies for US Citizenship?

Answers: ???

It seems to me that to be a US Citizen, you have to be naturalized,
or be born of US Citizen parents. Having a birth certificate from
a US territory helps.

EXACTLY.

You see? BORN of US parents, BIRTH certificate. Does this mean
a fetus is not legally a US Citizen until birth?

Then the US Constitution does not guarantee the Life, Liberty, and
Pursuit of Happiness to a fetus, legally speaking?

Can a state do that? Consider a fetus a citizen of the state, if not
of the United States? Can the state consider any other person a citizen
who's rights must be protected, if not a US Citizen?

Will there be such things as Certificates of Conception?

	Any answers out there?


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