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Entry: No, McCain Won't End Abortion Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/mccain_wont_end_abortion#22065 Post contents: The real question is whether the principled pro-life movement will follow the logical consequences of their moral reasoning. If the fetus from conception is a human person, then it deserves Constitutional protection under the Equal Protection Clause, period. Overturning Roe simply says abortion is no longer a federally-protected PRIVATE choice and transforms it into a STATES' choice, which turns the status of the unborn into a police matter subject to democratic preferences of the individual states. So anti-Roe pro-lifers are really advocating for a variation on the pro-choice theme, which totally renders their moral logic incoherent. You can't be exclusively anti-Roe and affirm the ontological status of the unborn at the same time. How is the anti-Roe argument any different from Douglas' debating points against Lincoln? I know I'm talking to a lot of anti-Lincolns here, but it's never been clear to me whether paleocons truly despise the 14th Amdt. My Catholic pro-life reasoning leads me to believe that it's either a Constitutional Amendment, a 14th Amendment for the unborn, or we just give up the political chase. Sent at: 2008 07 04