Can the Fourteenth Amendment Be Used to Protect Human

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Can the Fourteenth Amendment Be Used to Protect Human

28 Dec 2022

Both sides agreed that the case required the Court not simply to apply Roe and Casey, but to “either reaffirm or overrule” those precedents.26 The Court chose the latter, overrul- ing Roe and Casey in their entirety and holding that neither the Due Process Clause27 nor the Equal Protection Clause28 of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a right to abortion. [...] The court held that “[o]nce human life has commenced, the constitutional protections found in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments impose upon the state the duty of safe- guarding it.”77 Paulsen concludes: The “constitutional meaning of the word person in early judicial interpretation,”78 as well as “functional interpretations” by state legislatures79 and non-judicial “instrumen- talities of the na. [...] Before the oral argument, Chief Justice Morrison Waite stated: “The [C]ourt does not wish to hear argument on the question whether the provision in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, applies to these corporations. [...] They are considered “valid law published in the Statutes at Large, which contain the law as passed by Congress and signed by the president.”114At the same time, “it is common practice for a bill to be stripped of its findings and purposes before the rest of the statute is placed in the main text of the US Code.”115 Sanctity of Life Act. [...] Professor Steven Calabresi argues that “Congress has the power to interpret Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment when it is legislating to enforce it under Section 5… before the Supreme Court has identified [Section 1 rights], so long as at the end of the day, the Court agrees that the rights in question are encompassed in the meaning of Section 1.”159 The Court in Boerne also acknowledged that C.
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