I see that everyone who has commented in support of the "Personhood" Amendment that I discussed the other day either failed critical thinking in school or simply got distracted by the abortion issue embedded within it.

I'm going to make some people very unhappy here.  We'll see how many will actually go back to the evidence (the "pledge" itself) and debate the point on the table instead of trying to deflect what must, if they call themselves Christian, lead them to renounce not only this pledge but the signatories -- all of them.

Let us begin with the 4th Amendment:

4th Amendment wrote..

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Now how do you stop someone from providing -- or having -- an abortion without violating the 4th Amendment?  To be able to meet the 4th Amendment requirements you must find a predicate cause for that intrusion.  The USSC in "Roe" found a potential for it beyond the first trimester, and a presumption in favor of it in the third.

That you, personally, believe abortion is wrong in some -- or even all -- instances, does not necessarily give you the right to set that standard for everyone else and turn it into a matter of federal criminal statute.  There is a tremendous difference between how one chooses to live their life and the right to shove a gun up someone else's nose and demand they live that way too.

The problem with attempting to move the "bright line" test that the Founders devised is that doing so has major and unacceptable consequences.  These are not unintended consequences either -- in fact they're very intentional and the people who drafted this piece of filth knew exactly what they were doing.

When people argue for the "Personhood Amendment" what they are actually saying is that the State has the right to effectively take custody of every fertilized egg from that point forward until natural death.

This means The State has the right to prohibit by criminal law, including the criminal punishment matrix, any act that could or does cause that death through other than the entirely-natural process at any point in time. It also means The State has the right to monitor compliance so it can prosecute any violations.

That in turn means the 4th Amendment will have been entirely removed from The Constitution. 

Under this premise and black letter of this Amendment your person, your property and your surroundings can be subjected to mandatory government inspection at any time for any condition, substance or act you might have taken or intend to take that has, or could, result in your demise prior to natural death.

If you're not frightened of this and prepared to do whatever is necessary to prevent it's enactment and enforcement you damn well should be.  Such an Amendment would be the literal overthrow of the United States Government as the prime founding principle of the nation would be gone.

This proposal does NOT stop at abortion and in fact abortion is but a TINY piece of what this Amendment proposes to render into our Constitution.  Should such an amendment be passed you would instantly lose the right to:

• Become fat (this is likely to cause your unnaturally-early death)
  
  
• Smoke (ditto)
  
  
• Fail to exercise on a government-approved plan (ditto)
  
  
• Have gay male sex even if both individuals are adults and consent to the risk (ditto)
  
  
• Cave-dive for recreational purposes (ditto)
  
  
• Climb mountains for recreational purposes (ditto)
  
  
• Jump out of perfectly-good airplanes, or do anything else that has a reasonable probability of increasing your risk of dying before "natural death" would otherwise take place.
  
  
• Commit any act that might -- or will -- do the same for a fertilized egg.  I already listed those in the previous Ticker -- this Amendment instantly makes unlawful any IVF fertility treatment along with banning birth control pills and IUDs.

The list is in fact endless. 

This is not hyperbole.  It is in fact exactly what the Amendment says.

Read it again:

I stand with President Ronald Reagan in supporting “the unalienable personhood of every American, from the moment of conception until natural death," and with the Republican Party platform in affirming that I “support a human life amendment to the Constitution, and endorse legislation to make clear that the 14th Amendment protections apply to unborn children.”

This is not, in the main, about abortion.  It is about your right to self-determination as opposed to being owned by the Government -- by Congress and The President personally as literal slaves.

I argue as a matter of first principle and the Founders agreed that you own your person.  You may delegate that ownership to God if you wish, but that is a personal choice covered by your freedom of religion.  Some religious paths will ask (and some will demand) that you do so, but Establishment prevents the Government from mandating this and no religion I am aware of calls for you to cede this authority to The State. 

The 4th Amendment is a recognition of the fundamental "first principle" fact that you have a right to be secure in your person, as you own yourself.

The proposal of a "Personhood Amendment" is Satanic as it assigns the power of life from creation to death not to God or to each individual person with full vesting of authority once sentience has been reached but rather to Government.

Lucifer himself wrote that text and if you fail to see this you need to read it again until you do.  There is nothing Christian in the premise and words of that proposal.  It is spawn from the forked tongue of Satan himself.

The signatories to that document are in fact sworn, by their own hand and act, minions of the Devil.

I will not vote for or support Lucifer's servants.