From Karl Denninger (one of the founders of the Tea Party Movement):
On “Personhood” (Continued)
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=200426
“…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….”
