Have they really thought this through?
If Mike Huckabee and a 20-year-old Colorado woman get their way, a Colorado constitutional amendment would guarantee that every fertilized egg is a person.
There's all manner of astonishing possibilities here. For one thing, a fetus could have a Social Security number. A fetus could buy, sell, invest and go broke -- all from the womb. Heck, we could have identity theft victims who aren't even born yet.
For another, this amendment has to be retroactive -- how could you discriminate against the post-born by denying them the same rights as the pre-born, whose lives would by law also have begun at conception?
We'd all celebrate the Year of Two Birthdays. Our birthdates would change; we'd have to check different horoscopes. Twenty-year-olds could drink legally nine months sooner than they can now. Baby boomers could start retiring nine months sooner.
And women could test this amendment through the IRS and the federal 1040 form.
You could say you've missed a menstrual cycle -- gosh, you must be pregnant! You get to claim a fetal child dependent -- and the tax credit -- on your taxes. And then, within a matter of days, there might be a spontaneous miscarriage; that happens in about half of all early pregnancies, according to the NIH and U.S. National Library of Medicine. By the Colorado Human Life Amendment, that was still a full person, and you, the parent, would be entitled to a full tax deduction.
What are the feds going to do, go through your trash to look for the EPT test to see whether you're lying?
Don't kid yourself -- any government that could pass this amendment could go through your trash, and a whole lot worse, to enforce it.
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But Huckabee would possibly bring some economic success, if it's still possible, to the nation. As he did to Arkansas as governor, where he built roads, built up bad schools, balanced the budget, got re-elected twice in a Democrat state, and so forth. He has some good economic ideas which I consider hopeful, ideas the other three front runners do not seem to have. He has the best education of all of them, in spite of the fact that it was not a Harvard, the best rational thought, in spite of being quirky on the reproductive issues.
So the question is, do we save the Titanic or do we continue to think about fertilized eggs? Not that fertilized eggs are not the very basis of life. But right now the ship is going down while the others throw spitballs at each other.
I think it is hysterically ironic that we think about eggs while the basket is on fire.
And we bulldoze the only egg-maker in the line-up, Hillary.
It's good for an evening's laugh while we contemplate our ruin.
That Cunningham fellow gave us some laughs too as he introduced McCain. This is the most hysterical (as in wombical) election ever. No sense of proportion.
It isn't madness, it's just the typically poor education of the evangelical mind.
He must hate women, remember he's the one who went out of his way to get that rapist paroled,who then went on to murder another women?
I think though regular Americans are becoming more aware of what politions are up to now and will reject this nut.
I am the eggman,
they are the eggmen,
I am the walrus,
goo goo g'joob
Huckabee represents the millions of imbeciles trying to control our bodies.
If you don't like abortion - don't have one.
Every egg is great,
If an egg is wasted,
God gets quite irate ..."
-with apologies to Monty Python