In any event, shame on N.D.

But they don't care.

is to keep assing them and appealing them until they get one to the Scalia Five that can overturn Roe v. Wade.

So if the average person hears Personhood, "abortion" comes immediately to mind, instead of corporatism.

that I understand even a lot of Republicans are protesting it.

the Citizen United ruling!

"The inalienable right to life at every human being at any stage of development must be recognized and protected.”

Therefore Corporations can NEVER be people!

Obviously. This (and any bill like it) is a bill mandating compulsory pregnancy for women ie: reproductive slavery. Women are considered breeding cattle, not humans. Sad. Sad. Sad how easily women are stripped of their human rights in America in 2013.

"The inalienable right to life at every human being at any stage of development must be recognized and protected.”

Sounds like even if a criminal violated someone's right to life that this law would prohibit the state from depriving someone of their life.

...but North Dakota (as a state) hasn't had the DP since 1973 and hasn't actually executed anyone since 1905. Rapist Alfonso Rodriguez is the only person on death row for a crime committed in North Dakota and he was tried in a federal court.

as a ND attorney (and not a proud one at the moment, attorney or resident), I believe that a strong case could be made that ND police officers could not use deadly force against an armed suspect, even to protect their own lives. Constitutions deal with state or federal actions - if the right to life is enshrined in the ND Constitution as 'inalienable' and to be 'protected' in such strict terms, police officers (employees of the state) would be obliged to refrain from any actions that might jeopardize another life, even if acting in self defense.

Presumably, the state would also be obliged to pay for any and all life-saving medical procedures for any and all patients at any age.

Hm... driving have to be prohibited also, being a very clear contributor to many deaths. Of course, guns in the home would have to be banned - how else could we protect the inalienable right to life, especially for minors, when in-home gun deaths are such an obvious problem?

In fact - I think dying would have to be prohibited entirely. A truly 'inalienable' right to life, that must be protected by Constitutional mandate, would necessitate it. Conventional theory generally supposes that the right to life ends at the point of death, and is therefore not truly 'inalienable'. Probably all wills would have to be ruled unenforceable - how could ND courts enforce such monstrous death-envisioning instruments? Funerals? - yikes! Such hideous formal recognitions of unconstitutional activities could not be tolerated.

Could be interesting....

protect those preborn babies, right? Good grief.

And every sperm, sacred.

A womans entire "egg inventory" would be catalogued and closely monitored by the State.

No sex outside marriage; no sex outside procreation.

No contraception.

Women stripped of their right to vote on womens issues.

Miscarriages and still births, etc., now felonies.

Etc.

Police State.

Republican Nirvana.

Sick Republican f/ckers.

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Save North Dakota's population!! This is going to be a field day for lawyers.

If lawmakers are seriously serious, they must demand that the state's seven-plus private fertility clinics should be shut down by the attorney general and law enforcement or other state agents, pending the 'head count' of embryos presently held captive within those clinics, and until the 'just cause' of the charge of kidnapping and child abuse has been investigated and properly adjudicated.

All presidents, governing boards and employee accessories-after-the-fact of said embryo/fertility clinics must be certified in child care and subject to mandatory reporting laws. All presidents, governing boards and employee accessories-after-the-fact of said embryo/fertility clinics are subject to indictment for negligent child abuse for the tens of thousands of those 'persons' frozen, as well as negligent homicide for any/all embryo 'persons' shed after implantation.

Anyone should now suppose that these embryos can very well become wards of the state, if and when all those parents just begging for more children out there just can 'adopt' any more. Unless the private clinics seek to establish permanent official custody of said 'persons;' and not petition for the 'persons' to become wards of the state; in either case, anything fertility clinics, their owners and assigns do to destroy or endanger the lives of these persons can make them subject to criminal charges.

Where's the outrage possee when you need 'em?

the Adria Richards incident...our nation is just SICK, man. America is hardly any better than Saudi Arabia the way its people see women. I think at the MacFarlane threads the battles were between those who see it as just entertainment and others who take a more analytical view thus those threads get the "flame" icon (to indicate 50+ replies), and I think topics that generate heated arguments/many various POVs get the flames. But in issues like abortion rights or gay marriage where DU is near united in support those threads don't get "flames". The more outrageous, the more buzz.

in states that want to restrict (and have taken actions) the right to choice, why the other party has not tried to pass legislation demanding that said State must provide for quality of life for those born.

If the belief is that life is so important that the State has a right to deny choice, then it must be that life is important enough that the State is willing to pay the price to ensure that all those born in the state have a quality of life, which entitles them to:

Adequate/decent food from post birth to adulthood, regardless of parents abilities to provide.

Adequate health care from prenatal to adulthood.

Quality education...

Shelter and clothes...

Etc.

The cost or price to provide these services should not be an issue.