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In fact, Obama has cited legal opinions that the behavior the bill would outlaw was already illegal and made distinctions between "previable" fetuses that cannot survive outside the womb and post-viability fetuses that can.
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The second reason that it would probably be found unconstitutional is that this essentially says that a doctor is required to provide treatment to a previable child, or fetus, however way you want to describe it.
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The second reason that it would probably be found unconstitutional is that this essentially says that a doctor is required to provide treatment to a previable child, or fetus, however way you want to describe it.
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Obama, Senate floor, 2001: Number one, whenever we define a previable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal protection clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we're really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a – a child, a nine-month-old – child that was delivered to term.
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Just like when babies are born at a previable age or with a collection of birth defects that aren't compatible with life.
Just (Don't) Do It 1 Dinosaur 2008
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Obama "And if we're placing a burden on the doctor that says you have to keep alive even a previable child as long as possible and give them as much medical attention as - as is necessary to keep that child alive, then we're probably crossing the lines in terms of unconstitutionality."
Latest Articles WKOWTV.com 2010
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Obama "And if we're placing a burden on the doctor that says you have to keep alive even a previable child as long as possible and give them as much medical attention as - as is necessary to keep that child alive, then we're probably crossing the lines in terms of unconstitutionality."
Latest Articles WKOWTV.com 2010
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They are just older 'previable fetuses' and so no, HolyO has ZERO concern for any other children (sometimes I wonder even his own!) and the problems they may face because of democrat shenanigans 'remaking' America!
Latest Articles 2009
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Obama voiced concern that if applied to state abortion law, the "born alive" legislation's recognition of "human person" rights for the previable would complicate the legal underpinnings of abortion rights.
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I think it’s important to recognize though that this is an area where potentially we might have compromised and — and arrived at a bill that dealt with the narrow concerns about how a — a previable fetus or child was treated by a hospital.
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