re: #774 MJBrutus

I appreciate the thoughtful reply. I would like to follow up by asking you if you think that our Constitution in any way:

1) requires that we extend the legal protections we grant people to embryos?
2) prohibits such protections?
3) leaves the matter of what if any protections to grant up to we the people?

My opinion is that #1 would violate our 1st Amendment, since the only basis for granting such protections would be the religious aim of protecting souls. I do not see any way that #2 follows from any part of our Constitution , which leaves me with #3 as the answer.

I think this is a good example where relying too heavily on the constitution becomes similar to looking in the bible for answers to valve problems on the space shuttle.

The counter to any attempt to grant “people” status to undifferentiated cells, or even partially differentiated cells is bound to deny some rights to “people” that we know the constitution was designed for.

This is something for society to work out on its own.