Stephanie Klick Does Not Believe Preborn Babies are "Persons"
(Understanding Equal Protection)
By
James Scott Trimm
In the runoff race between Klick and Lowe for House District 91, Lowe has been criticized for supporting "Equal Protection" for the unborn. Klick's camp has falsely claimed, based on his belief in "Equal Protection", that Lowe supports the death penalty for women who abort their babies. This is actually false, because David (and myself) are opposed to the death penalty (based on the potential for wrongful convictions)and the Abolish Abortion bill which Klick blocked, and which Lowe supports (HB3326) does not mention the death penalty, only equal protection. But what does "equal protection" mean, and why is is so important?
Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution reads:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
This amendment says that a "person" cannot be deprived of "life, liberty or property" without due process. This, friends, is your Constitutional right to life! And the second phrase is very important. This second phrase says that a person is also guaranteed "equal protection of the laws". This critical right prevents there from being one "due process" to protect one class of people, and a different "due process" to protect another group of people. This amendment was passed, because, at the time, there were many who did not want African Americans to have the same protection under the law, as a white man. Today we call these people bigots.
There is a new class of bigots today. Now we have a group of people who do not want Pre-born babies to have the same protection under the law as those already born. This is a new type of bigotry.
Now if we want to abolish abortion in Texas, we simply need to declare that the pre-born are "persons". This makes prefect sense, since the Preamble of the US Constitution promises to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" and our "posterity" are by definition, the pre-born.
By declaring the pre-born to be "persons" we guarantee their "right o life" and their right to "equal protection under the law". It is very important to realize that a "person" under the 14th Amendment must be entitled to both. If you do not believe in "equal protection" for the pre-born, then you do not believe, at least Constitutionally, that they are "persons" with a "right to life". According to the 14th Amendment, all three of these things: personhood, the right to life, and equal protection of the law, go together. No one of them can truly exist without the others.
My point is, that if you do not believe in equal protection for the pre-born, (And Stephanie Klick has telegraphed very strongly that she does not, in criticizing Lowe for having this belief) then you do not really believe that the pre-born are actually "persons" with a 14th amendment right to life, and you are part of this new class of bigotry!
Unfortunately, Texas Right to Life, which has recently gone full RINO (see my last blog Texas Right to Life Goes Full RINO) and they appear to have also opposed the idea that the pre-born should have "equal protection".
There is a pro-life organization in Texas that is fighting for Texas to recognize the pre-born as persons with both a right to life and equal protection under the 14th amendment, that organization is Abolish Abortion Texas, and they are very much worthy of your support.
PS: For the record, since yesterday I have been blocked from commenting on the Texas Right to Life Facebook Page. Of course I am even more Pro-Life than they have become. Apparently their position has become so weak, that it cannot withstand debate! To Texas Right to Life: " Have I now become your enemy because I tell you the truth?" (Gal. 4:16). To everyone else: If you want to abolish abortion in Texas not just regulate it, support David Lowe for HD 91 in the runoff, and support Abolish Abortion Texas. Texas Right to Life has gone full RINO!
