Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced legislation Thursday to effectively outlaw U.S. abortions by counting fetuses as citizens.
Paul's bill, the Life at Conception Act, would lend the protections of the 14th Amendment to unborn humans, entitling them to due process and equal protection rights.
Paul's office said the measure "does not amend or interpret the Constitution" but merely relies on its current language. The 14th Amendment was ratified during Reconstruction to protect the citizenship of newly freed slaves.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
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