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What does the 14th Amendment mean in much simpler term?

  • I have somewhat of an idea of what the 14th Amendment mean, but it's so wordy so it gets kind of confusing. For school, I had to choose a topic where I pretend to pass a bill applying to that topic, and I decided to do abortion. Personally, I feel that abortion should be illegal, and that's just my own opinion. But anyway, I know that abortion somewhat applies to the 14th amendment, but I'm still slightly confused. What I need to do is find information from the Constitution(amendments,exc) to help back up my pretend bill of having abortion become illegal. Could someone please help explain what the 14th Amendment mean in a more simple way? And also if you know anyway how I could use information from the 14th Amendment, and have the information support my pretend bill, that would help me so much! Thanks in advance, and I hope what I was trying to say wasn't that confusing.

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    It says a lot. But you only want the first section. Where it says ''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.'' Now, Technically, this would make abortions illegal, as an abortion deprives a person of life without due process of law. But everyone just ignores that right now....but the Amendment is very clear. You could say that if we enforce this, then abortions would be illegal.

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Sure. In Roe v Wade, the legalization of abortion was justified using the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. Essentially, the Supreme Court argued that there was an implied right of privacy in the due process clause. Basically, due process rights are those legal rights the government owes to you, like obtaining a search warrant before searching your property for evidence of a crime. When the government violates one of your legal rights, that's a due process violation. Even though the 14th Amendment makes no specific mention of privacy and just addresses liberty, the Court interpreted somewhere in those due process rights lay this implied right to privacy. If you wanted to argue against abortion, you could make the case that the 14th Amendment protects substantive due process rights (life, liberty, and property) and that fetuses, being both alive and human, are just as entitled to these substantive due process rights as individuals who are born. Essentially, you would be moving back the line when personhood starts. If you can establish that a fetus is a person, then you can argue that a fetus' right to life falls under the 14th Amendment the same as yours and mine. Good luck!

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Your right to privacy is an unenumerated right. I find it impossible to believe that you did not know that. Ah, conservatism.

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