An English law book once essentual to understand the nature of Law in general and part of all Law studies in the US and driven out of fashion about 1915 under Woodrow Wilson, a University Law instructor who made it to the Presidency in order to violate all his dictates on Constitutional law in the books he wrote during his teaching years.
Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780) 4 Volumes – 1st edition
Oxford-Printed at the Clarendon Press, 1765-1769
The RIGHTS OF PERSONS- BOOK I-Chapter 1
“THIS natural life being, as was before observed, the immediate donation of the great creator, cannot legally be disposed of or destroyed by any individual, neither by the person himself nor by any other of his fellow creatures, merely upon their own authority. Yet nevertheless it may, by the divine permission, be frequently forfeited for the breach of those laws of society, which are enforced by the sanction of capital punishments ; ……”
AAAhhh wisdom….and abortion on a persons own whims a grant of “right” by a Court? More by Blackstone below from the same section.
‘At present, I shall only observe, that whenever the constitution of a state vests in any man, or body of men, a power of destroying at pleasure, without the direction of laws, the lives or members of the subject, such constitution is in the highest degree tyrannical : and that whenever any laws direct such destruction for light and trivial causes, such laws are likewise tyrannical, though in an inferior degree ; because here the subject is aware of the danger he is exposed to, and may by prudent caution provide against it. “
Tyranny?? What say you? Infants in the womb cannot be “…aware of the danger he is exposed to, and may by prudent caution provide against it. “ No infant in utero ran from the educated assasine seeking his life. More by Blackstone below.
“LIFE is the immediate gift of God, a right inherent by nature in every individual ; and it begins in contemplation of law as soon as an infant is able to stir in the mother’s womb. For if a woman is quick with child, and by a potion, or otherwise, killeth it in her womb ; or if any one beat her, whereby the child dieth in her body, and she is delivered of a dead child ; this, though not murder, was by the antient law homicide or manslaughter. But at present it is not looked upon in quite so atrocious a light, though it remains a very heinous misdemeanor. “
Why when the “….infant is able to stir in the mother’s womb” comment?? Because that was the best medical capability they had in their day. Today we can see by ultra sound the infant before “stirring in the womb”. We have better capabilites and more lawless infantacide.
“AN infant in ventre statute mere, or in the mother’s womb, is supposed in law to be born for many purposes. It is capable of having a legacy, or a surrender of a copyhold estate made to it. It may have a guardian assigned to it ; and it is enabled to have an estate limited to its’ use, and to take afterwards by such limitation, as if it were then actually born. And in this point the civil law agrees with ours.”
If you leave a legacy in your will to an infant in utero your will can be overturned as invalid since there are no living infants in the womb, only medical tissues known as “fetuses”. No appointment of guardians is allowable as their are no living wards in the womb.
Blackstone comments on social duties from the time of Constitine (310 AD approximately)
“For the edicts of the emperor Constantine, commanding the public to maintain the children of those who were unable to provide for them, in order to prevent the murder and exposure of infants, an institution founded on the same principle as our founding hospitals……”
Now haven’t we “evolved” into nice progressive barbarians under “abortion rights”?