FOOD FOR THOUGHT AND…

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

From IF A FOETUS IS A PERSON…

“Typically, parents apply for a Social Security number when they obtain a birth certificate, but if states declare that personhood begins at some earlier arbitrary point in time, they will need to provide evidence, perhaps through a life certificate, that this new person exists and resides in their state. Once the life is established, can a mother insure a six-week fetus and collect if she miscarries? Will the tax code be adjusted in these states to allow parents to claim their unborn children as dependents at conception? If so, can a woman who suffers more than one miscarriage in a fiscal year claim all of her?

“There are no laws that allow the United States to deny citizenship rights to a natural-born citizen merely because they reside with, or in, a noncitizen. Detaining any person without arraignment or trial violates the Constitution and international human rights laws. A fetus has not committed a crime, not been arraigned or charged, not weathered a trial by a jury of its peers, not had the opportunity to confront its accuser. These laws redefining personhood surely mean that a pregnant woman cannot be incarcerated, as doing so requires confining a second person without due process.

“Every state permits the custodial parent—who has primary physical custody of the child and is primarily responsible for his or her day-to-day care—to receive child support from the noncustodial parent.8 Because a fetus resides in its mother, and receives all nutrition and care from its mother’s body, the mother should be eligible for child support as soon as the fetus is declared a person—at conception in Alabama.

“Trying to define citizenship and personhood based on the laws of each state creates some far-fetched and even ridiculous scenarios. If we follow that logic, we will tie our Constitution into a knot no court can untangle.”

Carliss N. Chatman, If a Fetus Is a Person, It Should Get Child Support, Due Process, and Citizenship, 76 WASH. & LEE L. REV. ONLINE 91 (2020), https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlulr-online/vol76/iss2/2

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ALABAMA has become the latest state to ban diversity, equity and inclusion [DEI] initiatives. On Wednesday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill that forbids those programs in public colleges and offices. The bill, SB 129, mandates that DEI offices and initiatives that are funded by public colleges or government agencies be dramatically changed or removed altogether. In addition, it aims to stifle academic lessons that center gender, race, or identity [the bill refers to them as “divisive concepts”].

I’d like to know, who made them divisive? Sure doesn’t make me want to go to school or college or work in a government agency in Alabama….

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HERE COME THE CLOWNS – Not to be too disrespectful, but what riches await us in outer space? — “Keep track of things going on in our solar system and all around the universe.” –N.Y. Times [Nan says: ….Don’t forget Heaven…]

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ANOTHER TOPIC, ENTIRELY:

One of the advantages of being free is writing and sharing something imperfect. I’ve sure been known to do that! It helps keep me “cleaned out.”

WHY NOT?

I’m cold and I’m old

and I wish I was thirty

and warm.

I’m old and I’m told

to just write the best

that I can.

If I could I would

so put up with me