Why doesn't the constitution make any references to unborn infants or pregnant women - essentially failing to

Question

define when a human life begins?

Of course, times have changed. However the constitution didn't forsee machine guns either, but gun activists still insist on interpreting the 4th amendment to the letter.

Answer 1

Interesting question. Several things to consider.... how do we determine when human life begins? At conception? At birth? When the baby first moves? Secondly, maybe the framers of the constitution felt that is was not an issue that should be determined by them. Has anyone every thought that instead of making this an issue decided by the governing bodies, maybe we, the people, should vote on the abortion issue? I am somewhat unsure why certain people feel the need to force a woman who does not want a child to carry the child to term. A woman who doesn't wish to be pregnant may not provide the level of care one should to an unborn baby. Do we want a woman to have a child she didn't want to raise that child? Would she love it as she should? Would she take good care of it? For those of you who would say what about adoption, I feel that any woman who would consider adoption would do so whether or not an abortion was an option. For some women the pregnancy itself may be more than she could bear. You have given us all something to think about,good question.

Answer 2

Well, the Constitution was written in 1776, and back then, it was okay to abort a pregnancy before the "quickening", or when the women felt the fetus move inside her. The trade in abortifacients (or drugs that cause abortion) was rampant - think herbal remedies.
Since it's so hard to amend the Constitution, and the question of when life begins is so fraught with controversy, it's unlikely that either the pro-choice lobby or the anti-abortion lobby could garner enough votes to insert a definition into the Constitution. Therefore it's not likely to be in there soon.

Answer 3

Ir was hardly relevant. Women were considered the property of men, and many children died in utero, at birth or soon after birth, as did many women.

Women were not very high on the Constitutional Convention's list of priorities, and children were inconsequential until old enough to work on the farms.

Even in the Catholic Church, it is only recently that a child younger than 9 was considered to have a soul.

Answer 4

Because our founding fathers were busy defining a political entity at the time. They weren't concerned with your religeous issues. Infact they had a meeting and voted on it. The chair made the movementl Lets leave out the abotion thing so we can f uck with Jonathan C over two hundred years from now. And everybody in the room jumped up and yelled YEA!!!

Answer 5

well they probably didn't think we would kill our kids as for the guns its the 2nd amendment not the 4th and they new that guns would get better over the years and people have been trying to make repeating guns for a long time

Answer 6

They did not have the same issues we have today. There was no abortion. I heard in one of my history classes that the baby was considered a human life after the first time the baby kicked in the womb.

Answer 7

Because when the constituation was drafted. There wasn't any clinics,hospitals, not many Drs. ( When the women was pregnant they just prayed for a healthy Youngun..))

Answer 8

Maybe they realized it was none of there goddamn business. Like most people should. No abortion my *** LOL

Answer 9

Because when it was drawn up it wasn't an issue.

Answer 10

Don't ask me....I'm pro-choice!! I think anti-choicers (pro-lifers) SUCK!!!