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Does the Supremacy Clause allow states to retain abortion rights enshrined in each states' constitution?
Would the passage of a federal abortion ban automatically repeal the
various states' constitutional amendments? Or would they be considered
void until such time that the federal law is repealed?
They ...
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Why isn't abortion premeditated murder?
canada
See Criminal Code, s. 223
A child becomes a human being within the meaning of this Act when it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother, whether or not (a) it ...
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Why isn't abortion premeditated murder?
england-and-wales
Because the law says so.
Firstly, killing an unborn child can never be murder. Murder requires killing a "person in being" which the courts have ruled does not include ...
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