For anyone who has not seen my comments on the thread entitled Right to Life Amendment Poll:
There are a few things that I disagree with in this Amendment, but I would probably vote to support it as I agree with the intended result.
Not only is this federal law, but this is a federal constitutional amendment. The purpose of the Constitution should be to grant (or deny) rights and powers to Atlasian's citizens and branches of government.
At this point I realize rewriting this is probably out of the question. But in my opinion, a better text would be something along the lines of saying "No person shall be deprived of life from conception until natural death." While abortion should definitely be a crime and euthanasia probably should be a crime, (I say probably because I can see how doing so could be a violation personal liberty unlike abortion.) criminalizing and penalizing an action should be statute and not an Amendment.
Since the Death Penalty is something carried out by the government and not citizens, a Constitutional Amendment would be appropriate to grant all citizens the right not to be executed by the government (which I believe my wording above would include) or to take the rights away from the regions to executive criminals. However, once again, the penalty if the regions were to executive someone should be statute and not part of the Amendment.
This is similar to the discussion related to the secret ballot amendment that once the amendment passes, statute is still needed for the amendment to have any actual affect.
