preborn

Examples

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• Therefore, the Fourteenth Amendment protects the preborn.

  Academic text (2016)

• These statutes indicate that the preborn were included within the public meaning of the term "person" at the time the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted.

  Academic text (2016)

• 11 days until Day of the Preborn.

  Blog text (13)

• Now is the time to defend our religious liberties and the lives of the most vulnerable U.S. citizens: the preborn!

  Blog text (13)

• These arguments against constitutional personhood for the preborn have been repeated by advocates of a state-by-state approach to abortion.

  Academic text (2016)

• It is difficult to prove what a term cannot mean through negative inferences alone, but Justice Blackmun did just that when he concluded that "person" cannot include the preborn.

  Academic text (2016)

• Nevertheless, we should observe that whether states historically believed that the preborn specifically were members of the human species is not dispositive, so long as they believed all human beings were entitled to protection under the Fourteenth Amendment.

  Academic text (2016)

• Nine of the ratifying states explicitly valued the lives of the preborn and their pregnant mothers equally by providing the same range of punishment for killing either during the commission of an abortion. The "only plausible explanation" for this phenomenon is that "the legislatures considered the mother and child to be equal in their personhood."

  Academic text (2016)

• The Roe Court made much of the quickening rule in its rush to dismiss the personhood of the preborn, but failed to see that the rule was merely a tool of criminal law, not a statement about the value of life prior to perceptible movement in the womb.

  Academic text (2016)

• The doctor assured me that the health of the preborn baby is closely monitored during pregnancy.

Synonyms

B

baby

vspreborn

∞ 1.0

An unborn child growing inside the mother's body

has identical meaning but is a different word form

F

fetus

vspreborn

• Specialized

163 4.1

An unborn baby in the later stages of pregnancy

is specific to human children before birth rather than to all vertebrates

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology