Politics

The Founding Fathers Knew a Fetus Is Not an American Person

ORIGINAL INTENT

If they thought that the fetus is already a human, then a foreign person could legitimately be elected president.

Marshall Sahlins
Marshall Sahlins
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Marshall Sahlins

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