Since the right to Life is guaranteed under the Constitution

[Indenturedebtor]

Isn't adequate and reasonable healthcare then already promised us by our constitution? Couldn't a legal case be made that since the Insurance companies are demonstrably interfering with our constitutional right to healthcare that they should be removed from the system except for optional procedures like nose jobs?

Would any lawyers care to weigh in?

Thanks!

[MonkeyFunk]

1. No, the right to life is not guaranteed in the constitution.

Dunno where you got that from.

And the constitution limits government from infringing on your rights, not insurance companies.

[summer borealis]

4. Maybe that "endowed by their Creator" part

... yeah, don't go there. We wouldn't want any pre-birth types getting any ideas they had any "rights."

[MonkeyFunk]

6. And which part of the constitution would I find that in?

[MonkeyFunk]

8. no answer?

Come on Mr. Right-to-Life - tell me where in the constitution I'd find your quote.

[summer borealis]

11. Ever read that Declaration thing?

Nah .. what's the point. You got your rights. How's Hillary doing, btw?

[Crabby Appleton]

13. What part of the Constitution is the "Declaration thing" in?

what was you username before this one?

[DCKit]

2. Bill of rights, but there is legal precedent for "the pursuit of happiness"...

as an inalienable right. Therefore, it follows that the right to life is also and inalienable right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%2C_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness

[mmonk]

3. I guess then it depends on the definition of life.

The current culture of life sure doesn't mind bringing about death outside the womb. Also, abortion was legal at the time of the Constitution. Most bans against abortion began after the Civil War.

[MiniMe]

5. I think we have to be careful how far we press that, or the anti-choice jerks

will pick up on it as a meme.

[Crabby Appleton]

7. That's in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution

nor the Bill of Rights.

[Sanctified]

9. All the health-care in the world is not going to prevent you from dying. n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

10. we don't know that

because it's never been tried!

[Selatius]

12. Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is not found in the US Constitution but in the

Declaration of Independence. It's a common mistake.