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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf only natural born citizens are allowed to be President, does that preclude anyone born by
Cesarean section?
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/macbeth-and-macduff-get-into-an-argument-over-semantics
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If only natural born citizens are allowed to be President, does that preclude anyone born by (Original Post)
hedgehog
Mar 2014
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hedgehog
(36,286 posts)1. Also - what if the mother is given pain killers during labor? Is the person still naturally born?
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)2. Also - just in case -
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)3. Test tube and incubator babies, foreign sperm donors...
an American woman carrying an Irish woman's baby, or vice versa?
Science makes a mess of the Constitution once again.
4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)4. Test Tube or Arti Insem
They maybe born naturally but are they natural people.
thucythucy
(7,986 posts)5. This is exactly what got MacBeth into so much trouble:
MacBeth: I bear a charmed life, which must not yield
To one of woman born.
MacDuff: Despair thy charm,
And let the angel whom thou still has served
tell thee MacDuff was from his mother's womb
Untimely ripped.
MacBeth: Accursed be the tongue that tells me so!
MacBeth, Act V, sc. viii.