The 14th amendment does not only apply to citizens. Here again, you seem to have a basic misunderstanding of what is being said in the constitution. Whether it is deliberate or simply a failure to understand, I won't hazzard a guess.
First, lets take a look at the 14th amendment.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The first, and most obvious thing to notice is that there is a sentence followed by a sentence that is composed of two clauses separated by a semicolon. It isn't just enough to read the words, you must look at and understand the punctuation used in order to understand what is being said. Some knowledge of the historical context in which the words are written is usefull as well.
Prior to the writing of the 14th amendment, Richard, individual states were in charge of citizenship. A person was first a citizen of the state he or she lived in, and secondary to that was a citizen of the US. The first sentence of the 14th amendment establishes that persons born or naturalized here were FIRST citizens of the US, and secondary to that were citizens of the state that they lived in.
Next we are presented with a sentence that is composed of two clauses separated by a semicolon.
The first clause of the second sentence establishes that since persons who are born or naturalized here are first and foremost citizens of the US that they are entitled to the rights specified in the constitution and the bill of rights. At the time, there were many problems with states deciding that they didn't necessarily have to grant constitutional rights to their citizens.
The second clause is separated from the first by a semicolon. Let me make you completely aware of the purpose of a semicolon in a sentence.
Semicolon - the punctuation mark used to indicate a major division in a sentence where a more distinct separation is felt between clauses or items on a list.
If you read the second clause as if it were no more than a continuation of the first in light of the fact that it is separated by a semicolon, you are reading like a school child and are missing the meaning and intent of the statement.
The second clause of the second sentence establishes that there are certain rights that all persons have whether they are citizens born or naturalized have. Refer to U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark 169 U.S. 649 (1898), ick Wo v. Hopkins (1886) 118 U.S. 356, Law Ow Bew v. U.S. (1892) 144 U.S. 47, Fong Yue Ting v. U.S. (1893) 149 U.S. 698, Lem Moon Sing v. U.S. (1895) 158 U.S. 538, and Wong Wing v. U.S. (1896) 163 U.S. 228. These cases established that persons, whether citizens or aliens, "are entitled to the protections of the second clause of the 14th Amendment: "No State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws."
In the Roe decision, Justice Blackmun acknowledged that if the personhood of unborns is established, that roe will collapse because the unborn would be entitled to the protection of the 14th amendment.
Now feel free to refer to any legal dictionary for the definition of "person". You will find that in order to be considered a person in the eyes of the law, one only need be a human being.
In order for any person to be denied the right to live, law must be legislated that describes which right is being denied, which person is having that right denied, why that person is having the right denied. To date, I have seen no legislation that specifically denies the right of unborn human beings to live. Have you?
There exists, this very day, case law that establishes the personhood of unborns because men are in jail today having been sentenced for the killing of unborns. Such could not be the case if unborns were not persons.
