1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to 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 of law; nor deny to any person within its the equal protection of the laws.
2.Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
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This amendment of the constitution gives us a definition of citizenship. It says that all people there where born in the US are citizen and have the right to the same privileges. Every person has equal protection under law, and no person can be denied life, liberty, and property. This amendment was written after slavery was abolished making slaves citizens too and not property. This amendment also said that African Americans were to be counted as a whole person instead of 3/5s a person as they were before because of the 3/5s compromise.
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11/19/2009
Thoughts:
Although this amendment is talking about who is considered a citizen by the government I believe that this video has some good points. We all want to be guaranteed the same rights as a citizen but not everyone wants to put time in effort into their community. I believe we all should share the responsibilities of keeping this country together, whether it be just keeping the country clean, or taking care of the community you live in.
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Teen Denied Citizenship for Refusal to Receive HPV Vaccine
By Matt Anderson
September 16, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A 17 year old British immigrant to the United States has been denied citizenship over her refusal to take the controversial HPV vaccine Gardasil, which is required of all female immigrants to the US.
Simone Davis, a devout Christian, says that she doesn't know why she should have to take the vaccine because she has taken a pledge to remain a virgin until marriage.
"I am only 17 years old and planning to go to college and not have sex anytime soon," she told ABC News. "There is no chance of getting cervical cancer, so there's no point in getting the shot."
Simone, who was abandoned by her mother while still a baby, now lives with her paternal grandmother, Jean Davis, in Port St. Joe, Fl. Davis was awarded legal custody of Simone in Great Britain when Simone was 3. When Jean immigrated to the United States in 2000, the adoption wasn't recognized until 2006. Now, Davis is seeking to make Simone a U.S. citizen.
Davis, who already has U.S. Citizenship, says that she is concerned about the safety of Gardasil for her granddaughter/adopted daughter.
"If I have a choice, I would choose no...for no risk," says Davis. "I am a citizen and I'm trying to do everything legally and correctly and this rule takes away my parental responsibility and takes away my choice."
"My choice to make an informed decision for the health of my child has been taken away ... How can they call this America, the land of the free? Where are my parental rights?"
Simone is also apprehensive about the safety of the HPV shot.
"I don't want to have that shot. I've read a lot of stories about it...a lot of stories with parents saying that their kids' lives have been ruined by the shot."
As LifeSiteNews has reported Gardasil has been linked to 47 deaths since its release in 2006. In 2008 alone, the FDA documented 6,723 "adverse events" related to Gardasil; 1,061 were considered "serious," and 142 considered "life threatening."
The National Vaccine Information Center's (NVIC) website lists arthralgia, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and seizures as adverse effects of the vaccine.
Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder of the NVIC, believes that nobody should be forced to receive a vaccination.
"We do not support requirements for vaccine use for anyone, whether they are a U.S. citizen or they are trying to become a U.S. citizen," Fisher told LifeSiteNews.
"The right to informed consent, to using a pharmaceutical product that carries the risk of injury or death is a human right, and this young woman should not be denied the right to become a U.S. citizen simply because she does not want to take the risk with an HPV vaccination."
Fisher says that tests like the Pap smear eliminate the need for the HPV vaccine. "There is no reason why any woman should be required to take this vaccine as a condition of becoming a U.S. citizen. HPV infection is almost entirely preventable with Pap smear screens, which have been a routine part of health care in the U.S. since the 1960's."
"It is absolutely unjustified to force women immigrants in this country to use a pharmaceutical product like Gardasil vaccine that carries risks that are not totally known yet."
For more information on Gardasil please visit: www.nvic.org
To voice your concern over this case, please contact the Texas Service Center of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, which is overseeing the case:
Thoughts:
I do think that it is silly to deny someone citizenship to the united states over something they choose not to do when it comes to their own health and well being. Also doesn't seem fair that they would deny a woman from being a US citizen over a shot that may or may not prevent cervical cancer, which is not contagious, yet they can not force men to take a shot like this. I do think its good that we don't just let anyone in the US, that there must be rules to be followed in order to become a citizen, but getting a vaccine against HPV should not be one of them.
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