Why is it a Federal crime to disturb a duck egg though it’s legal to kill an innocent child in the womb?
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Our khaki campbell duckling, Marvin, and his best friend, Two Bits, the chicken.
The story of Marvin and Two Bit
We had 5 eggs in the incubator that reached full term, but Marvin was the only one who hatched. Rather than let our chickens raise him, we decided to get some more ducklings from a friend to keep him company.
The baby mallards we got were just too old and picked on poor Marvin. They were soon separated. Getting other Khaki Campbell ducklings of the same age was proving difficult, so I brought home the bantam chick, shown above. After some initial nervousness, due to the mallard trauma, they soon became good friends.
Later in the week we managed to track down a local duck breeder. Now our current duck flock has 3 ducklings and one chick. I’m not sure what we’ll do with Two Bit once he’s older, but we’ll cross that road when it comes. (Catch that? Chickens, road crossing? Oh, nevermind)
UPDATE: Marvin is now twice the size of chicken, and um … Marvin may be a girl. We’ll see.
Question by yablocksthetruth: Why is it a Federal crime to disturb a duck egg though it’s legal to kill an innocent child in the womb?
I would really appreciate it if someone would help me understand how an egg can be considered a living animal though a fully developed child ready and able to enter the world can be legally murdered. Has this argument ever been raised legally?
Laughter: You are associating an innocent child in a mother’s womb with a parasite. Sadly, that seems to fit the Pro-Abortion model well.
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6 Responses to Why is it a Federal crime to disturb a duck egg though it’s legal to kill an innocent child in the womb?
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Crazy Animal Rightists that pay off legislators.
Those same Animal Rightists would love to mandate that people can only have ONE child and are all for abortions.
(Not that the abortion issue is my issue, it is not I think it should be a state issue if an issue at all)
But there is no logic in what they believe.
Chin T
August 10, 2013 at 5:41 pm
THAT is the value system of those on the left. “We have plenty of people already but not enough ducks”. HA!
Cactus Jack
August 10, 2013 at 5:45 pm
You got me, duck eggs are good eating if you ask me.
justanotherdick57
August 10, 2013 at 6:27 pm
Children aren’t an endangered species, some ducks are.
That’s the legality of it.
And once a duck lays that egg she can wander off and doesn’t need to support it for eighteen years. Its daddy may never show up and it won’t make a difference to the duckling or its mother.
People, their lives and needs are far more complex than an egg. A woman has the right to decide for herself what happens to her body and her life. She could, for example, die or develop a life threatening illness even during pregnancy and delivery, a duck doesn’t have the knowledge or ability to decide for herself if she wishes to risk it, surely we can all realize women do have that capability.
justagrandma
August 10, 2013 at 7:26 pm
I’m with you! People (and Government) will spend thousands if not millions of dollars to save seals, birds, any kind of animal. I saw a car with a “hatch-back” door on the rear several years ago stopped at the red light in front of me. I was there long enough to read about 25 bumper stickers stuck on the rear door saying things like: Keep America Clean. Save the Planet. Save the Dolphins. Save the barn owls. After reading these 2 dozen or so bumper stickers I came to the last one on the lower right… it said “Keep Abortion Legal”.This young woman driver is very confused and mis-guided. There is nothing wrong in any of these efforts. But the Abortion bumper sticker shows me she has absurd logic and reasoning. Where is the common sense in saving everything under the Sun, but in KILLING the truly innocent, the un-born?
Stanton
August 10, 2013 at 7:45 pm
If you are asking if the constitution demands that all laws be compatible with each other, they do not. Congress can decide that duck eggs demand greater protection and then the next session decide that condor eggs are fair game. Any argument based on the notion that congress must be reasonable in your eyes is doomed. Any argument based on the notion that a non-viable fetus is a child is incorrect as a matter of law. BTW, I suspect that if one found themselves with a duck egg as a parasite inside a human body, the person could lawfully disturb that egg and rid themselves of the parasite.
laughter_every_day
August 10, 2013 at 8:08 pm