Under our system of law, there is no question that abortion is a matter left to the states, because it is not addressed in our Constitution. It’s just not enumerated in the Constitution. 10th Amendment. That was clearly understood for nearly 200 years. We are so conditioned by the leftwing desire to federalize every issue, that it’s difficult to conceive of the states deciding those issues, but they did for decades. Important does not equal federal. Thank God, because Washington is obviously a cesspool. Alas, federalism is probably dead anyway. The alternative under our laws is to amend the constitution. I don’t have a lot of hope, but I tend towards pessimism.
As for the left recruiting libertarians to fight their battles, I have to ask for an example. Libertarians don’t make much of a voting block (like 1% or so in a strong year), and the Left hates them even more than ansell does. Given that electoral weakness, I don’t think the Left would even bother.
“there is no question that abortion is a matter left to the states,”
Again, the position that abortion is wrong because it kills a living person would reject this position altogether. If the unborn child is living then states do not have jurisdiction to kill them.
“We are so conditioned by the leftwing desire to federalize every issue”
Personhood is a federal issue. Do you contest this?