In America, our constitutional protections rest on the Founders' premise that each and all individuals are "endowed by their Creator" with the unalienable right to both life and the liberty to enjoy it, or, in their words, "the pursuit of happiness."
The sole reason these rights were deemed unalienable is that both are derived from the Creator--not from the mother or father, and not from government or judicial decision. What is "granted" by human decision also can, by implication, be withheld.
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them (life and liberty)," said Thomas Jefferson.
"The world is different now. . . and yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forefathers fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
That understanding underlies every other consideration embodied in our Declaration of Independence and every protection of our Constitution. It is the very basis of our rights to life and liberty, of laws to protect them, and it distinguishes ours from other forms of government.
When we fail to acknowledge that foundation of our liberty, then we risk liberty itself for future generations, for where does the right to choose who lives and who does not really end?
That is why the question is of vital importance in each election. Already, we have deprived millions of their Creator-endowed rights to life and liberty, and our nation must be weaker for their loss. We need leaders who understand the implications and potential consequences of departing from our founding principles.
In recent decades, technological advances have enabled us to observe the characteristics and actions of God's tiniest creations in the womb. Unlike previous generations who could not see, we have no excuse for imagining that these are mere blobs of tissue labeled "fetuses." In their early weeks, we now can see that they are living babies who will continue on to possess life and liberty if we do not "destroy" both. Indeed, they are simply smaller versions of ourselves.
Clinton's clever semantic maneuver which conflates "women's health" with the death of a viable and distinct "other" masks an agenda that is not consistent with the underlying principles of the Framers' Constitutional protections for liberty.
“A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO HER BODY ENDS AT THE BEGINNING OF HER BABY’S BODY.”
And to sum up your words and the assertions of the D of I that are presumed in the Constitution, the ONLY power the feds have are those DELEGATED AND ENUMERATED in the Constitution. As with MOST act of the feds, so here, the feds interference with state anti-abortion laws are patently unauthorized by the Constitution and, therefore, illegal and are acts of tyranny.
The American People need to once again embrace the fact that the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land against the feds and is our ONLY legal bulwark of freedom against the tyranny of the feds.
Most of the federal government is unconstitutional and needs to be dismantled. But I know of no power on earth that is strong enough to send hundreds of thousands of officials, bureaucratic heads, and government workers packing with no job. And yet that is EXACTLY what needs to happen if America is to be a free Constitutional Republic once again.
Bottoms Up: It would help if the states started exercising their constitutional sovereignty and began nullifying unconstitutional acts of the feds, but of course that would mean state officials having the guts to become financially independent of the feds - something that would be wonderful. Maybe somewhere in there the America People could become more interested in their own freedom and limited government.
Top Down: Trump’s VP (not Pence IMO) being the guy who walks into the WH in 2024 and has the resolve to withstand the firestorm when he determinedly begins firing and dismantling the unconstitutional majority of his cabinet bureaucracies and doing the same to the wholly unconstitutional Administrative/Regulatory State.
I’m not trusting in Trump or man, because what needs to happen is too big for man. It will take the same Hand of Providence that brought the miraculous birth of the free Constitutional Republic of America against the most powerful force in the world, England.