Once again, the problem with the left is they keep trying to make Abortion a Federal issue. They first did it by stacking the Supreme Court with liberals and giving us Roe v Wade. Before that it was a State Right. Now, finally after a half a century of 5-6 people making a moral decision for the entire nation, the SCOTUS sent the issue back to the states. We once again have FREEDOM to decide the issue on a State basis.
Unfortunately, the Liberals believe that if they don’t get what they want they must use the Federal Government to impose that will on everyone. They cannot respect that it should be left to people to vote in State representatives to decide such issues locally. They don’t like the idea of Democracy-and you don’t get closer to ‘democracy’ in a Representative Republic than you do at local and state elections.
Simply put, Abortion existed before 1790, and that is an undisputed fact. Abortion is not listed in the Constitution, or the first 10 Amendments. Which means when our nation was formed, it was ALWAYS going to be covered under the 10th Amendment—A STATE RIGHT.
If the Democrats and the rest of the nation feel so strongly that that the State’s should be denied this right, there is a process to make that happen. It’s called a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
I have long since grown tired of the Abortion issue, and the division that it causes among American’s. By all means Liberals, who claim to believe in ‘Democracy’ either change it at the State Legislatures or send it for the Amendment process. Don’t want to do that, then you don’t really believe in Democracy or the Republic do you. You just want what you want at the expense of everyone’s freedoms.
PENAL CODE
TITLE 5. OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON
CHAPTER 19. CRIMINAL HOMICIDE
Sec. 19.01. TYPES OF CRIMINAL HOMICIDE.
(a) A person commits criminal homicide if he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence causes the death of an individual
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Sec. 19.06. APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN CONDUCT. This chapter does not apply to the death of an unborn child if the conduct charged is:
(1) conduct committed by the mother of the unborn child;
(2) a lawful medical procedure performed by a physician or other licensed health care provider with the requisite consent, if the death of the unborn child was the intended result of the procedure;
(3) a lawful medical procedure performed by a physician or other licensed health care provider with the requisite consent as part of an assisted reproduction as defined by Section 160.102, Family Code; or
(4) the dispensation of a drug in accordance with law or administration of a drug prescribed in accordance with law.
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.19.htm
“No state shall...deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the law.”
Amendment XIV, Section 1
“The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment.”
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)