Fred is right. The (federal) governemnt should stay completley out of it. Don’t ignore the first part of the paragraph, and just focus on the last.
Though I would prefer a return to the states over the status quo, I would venture this: The abortion issue has no more place being decided in the various states than the slavery issue does. Either a fetus is a human and deserves protection under the 14th Amendment or it isn’t and doesn’t. A state should have no kmore right to legalize killing a fetus than it does to legalize buying an African and making him pick cotton.