“Federalism doesn’t do much for people who have been killed.”
Oh, It doesn’t, does it? Why don’t you try calculating how many states would ban abortion outright if Roe v. Wade were overturned. It would be 20-25. You can’t tell me that that little does of federalism wouldn’t save lives. And the only candidate I trust on the issue of federalism, the only one who has credibility, is Fred Thompson. None of the others, not Duncan Hunter or any of them, can be trusted on the issue.
People who want to hold out for a Constitutional Amendment miss the point. Such an amendment cannot pass until the legislatures of three fourths of the states will concur(even if we could get two thirds of both houses of Congress to pass it). The only way to achieve this ultimately is to return the issue to the political process, and the only way to do that is to return it to the states (i.e.-federalism). So your statement about federalism is counterintuitive.
I don't know anyone who wants to merely "hold out" for a Constitutional amendment and I don't even know how that would practicably be done.
Whatever may be done, must be done, to protect all. But, the Creator endowed Right to Life trumps technicalities and structural matters such as federalism.