[PapaNew]

Life is not a "States-Rights" issue. It belongs at the federal level.

The Constitution does not delegate issues of abortion or murder to the federal government. If it is not a power delegated to the federal government by the Constitution, then it is not a federal issue but a states issue.

[SoConPubbie]

The Constitution does not delegate issues of abortion or murder to the federal government. If it is not a power delegated to the federal government by the Constitution, then it is not a federal issue but a states issue.

Let me ask you, given that the Declaration of Independence states:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

Are you really stating, with a straight face, that the good Christian Gentlemen (the Founders) who signed the constitution did not mean to protect all human life, even the unborn?

Do you really think that, if they had known, that a sizable portion of the US Electorate would succumb to the evil notion that it was OK to sacrifice their children on the Alter of Convenience and murder their own unborn children that they would not have added a prohibition against this in the original document or in the amendments?

Do you not think, that if they were alive today, they would not have started a war over just this issue alone?

[LibLieSlayer]

Very true but... the second sentence in the document that declared our Independence from King George clearly states three INALIENABLE RIGHTS BESTOWED BY GOD. What is the first right mentioned in the second sentence ever put to paper by what was to become the United States of America?

[little jeremiah]

And if a state legalized murder, it would be taken to SCOTUS and shot down.