Every state is required to provide a republican form of government.
No state has a right to legalize murder, any more than they have a right to take away the right to free speech, free assembly, the right to petition government, the right to keep and bear arms, etc.
It amazes me that people can not discern the difference between keeping the federal government within its enumerated powers and all government’s, including the federal government’s, primary duty to protect and uphold unalienable rights.
This sort of willful ignorance holds to potential for the final death of this free republic.
When and if a state alienates God-given rights, who has a duty to do something about it?