You are correct, I agree that there are due process protections listed in the COnstitution, which really isn’t my main arguement anyway.
I’ll try it this way:
1)If life begins at conception (my own belief), the 5th and 14th amendment, indeed do apply, as you say, and I would agree.
2)Since our wonderful SCOTUS has determine that life does not begin at conception (which is the only way the Court could come to the conclusion it did) the 10 amendment applies.
We would both agree, that abortion is unconstitional, especially as it stands today, federally mandated/ordained,regardless of anyone’s opininion of when life begins.
Well, looks to me like we’re making some progress.
But, let me say, the courts are not the only ones who are sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. Every officer of government, in every branch, and at every level of government, takes pretty much the same oath.
The Tenth Amendment in no way applies to the subject, though.
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Governmental "powers" are not the same as individual, God-given, unalienable, "rights." You're mixing apples and oranges.