[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Abortion is another moral question that was resolved at the state level previous to Roe v. Wade.>>

Bullspit. The inherent equality before the law of all men (which predates the Constitution and is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence) REQUIRES that no man be allowed to kill, or enslave, or abort, another.

Abortion will be destroyed nationwide the same way that slavery was, through constitutional amendment and enforcement of the Constitution throughout the land.

[babyface00]

The inherent equality before the law of all men (which predates the Constitution and is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence) REQUIRES that no man be allowed to kill, or enslave, or abort, another.

That's not the question. The question is, whether that is the domain of the federal government. The Constitution doesn't address morality between individuals, it only defines the limits of the Federal government.

The two instances where federal power has been used to solve controversial moral questions (slavery and abortion) were disasters. Slavery existed in one form or another for 100 years after the 13th amendment in this country, and it is still practiced throughout the world (and that's not even counting the enormous cost in lives of the civil war). Abortion certainly wasn't settled by Roe v. Wade, and its likely that it will take about a century for that issue to be resolved.

It's possible, and even likely, that these two evils would have been eradicated much sooner had the federal government stayed out of the way.

I hope abortion is eradicated, but I don't hope it happens the way slavery did - an extra-Constitutional bloodbath followed by 100 years of calling it something else before it finally goes away.

[H.Akston]

In a just country, equality before the law belongs to the equally responsible.