"Well, then I say to you drugs are illegal at the federal level -- that's the way we want it, in a free republic."
So you are totally fine with Abortion being legal? I mean, that is clearly the way we want it in a free republic and it is clearly consitutional because a couple of robe wearers said it is so!
They are unelected and unaccountable.
The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 was passed by both houses of Congress, and signed by the President. They answer directly to the people. The people have an opportunity every two years to change the makeup of Congress and repeal, or modify, the current drug laws.
Not so with any aspect of abortion, even partial-birth.
The people didn't want that. It was forced on them by people who argued, "you can't legislate morality" and "keep religion out of government." The moral relativists just moved the line of what was acceptable, just as they have with the definition of "obscenity." The vast majority used to know that abortion was wrong, just like they used to know obscenity was.
Abortion is just another one of your "victimless crimes" to the left. That won't work with me, because I don't concede that the government can't enforce laws against "victimless crimes" as you do.