Agreed.
But I am not in favor of further misinterpreting the constitution.
How? Laws that are intrinsically evil are null by virtue of the natural law.
The fact is, pro-lifers are far too focused on bad solutions to the abortion problem like judicial activism, and totally remiss in using the powers they have at hand to address the problem.
That may be, but it doesn't change the nature of Gonzalez' ruling.
There is also a political consideration. The highest abortion rates are in CA, NY, NJ, DC, MA, RI, CT, MD, IL, WA, OR, etc. If abortion were back to being a state issue, the liberals could go happily on murdering themselves and throttling their future, while conservatives could forbid abortion in our part of the country. While I am morally opposed to abortion, even for liberals, I support liberal political and demographic suicide.
Wuh? The babies of liberals are God's children!
Its fairly certain that even criminalizing abortion is not gonig to do anything to end it in those states listed above.
Again, that may be, but it still does not excuse Gonzalez' ruling.
The Constitution is not an enactment of natural law, but a framework for the basic workings of the federal government and an overall restriction on its freedom of action. The 5th and 14th Amendments prohibit the states from certain actions. They do not force certain laws. Misuing the constitution is how this all began.
If you want to outlaw abortion, get the legislatures to do it.
Wuh? The babies of liberals are God's children!
Just recognizing reality. We can mourn for the children's destruction, even while rejoicing in the political consequences for those who perform the misdeed. I'm not going to cry about liberals artificially limiting their rates of reproduction. I'll save my tears for the children.
Again, that may be, but it still does not excuse Gonzalez' ruling.
Had Gonzales ruled as you wanted, it would simply have been smacked down by the USSC. Isn't that clear by now? We need judges who will allow the laws of the legislatures to be left in force, not judges who make up law from the bench. I don't want to live in a judicial tyranny.