Many people who revere the original Constitution are appalled at how the 14th Amendment, as carried to bizarre extremes by the courts, has extinguished state sovereignty.
Relevant to the original point of this thread might be this: Does any citizen has the right to "choose" to deprive another human being of life (and thereby of every other freedom), just because they are unborn?
We now know from ultrasound and other evidence how trivial birth is, compared to other events in life. There must be hundreds of thousands of people walking around who were born prematurely. One might ask why their shrivelled, grotesque little bodies were not thrown out like aborted fetuses? After all, it's not convenient or cheap to keep a severely premature infant alive. Does someone's value or right to live depend entirely on the will of someone more powerful?
We're all likely to be infirm, decrepit, and dependent someday. Would you like your life to depend on whether someone else finds you "convenient" to have around, or would you rather stick with the Judeo-Christian belief that all human life is sacred? This is not a small issue, it is not a "single issue." It goes to the heart of what civilization is.
The Bill of Rights are not about morality. They are about Freedom.
You may really believe that the majority feels as you do but the United States is a Republic and if the people of the United States wanted abortion to be illegal they would vote such that only pro- life candidates would win. Pelosi would not be speaker. Clinton would have never been elected. The Bush Gore contest would have not been close. The Democrat party would disappear. And the Supreme Court would be filled with nine pro-life Justices.
The election results speak the truth of how people really feel. At least the majority.
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Exactly right.