So, you believe that the unborn are not persons, and are therefore not protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, as our Reagan pro-life GOP platform asserts.
No, I say that the authority to protect life is a state issue under the Constitution.
I’m with ya on stopping abortion, but you are misrepresenting Thompsons position and ignoring facts...
Read the Tenth Amendment...
“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.”
Roe vs. Wade has been interpreted to make abortion a (federal) Constitutional Right. That makes it a federal issue. If Roe vs. Wade is overtuned, the Tenth Amendment is the default position and abortion becomes a state issue again.
Opinions vary as to what each state might do with the issue, but at present, the states hands are tied.
Thompson and I agree... Roe vs. Wade must be overturned and abortion will return to the states as soon as it is.
The fight to end abortion will become a local fight then, unless congress legislates on the issue properly, which I wouldn’t expect.
Congress has never legalized abortion, the court did. I doubt that they would even now. But I also doubt that they would “outlaw” it.