[ModelBreaker]

The main difference between a purely federalist approach to abortion and what we have today is that in the former each side wouldn’t be clamoring to control the federal government so it could impose its favored policies on the rest of the country. The battles would be fought in the state legislatures, and national politics would no longer be held hostage to the abortion issue.

False dilemma. The left clamors to control the federal government so that Federal judges can impose elitist-left-wing amorals on society. The right clamors to do so to appoint judges who will return the issue to the states.

[goldstategop]

The Left will never agree to having abortion returned to the States, so its a really moot argument. This is easily demonstrated by their willingness to battle at all costs a Red State's desire to ban abortion. For example, its intervention in South Dakota last year.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus