THAT’S MY POINT!!!! :) :) :) People don’t understand individual rights or the Constitution.
If abortion is banned at the federal level, on the premise that protecting innocent children is now a red-alert federal issue, 51% of Congress and most people are going to also think that means we should next adopt federal health care and ban guns in homes. In fact, liberals are already accusing people opposed to S-CHIP of not being “pro-life.”
At least is it’s taken out of federal jurisdiction, we go back to state bans, and then enacting them in states that didn’t have them.
My point is if we expand the federal government’s authority with an active federal ban on abortion, Congress will use that to begin preaching they have a mandate to actively protect children. You know what they’ll do with that.
But if we do it the right way, essentially repealing Roe, it goes back to the states, where it can be argued as murder. An active federal role lays the groundwork for “Well, why aren’t you protecting them by giving them ______?”
Giving it back to the states forces them to argue it as a state issue, where it’s easier to argue it as murder. You’re just re-enacting old state laws framing it as murder, before the advent of the welfare state
Look, as long as you don’t think states can legalize murder or that the federal government doesn’t have the power to step in if they do, I’m a happy guy.