[pgyanke]

I can appreciate his view... it's very nuanced. However, it smacks right up against reality. Our founding fathers put life as the first right enumerated in the Declaration of Independence and referenced our posterity in the Preamble of the Constitution for a reason... without a right to life, no other right is exercisable.

We shouldn't need a Constitutional Amendment to protect the rights of babies in the womb... but we do because of activist liberal judges.

[MrB]

“because of liberal activist judges” -

based on the premise that the federal government has the right to “veto” states’ laws in order to “protect individual rights” (this premise was REJECTED by those arguing for ratification) - the fedgov has expanded and destroyed any ability by the states to govern themselves.

On the right, some are wanting to use the EXACT SAME PREMISE for their own pet cause. Leave it to the states where it belongs. Abortion is NOT mentioned in Article I, Section 8, so it is outside the jurisdiction of the fedgov.