“Mike is right about this:”
So the 10th Amendment means NOTHING to you, nmh? That’s sad.
Abortion has nothing to do with the 10th Amendment. The 10th Amendment does not empower the states to authorize the murder of anyone.
The Supreme Court has already held that the 10th Amendment merely states a Truism. It doesn’t protect “states rights” it merely reinforces the idea that the federal government is one of limited poweres by explicitly saying that any powers not granted to the federal govenment are reserved to the states or to the people.
In other words, the 10th Amendment says nothing about whether the federal government might have the power to ban abortion under the powers already granted to it by the 14th Amendment and the necessary and proper clause. It also says, nothing about whether the we should adopt a Constitutional Amendment banning abortion.
To say that we should leave this matter up to the states is basically to concede that we do not believe that an unborn child is not a person. How can we possibly say that a state has the right to legalize the killing of a class of people. If Neo-Nazis were elected in New York and legalized the killing of Jews such that hundreds of thousands of Jews were being killed in New York each year (just like hundreds of thousands of unborn children are killed in NY each year) would you still argue that the federal government should not get involved to ensure that no person is deprived of life without due process of law?