Nope. I’m aggressively pro-life.
I’m merely pointing out that the President has no constitutional right to issue such a Proclamation, just as Lincoln has no such right other than as a war measure.
This president, for that matter, is a whole lot more likely to issue a Proclamation requiring all states to fully fund all abortions, including the partial-birth variety, at taxpayer expense.
Thank you for your quick response … now you original post makes sense.
Actually, the President has always (I mean, since Roe v. Wade) had the authority to declare that, in the judgment of the Executive Branch, any state that legalizes abortion is violating the 14th Amendment by depriving some persons of “equal protection of the laws.” Any President from Nixon forward has had the right and duty to send troops into the states to shut down abortion clinics.
Alternatively, every President since Nixon SHOULD have threatened every state that legalized abortion with expulsion from the Union.
But that would have been so EXTREME. It’s only 50 million babies we’re talking about. Let’s wait until this problem becomes serious.