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.
Your position IS extreme. It gives the president, in his sole judgment, the right and duty to override both the Supreme Court and Congress as to what is constitutional.
Any President who tried this would promptly have had such an operation defunded by Congress, followed in due order by his impeachment and removal from office. As well it should. The President is not a dictator.
Alternatively, every President since Nixon SHOULD have threatened every state that legalized abortion with expulsion from the Union.
Which article of the Constitution gives the President any such power?
Up to Roe, abortion regulation had always been a state matter, with the feds not involved. IMO, and I suspect that of most around here, that is where it belongs. Any federal government that can enforce uniform anti-abortion laws in a country so divided on the issue is one that is much too powerful.