The Right to Life is NOW codified at the state level constitutionally...with MURDER covered under state statutes in all cases excepting the murders that occur on Federal property. Only in the case of abortion is the life issue nationalized...and this occurred in the 1970s. Until then, abortion was ALWAYS UNDER STATE LAW.
Look, I'm not trying to talk anyone into, or out of, any position. I'm observing the political landscape and offering an opinion on a course that I believe best serves both social and economic conservatives. I don't believe any compromises have to be made by either side if one takes a long-term view. A CONSTITUTIONAL view.
The Constitution states as its own crowning purpose: “To secure the Blessings of Liberty to Posterity.” The Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments forbid the taking of innocent human life. The Fourteenth Amendment also explicitly requires the States to provide for the equal protection of the laws for all persons.
Abortion is unconstitutional and therefore unlawful nationally and at the State level. If the states won’t fulfill their constitutional responsibilities, the officers of the national government have a sworn duty to do so. It isn’t “either/or,” it is “all of the above.”
The protection of unalienable God-given rights is the premise upon which our republic and our liberty are built. If the building is sagging, look to the foundation first. It’s where you’ll find the problem.
By the way, you didn’t answer my question: “Do you apply this “logic” to other unalienable rights, or just to the supreme right, the right to life?”
Do you think the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is up to the States? Free Speech? Freedom of the Press? Parental Rights? What?