[dcwusmc]

Since murder (as with all other crime not SPECIFIED in the Constitution) is a matter for the STATES to deal with and punish, how is it that abortion, on EITHER side, becomes a federal matter? FedGov is NOT GRANTED ANY AUTHORITY over crimes such as murder... and I am as against abortion as anyone here. Read (and strive for comprehension) the Tenth Amendment. Then go back and try to find where the Constitution grants fedgov original jurisdiction over murder.

But what Dr. Paul HAS done over years is to introduce a bill defining the beginning of life as at conception, and denying the federal courts jurisdiction over that definition, He gets ZERO support even from his own party who style themselves as “pro-life.”

Look it up. It’s called the “Sanctity of Life” act or something similar.

[EternalVigilance]

Like you, Ron Paul in his legislation neglected to recognize the unalienable rights of all persons, their protection by the provisions of the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments, and the Constitutional requirement that the States provide for the the equal protection of the laws for all persons within their jurisdiction. His legislation, and his position, are fatally flawed, in the most literal sense.

If you think States can allow murder within their jurisdiction and not be in violation of their obligations under the Constitution, pray tell what other unalienable rights you believe this to be true about. Free speech? Freedom of the press and assembly? The Right to Keep and Bear Arms? Trial by jury? Parental rights? What?

[EternalVigilance]

By the way: Capital offenses ARE mentioned extensively in the Constitution. And it clearly proscribes killing those who haven’t been charged, tried and convicted of such.

[EternalVigilance]

Paul's legislation says the States CAN ban abortions. But NOT that they MUST. He doesn't believe that they MUST. There is a world of difference between these two things.

"[T]he federal government has no authority whatsoever to involve itself in the abortion issue. So while Roe v. Wade is invalid, a federal law banning abortion across all 50 states would be equally invalid." --Ron Paul

Ron Paul negates the first assertion of American liberty, the assertion as self-evident truth that all men are created equal, endowed by their Creator with the rights to life, liberty and private property, and that the purpose of government is to protect those rights. He also pretends that the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments with their imperative requirement that the lives of innocent persons be protected do not exist.