Look here, Johnny One Note, you can keep on blathering all you like, but you are not going to get anywhere. You are merely alienating a whole lot of people who might otherwise be your allies. I personally loathe abortion and consider it murder most foul. I would dearly love to see Ron Paul’s Sanctity of Life act passed, which would go as far as the Fed are ALLOWED to go under our Constitution. It would set the official beginning of life as being at conception, then remove jurisdiction from the Courts to hear challenges to that definition. With life being thus defined, I believe that it would not be difficult to have the States, since murder is properly a violation of STATE law, pass their own laws punishing the murder of the unborn. I fail to see where YOUR problem lies, except that it must obviously be somewhere between your ears.
The ONLY criminal acts that the Federal Government has jurisdiction over are Piracy, Treason and Counterfeiting. ALL THE REST comes under the jurisdiction of the Several States. All of it. Excepting only crimes committed on and by the military and its personnel. These are covered by the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
If you STILL have a problem comprehending this, my best advice is that you take it up with the Founders, whose wisdom and best judgment went into writing this document.
Keep in mind that the Preamble to the Constitution is a list of lofty goals. The specific grants of authority (and the limits thereon) come mainly in Article One. And that is ALL the authority granted to FedGov. Now just get over it. And get to work on your STATE legislature to do something to stop the carnage. It’s THEIR job after all.
The Fourteenth Amendment
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Did not the President of the United States, every member of Congress, and every member of the judicial branch swear to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States?
Did they swear to defend a piece of paper, or was it to defend the principles and imperative requirements of that document?
No. It is the document's clear statement of purpose.
Are you saying that you think the stated purposes of our Constitution are unattainable? Sure sounds that way, with the use of the word "lofty," as if there's no way we the people could possibly do what the Constitution says it is intended to do.
Our people, the people who stand for the unalienable rights of all, are working every day all over this country at the state level to restore and defend the unalienable rights of the child in the womb.
The ironic part is that practically NONE of the prominent pro-choice for states proponents are anywhere to be found on those battlefields. They're a bunch of lying hypocrites who are hiding behind a false position to make sure they don't have to lift a finger to protect innocent human beings.
From the GOP 2008 platform:
We support a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children.
I agree completely with the platform committee's interpretation of the Fourteenth, and with their proposed solution. Rand Paul does, too.