Totally disagree . . . the Declaration of Independence mentions Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Without LIFE, nothing else if of any concern. The whole sordid and bloody mess should be overturned exactly as it was ruthlessly enacted . . . by the Supreme Court . . . it is a profound national issue.
That would be the practical effect of overturning Roe v Wade anyway. What matters most is if he will appoint conservative judges who will overturn Roe. From that point the states can begin banning abortion on their own.
Perry is right.
Legalized abortion is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Who says so? The U.S. Supreme Court, that’s who—in Roe v. Wade. All Congress has to do is find that a human fetus is a “person within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment,” and Roe v. Wade becomes a scrap of paper.
If Rick Perry does not know this, then he’s not a pro-lifer.
Perry is right.
I was very excited about Perry but now he is starting to concern me with this statement and the one the other day about homosexual marriage in New York. I’m on board with the 10th amendment too, but the tone he uses on these quotes seems to be giving aid & comfort to the left.
State’s rights never trump individual rights. Individual rights are the be-all, end-all.
I agree with him all the way.
Give it to the states and there will be less abortion.
It certainly isn’t the business of Gov’t to murder unborn babies.
In theory I actually agree with him on this one. Unfortunately we all know it will never work that way for long.
My militant lesbian cousin says she won’t rest till her “civil rights” are upheld in every state.
Actually, he is exactly correct. The only way to change that is to amend the Constitution to make abortion a federal matter. And he has been consistent in his position concerning the 10th Amendment.
When conflicted, forgetful, or feel the need to fib, just say “States’ Rights”.
Yes, BUT.
Had this been considered a states right issue like damn near everything should be ya gots to know a hole passel of babies would be alive today.
States like N.Y. and Mass. and Calif are going to push it no matter what.
It always was a states’ rights issue until the feds poked their noses into it. Almost all of them had made it illegal if I am not mistaken.
Murder is, in fact, also a state issue which is why the State tries your run-of-the-mill murderers not the Feds.
The Gerald R. Ford position, exactly.
Reagan was a personhood, Fourteenth Amendment prolifer.
Which is why the GOP platform has been a personhood, Fourteenth Amendment platform for the last twenty seven years.
IF we assume that we will not see a day when there is a Federal ban on abortion, then you have to ask yourself, “What steps can we take to reduce the number of abortions in America?”
A good start might be to allow individual states to outlaw abortion.
Having said that, I’m not thrilled with a presidential candidate suggesting that abortion is a state’s rights issue.
Perry is dead wrong. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments say that powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states or TO THE PEOPLE, and that the enumeration of certain powers is not to be interpreted as derogating other powers reserved to the states and to the people.
Human babies are part of THE PEOPLE. THE PEOPLE are sovereign, not the states.
No state has the power to declare that some people may be murdered with impunity.
The first states to “legalize” abortion should have been expelled from the Union. The fact that they were not changes nothing. They ought to have been. When the Supreme Court pretended to have the power to prohibit laws against abortion, the governors should have nullified Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. The fact that they did not changes nothing. They still have the obligation to do so, even if it is forty years too late.
Just as with legalized slavery, legalized abortion is a cancer. It is irreconcilable with the Declaration and the Constitution, and if tolerated, it will eventually bring the destruction of the Union.
Rick Perry Categorizes Abortion as a States’ Rights Issue
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If Perry believes that, then why hasn’t he moved ahead and had Texas declare abortion an act of murder?
I’m afraid Perry is pro-life as far as he’s concerned, but OK with the pro-choice argument.
Not good.
I believe that Roe V Wade ruled pretty much along those lines. In practice, the right for a woman to murder her unborn children has been declared absolute.
They already do. Abortion is not special. It is murder just the same as walking up and shooting somebody. And prosecution of such a crime belongs at the state level.
Perry is right, if Roe were overturned the issue would automatically revert back to the states.
Actually the federal government never made abortion legal, the supreme court did.
This is because our government, the federal government, has never passed a federal law outlawing or legalizing abortion that I am aware of.