Yes. In the late 19th century (when the 14th amendment was written and ratified), abortion was widely considered to be the murder of a human person and was therefore illegal throughout most the United States. Aborting an unborn child at that time was punishable regardless of whether any harm befell the pregnant woman and the fact that many of the 1860s era statutes punished not only the doctors or abortionists, but ALSO punished the women who hired them.
Furthermore, it was clearly intent of the framers of the constitution that unborn children constituted human persons that were protected by U.S. law. James Wilson, a framer of the U.S. Constitution, explained as follows: “ With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law. In the contemplation of law, life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb. By the law, life is protected not only from immediate destruction, but from every degree of actual violence, and, in some cases, from every degree of danger."
And you submit that this consitutes evidence that the intent of the 14th amendment was to take the decision of whether it should be illegal from the States, and transfer it to the federal government?
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