[tacticalogic]

The “intent” I said was irrelevant was the supposed intent to protect the rights of ONLY former slaves or negroes. That may have been the primary purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment, but the word “person” was chosen, not “former slave” or “negro.”

That means that making abortion a federal crime was not their intent when they wrote and ratified that amendment.

You are proposing to use the text of an amendment to transfer a power from the States to the federal government that the people who wrote and ratified that amendment did not intent for it to transfer.

[Arthur McGowan]

Re-read the Fourteenth Amendment.

Enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment against a state that has legalized abortion would NOT make abortion a federal crime. What IS a “federal crime” under the Fourteenth Amendment is denying the equal protection of the laws to some people.

I.e., it is not ABORTION that is a federal crime; it is making abortion “legal” that is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.