[EternalVigilance]

Too bad not even one of them will face up to the fact that the child in the womb is a person, and therefore should be protected by the explicit, imperative requirements of our Constitution.

[papasmurf]

Amen.

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.

James Wilson, a framer of the U.S. Constitution.

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I believe that "stir in the womb" in that time was the limit of then current knowledge/technology. Today, we know the following...

heart... At 21 days--when the mother is only seven days late for her first menstrual period--it is pumping, through a closed circulatory system.
brain... In just the fifth week after conception, the first synapses begin forming in a fetus's spinal cord.
body... In the sixth week, early neural connections permit the first fetal movements--spontaneous arches and curls of the whole body.

[10thAmendmentGuy]

Too bad not even one of them will face up to the fact that the child in the womb is a person, and therefore should be protected by the explicit, imperative requirements of our Constitution.

Justice Thomas has repeatedly stated that abortion should be a state issue. He would undoubtedly vote to repeal the federal "right" to abortion if presented with another test case. If abortion is murder, which I believe it is, then how should it not be considered a state issue? The constitution gives states he authority to regulate crimes like murder? The federal government has the constitutional authority to prosecute three crimes: piracy, counterfeiting, and treason. A federal law banning abortion would violate the Constitution. It would have to be a constitutional amendment (a Human Life Amendment), and I'd support a constitutional amendment that would force states to outlaw the practice with certain exceptions. You need 38 states, however.