[EternalVigilance]

"The whole of that Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals...[I]t establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."

-- Albert Gallatin, letter to Alexander Addison, October 7, 1789

[tacticalogic]

“On every question of construction [of the Constitution] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”

Thomas Jefferson

Is there anything in the historical record to indicate that the people who debated, wrote, and ratified the 14th amendment intended and understood it to end the practice of abortion, along with the practice of slavery?

If there is, you are on solid ground, constitutionally. If not, you are engaged in textualism and searching for "penumbras and emanations".