The only way to make abortion a federal issue is to pass a Constitutional Amendment.
Captain Compassion has it exactly right: the only way to end abortion Constitutionally at the Federal level is to pass a Constitutional Amendment. An Amendment explicitly affirming as a matter of legal definition that the unborn are human persons. That legal declaration entitles them all to every human right enjoyed by their post-natal peers; chief among them, the Right To Life.
Even the waffling cowards who first enshrined Roe admitted that the whole legal edifice would collapse in a heap if the unborn were affirmatively recognized as persons in Law. Well, the only place in Law to accomplish that nationwide is a Constitutional “Personhood” Amendment.
“If this suggestion of personhood is established, [Roe’s] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed.”
— Justice Harry Blackmun
But until that day, if it ever comes, Trump’s stance affirming the primacy of The Constitution’s Tenth Amendment in delegating un-enumerated powers to the several States sets him apart from all comers. He should be lauded, not castigated, for rejecting the foul tactic of the Left: to carve every bullet point in their agenda into the very grain of the Federal Government — the Judiciary in particular — the swing it like a club over the heads of the People and the several States.
Happily, among the several States is exactly where the battle for the personhood of the unborn is now being most hotly pressed. Gains are few, and opposition is intense, because the loss of Roe has spun up the Blood Cultists into an amplified state of bile-spewing agitation. Still, there is greater hope for 50 State Constitutional amendments than for a single Federal one. So, yet again, Trump’s comment is germane: handle it at the State level, as The Founders and the Framers also intended.