[PatrickHenry]

I don't like partial birth abortions, and I wish the states would outlaw them. But could someone please tell me what provision of the US Constitution gives Congress any authority over this issue? Maybe in the military, or on Indian reservations, but that's about all the jurisdiction they have, as I see it.

[Teacher317]

IIRC (and please FReepers correct me if I'm wrong), but SCOTUS used the Interstate Commerce Clause to regulate abortion from the federal bench.

[The Mayor]

But could someone please tell me what provision of the US Constitution gives Congress any authority over this issue?

None that I can see but I do see Rights for the unborn Child

The Right to "Life" Liberty and the Persuit of Happiness

[jwalsh07]

Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments

[Askel5]

But could someone please tell me what provision of the US Constitution gives Congress any authority over this issue?

This is the trouble with pretending -- as do many libertarians, unfortunately -- that everything's a matter of "Privacy" or "Free Speech".

The mother-only right to homicide is as justifiably a matter of "privacy" as the special protection of for-profit faked-Cyber childporn is a matter of "Free Speech".

[VRWC_minion]

But could someone please tell me what provision of the US Constitution gives Congress any authority over this issue?

The SC changed that

[Dec31,1999]

It's sort of like the drug laws. They don't really have any authority over that either. It would be better to overturn Roe.

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