Well, tossing it back to the states is perhaps the practical plan of action, at least for now. But inalienable rights should be protected at all levels of gubberment, be it state or national or whatever. If a state has legal baby butchery for a few hundred years, I could easily see them eventually extending the murder age limit to kids under one year if the parents would wish it, because evil will keep creeping along.
Freegards
True! Several months back here on FR there was an article about an “ethicist” in Britain who seriously proposes that parents have the right to kill their babies until 3 months after birth. His reasoning is that a “defect” in the child might not be apparent from ultrasound or in the early newborn stage, but if something crops up (like brown eyes?!?), then a 3-month old baby is not really “human” yet because it does not have a “consciousness” of itself as a separate entity, and therefore the mother has the right to kill it.
So the evil does creep. It starts with contraception, which removes procreation entirely from sex and makes it a matter of pleasure, basically using another person’s body for masturbation (pardon my language, but this is now what relationships often are, with “hook-ups” replacing dating, no personal meaning)...to the viability concept (which once meant abortion only in first trimester) to full-term abortions, to partial-birth, and now we have infanticide occurring regularly.
From the other end of the life span the evil creeps along too, from euthanasia for a suffering old person, to assisted suicide for any sick person, to court mandated-murder of the disabled as with Terri Schiavo, a young woman.
What scares me about Obama and some like him (Hillary, Pelosi, Boxer, UN, PP, Unicef, etc), is they don’t seem just neutral on killing babies, they actually seem obsessed with promoting abortion and all forms of things that promote death and promiscuity. In “Audacity of Hope” Obama discusses abortion 26 times. It’s as if death is their religion.