Powers not enumerated for the federal government or reserved for the states belong to the people.
What part of the Constitution says the Fed govt can regulate abortion?
Isn't murder a federal crime?
What part of the Constitution says the Fed govt can regulate abortion?
No part
Still, I would settle for making it a state issue.
The fact that people differ on whether or not an unborn child is a person is at issue. (Of course some thought slaves not fully human, but still...and the court was on the WRONG side of that one. In the end, without the consent of the governed you will always reap tension and strife.) I can live with the persuasion rule. That's what our whole system of government was supposed to be based on. That way everything gets thoroughly debated and debated and debated. We vote. Debate. Vote. Debate. Etc. We can change our minds back and forth, tweak it this way and that, and in the end we have a pretty decent standard that most of the people respect. When the judges legislate it is final, and there is nothing left for the losers but anger and passion. The plantiff side has an advantage because they can keep suing. Once something is overturned -- the right to decide taken away from the people -- then it is pretty final.
Supposedly the "right to privacy," which in convoluted reasoning is found in the Fourth Amendment. Blackman twisted, turned and bent that "right" until it resembled a "Krazy Straw" when he was done. That opinion in so full of descriptions of medical procedures, etc., etc., that I guess even his clerks were loathe at the time to remind the Justice that the regulation of professions such as medicine and law were the province of the individual states.
At least that is my understanding from my old Con Law professor, because I'll be honest - even after reading Roe, I was at a loss to explain where he found a U.S. Constitutional question that warranted the granting of cert in the matter.