Re your #15 -
"... States Rights will be revisited again real soon"
Looks like it, for sure.
Let's just hope that it turns out a lot better than it did from 1861-5!
Make no mistake about it; Abortion is every bit as divisive an issue in America today as slavery was in 1860.
Isn't it interesting that both institutions essentially "dehumanize" people?
One by the color of a person's skin; the other by their state of prenatal development.
The Negro slave was considered "property", and the featus only a mass of "tissue".
Those are not the only forms of dehumanization, of course, but may represent two of the most significant in recent History.
That part of American History between 1861 - 5 might be fun to "reenact" (which I occasionally still do) as long as only blanks are being fired at one another - but we'd best learn from it, as we sure as Hades don't want to go repeating it!
No society ever really learns from history. If anything, they use history to try and justify making the same mistakes over and over again.