"But that doesn't change the fact that constitutionally, the issue belongs at the state level, not federal."
Like slavery?
How does a matter of life or death only matter on the state level?
That is insane.
Exactly like slavery, as a matter of fact, before the 13th Amendment.
How does a matter of life or death only matter on the state level? That is insane.
Because that is where the issue belongs. You asked earlier, "If abortion is wrong, what difference does it make what "level" it is decided on?" If it doesn't matter, then we ought to campaign for the United Nations to impose an abortion ban worldwide. But we don't (I hope, that is, that you don't). Why? Because the U.N. has no legitimate authority to do anything of the kind. Similarly, I am unaware of where the federal government of the U.S. has been Constitutionally empowered to ban or regulate abortion. The federal Constitution empowers the federal government to do a few certain specific things, prohibits it from doing others, and reserves other rights to the states and the people. If regulating murder is not one of those enumerated powers, then it falls to the states.