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I agree this "send it back to the states to decide" stuff won't work with abortion. We tried that back in the 1860s over another "highly contentious hotly debated moral issue", slavery. Stephen Douglas' "popular sovereignty" plan blew up in his face when they tried it in Kansas, and the same thing would happen in "swing states" with abortion if they threw it back to the states. The pro-life and pro-choice camps would descend into a swing-state and an all out war would break out.

Abortion is one of those issues that isn't going away and needs to be banned nationally via a human life amendment, or having the Supreme Court reverse itself in the way Brown v. Board of Education created a national reversal of Plessy v. Ferguson.

And the funny thing is when Harriet Miers was caught making the same kind of "federalist" remarks Thompson made about abortion in 1994 (to paraphrase... 'I'm reluctant to say the federal government should come in and criminalize a woman's right'), there was a huge backlash against her in the conservative community and it derailed her Supreme Court nomination -- NOBODY stood up and praised her "federalist" credentials for opposing federal involvement.

I'm not really sure why we're even talking about a total ban when there's an unconstitutional judicial decision protecting murder that no one in government has seriously tried to remove and few with that intention.

Also, we don't need a human life amendment, but rather a government that will recognize and enforce the fifth amendment. You also run into the problem where, due to overwhelming sentiment across both parties, "exceptions" would be allowed, which could easily be expanded and nullify the whole amendment.