Abortion is NOT MANDATED anywhere except possibly China, and certainly not in “every state in the union.”
Some of the misinformation on this thread is just amazingly and appallingly erroneous.
Fred Thompson has shown for decades, both in word and deed, that he is solidly anti-abortion. What he’s trying to get through a lot of thick skulls now is that overturning Roe v Wade is a long shot and not the best way to abolish the evil practice. He’s trying to tell you that the issue needs to be taken back from the courts and given back to right-headed Americans. Right now we have little or no say on the issue, because the Supreme Court is not answerable to public opinion.
Red states, as well as some Blue ones, will take care of it on the local level through pressure from the people. It’s a lot easier to pass state law than to get a Supreme Court ruling overturned.
Please look up the word “mandate.”
I apologize — what I meant to say is that the accessability of abortion is mandated in every state.
But overturning Roe is the way to turn this issue back to the states — that’s why Thompson wants to overturn it. A Constitutional amendment is not realistic right now — looking at the history of such amendments, they tend to bubble up from the states. So let’s return the power to ban abortion to the states, and then go from there.