What is your scenario for outlawing abortion at the federal level? How do you see that unfolding?
National Right to Life Praises Thompson’s voting record
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1922280/posts?page=25
Excerpt:
The head of National Right to life says he’s not troubled by Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson’s opposition to federal legislation ending abortion, and therefore right-to-life activists across the U.S. should not be troubled as well.
The former Tennessee senator has drawn the consternation of some, but not all pro-life activists after saying that even though he believes life begins at conception, he would not support a federal constitutional amendment banning abortions. Thompson stated Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press: “I think people ought to be free at state and local levels to make decisions that even Fred Thompson disagrees with.” Earlier, the founder and president of the Texas-based pro-life group Life Dynamics said the GOP presidential candidate’s comments indicate that he is a “pro-life pretender.” In contrast, David Osteen, director of National Right to Life, says he does not have a problem with Thompson’s stance because a human life amendment has been a “long-term” goal of the pro-life movement.
“You would have to change 20 to 25 votes in the Senate,” says Osteen. “You’d have to replace 20 to 25 senators to pass an amendment even there. It takes two-thirds of both houses of Congress [and] three-fourths of the states to ratify [an amendment to the Constitutional], so it’s not practical to think that there would be a human life amendment passing Congress during the next presidential term — and of course, the president doesn’t have a vote.”
To use another comparison, the same way racial discrimination and `badges of slavery’ were fought: by using the Commerce Clause.
Any clinics accepting federal funding or involved in any way in interstate commerce cannot perform partial-birth abortions because they deprive the unborn of their lives.
Then your incrementalism, much like the gun-grabbers’ approach.
Another T. Jefferson quote:
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.”