The right to life for every person is the preeminent unalienable right. Which lesser rights do you now want the states to decide? Slavery? The RTKBA? Free speech? Assembly? What?
Except in certain specific cases like murder of a federal employee, there is no federal law against murder. You can kill me today and face no federal charge.
While I’m firmly pro-life, I’m more firmly pro-Constitution. As such, I have to come down on the States Rights side of this. The Constitution doesn’t specifically give the federal government the right to outlaw murder before or after birth, so it is a States’ Right per the Tenth Amendment.
I can accept your definition and position. I’m not supporting either side yet because I see merits of both. That’s exactly why I support opening this up to debate and analysis.
The person who said 30 years is wrong. We have spent forty, or closer to fifty years working on educating voters on this issue. That effort has to continue even though we have a majority now, which we did not have before, opposing abortions.
One of the most persuasive comments I have ever heard came from Kathy Ireland, of all people. She said “you prove to me that life does not begin at conception and I will reconsider my opposition to abortion.” It’s too bad politicians cannot be that clear in their arguments.
Answer this question - when a person murders another, which laws is he tried under - federal or state ?
Why is abortion any different ?