Every officer of the United States swears an oath to protect and defend the Constitution: a document that lays down at its beginning its ultimate purpose...the securing of the Blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
The right to life is the preeminent right. Without it, all other rights become meaningless.
Murder, aka the taking of an innocent human life, is an abrogation of our Constitution and is a violation of the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments.
This “states’ rights trumps the right to life” lie is destructive of the very premises of the moral, legal and political arguments that are necessary to the permanent end of the abortion holocaust in America.
Under the 9th and 10 amendments, all authority over matters not specifically addressed in the Constitution remains with state legislatures. Therefore the federal government has no authority whatsoever to involve itself in the abortion issue. So while Roe v. Wade is invalid, a federal law banning abortion across all 50 states would be equally invalid.Ron Paul, imho, is correct in the reading of the Consitution. He is pro-life and is against abortion. But the reading of the Constitution is clear: it is against the Constitution to involve itself in those things which are NOT in the Constitution. Acts of abortion (or even acts which end up aborting a child...such as other acts of violence committed against the mother through, say, punching her causing an interruption (abortion) in the pregnancy), is also a matter left to the states, as it should be.