Well now, don't get me wrong. I'd love to see abortion outlawed completely, though I am sensible enough to realise that this will probably never happen, at least in my lifetime.
If we repealed Roe v. Wade, that would be a good start. Throw it back to the states, and I can see half of them outlawing it, or making it so blithering difficult to obtain that it would be almost non-existent. That would save hundreds of thousands of lives a year, right there - the federalism way.
“...That would save hundreds of thousands of lives a year, right there - the federalism way. ...”
If we want to return to true conservative principles, then we we must stop insisting that the federal govt solve these problems and let the states deal with them.
We cannot both strive for a small government while giving it more authority.
Trying to pass any type of federal law that -restricts- any rights of any citizen is misguided and wrong-headed. If those laws ought to be, they need to be with the states.
I am not alone in this view.
Also, the more “constitutional” republican/conservatives become, the less of a threat we are to the personal liberties of other citizens, and it takes the fire out of the opposition, because we would no longer be setting the fed on them whenever they do something we don’t like.
That makes federalists more electable, and I think this was a factor with Scott Brown. But I am still learning who he is.