That’s right. As far as I can tell, abortion is a state matter, like it or not.
I used to think that the 5th or 9th Amendment covered protection of innocent human life, but I now interpret those amendments to mean that the Federal and, through the 14th Amendment, the state governments cannot perform or fund abortions. Therefore, planned parenthood is unconstitutional.
Furthermore, under Article I, Section 8 and the 10th Amendment, only state governments can outlaw abortion. If this country were sane enough to pass and ratify a Human Life Amendment, that could change, though.
What other unalienable rights besides the right to live do you feel this way about?
I have a different take. The right to life is guaranteed in our founding documents. No one has the right to deny life, either the federal, state or local government, nor any individual.
The Tenth Amendment talks about the powers that are reserved to the states and to the people.
There is no rightful, lawful, constitutional power to alienate unalienable God-given rights, by definition. For any individual or governmental entity.
This Stephen A. Douglas Democrat, Gerald R. Ford, Ron Paul, John McCain, Sarah Palin Republican “states’ rights trumps unalienable rights” position is destructive of this free republic’s most important foundational principles.