[EternalVigilance]

And there is no legitimate power of the federal government to enforce that.

No legitimate power to accomplish what the founders said was the reason governments exist? That doesn't make sense.

"That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."

[tacticalogic]

The national governemt is one of limited and enumerated powers. All the powers of the federal government are enumerated in the Constitution. Where is that power enumerated?

The 14th Amendment was ratified over 140 years ago. If that amendment was understood and intended to outlaw the practice of abortion and the power to enforce that prohibition given to the national government by the States, it would have been outlawed then, and enforcement procedures established.

[tacticalogic]

No legitimate power to accomplish what the founders said was the reason governments exist? That doesn't make sense.

Of course it doesn't make sense. You've left out the qualification of it being a power granted to the national government, and then tried to make it appear I'm arguing that NO government has the authority.

Are they paying you to help destroy the idea that we are a republic, and that the state governments can exercise their authority, or did you decide you just don't like the idea of a republic?