[Georgia Girl 2]

The Constitution is about law and the powers of the Federal and State governments to make law and regulate. It does not attempt to prove or disprove the existence of anything. You have no argument with this line of reasoning.

Powers that are not “expressly” assigned to the federal govt fall to the states. The Constitution does not “expressly” assign the power to determine the legality of abortion or marriage to the US govt so it falls to the individual states. You should agree with this because right now the Federal govt is controlling both abortion and gay marriage and guess what they are both legal in all 50 states. So you can rage on about it all day long but it would still be better if even half the states could reject these two abominations.

[EternalVigilance]

The Constitution does not “expressly” assign the power to determine the legality of abortion or marriage to the US govt so it falls to the individual states.

Both the federal and state governments not only have the power to equally protect innocent human life, they both have the absolute duty to do so. It's the very reason that those governments exist in the first place. It is their raison d'etre.

This is the first principle of the repubic, as spelled out in our national charter.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."

[BillyBoy]

>> So you can rage on about it all day long but it would still be better if even half the states could reject these two abominations. <<

That's right, Mr. Lincoln. The right of human beings to own and enslave other human beings as their personal property is clearly 100% up to the states, and the federal government and everyone else for that matter has absolutely no say in the matter. Whether people are property is a state issue. You going on about abstract theories of morality or invoking God won't change that. So you think its morally wrong, good for you, you should be glad ONLY 50% of the states allow human beings to be sold as property. 100% of them would do that if the slave owners let this get decided at a national level. Is that what you want? Isn't freeing people in 50% of the states better than NONE, Mr. Lincoln?