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America evenutally decided that preventing human lives from being regarded as chattel was worth a Constitutional Amendment (after about 600,000 lives, plus the lives and deaths of all the slaves, were spent on the matter).

America should also decide that preventing human lives from being prematurely ended is worth a Constitutional Amendment (after XX-million lives are spent on the matter).

Of course, the national document even more critical and foundational to our nation than the Constitution, declares our right to life, but that is being ignored.

The Constitution was developed by Us, the People. The People of the United States of America are the final earthly authority on the matter of our governance. The Constitution is our tool for arranging this; so it was designed and authored by Us.

Our principles of popular sovereignty might even require us some day to change the whole thing around, though that would be a shame. (But that's what Amendment II alludes to.) Amendment X is to be interpreted within the structure and perspective of all of the above.

Our principles of popular sovereignty might even require us some day to change the whole thing around, though that would be a shame. (But that's what Amendment II alludes to.) Amendment X is to be interpreted within the structure and perspective of all of the above.

The Declaration explicates this principle at length, too, BTW.

America should also decide that preventing human lives from being prematurely ended is worth a Constitutional Amendment (after XX-million lives are spent on the matter).

America has not decided that. America remains deeply divided partly because the nature of the problem serves no middle ground-it's a life or not-but also because the question was taken out of the people's hands. A constitutional amendment banning abortion is implausible, which makes the question a election gimmick, but if it happen it would bybass the role of the 13 states that didn't vote for it and disenfranchise anyone who wanted to change it in the future.

legally Prohibitting behavior is hard enough. If it were to occur in a way that bypassed the will of the people it would create disaster.