That was pretty stupid selective enforcement. Someone with an agenda was scouring the law books trying to find something to get her on, and they failed miserably.
How about just public indecency? They could have arrested her as indecent if she were nude, isn't that picture she was holding more indecent than her body? (I haven't seen her, so this could be debatable, but that's not the point)
"... this ruling wasn't going to change the nation's abortion laws,"..." People have to get this thought outta their heads, we are not one nation . We are a union of states. Each state having its own constitution. Each state sending representatives to the United States (i.e., the District of criminals Columbia).
If Michigan declares abortion to be murder (which it is) than the United States (I.E., District of Columbia) has no say in the matter.
This also holds true in all matters concerning state law. The Federal government has only those powers granted to it by the Constitution. The power structure goes something like this; God, man, local government, state government, Federal government. <.p> Note the Federal government has the least power of all, but it would seem as everything's been turned upside down and the Federal government has all the power and the people are but subjects and God is being tossed out of schools, court houses, etc.
This is not the way its supposed to be people.
Congress has no power whatsoever over each individual state except those which are specifically enumerated to it by the Federal Constitution;
"The congress shall have power--
- 1). To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts, and excises, shall be uniform thoughout the United States:
- 2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States:
- 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes:
- 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United S tates:
- 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures:
- 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States: 7. To establish post-offices and post-roads:
- 8. To promote the progress od science and useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries:
- 9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court: To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and offences against the law of nations:
- 10. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water:
- 11. To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to that use, shall be for a longer term than two years:
- 12. To provide and maintain a navy:
- 13. To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and navel forces:
- 14. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions:
- 15. To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States; reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by congress:
- 16. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district ( not exceeding ten miles square ) as may, by the cession of particular states, and the acceptance of congress, become the seat of government of the United States; and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings:-- and,
- 17. To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof."
Where does it say the Federal government (The United States) can tell a state what to do, unless the people consider an abortion mill to be a "needful building" ?
If the people believe an abortion mill is a "needful building" , then God help us all.