[weegee]

While abortion may be a state's right, it shields the same sort of human rights violation as slavery and should be dealt with through a Constitutional amendment.

The child's rights are entirely infringed upon by the mother. Her rights do not supersede the rights of the child. The father does not "host" the child but is found under the law to be financially obligated to that child.

Abortion is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Suicide is as well (especially when the dead subject is not suffering anything more terminal than life itself).

They are also both selfish acts.

Are we to pretend that the child did not really exist and that the pregnancy "didn't count"? Should we also pretend that the suicide victim never really existed?

Would Terry Schivo's husband have been able to off his wife sooner as her legal guardian?

What if someone is a ward of the state? Who will look out for the victim's "best interest"?

All depends on what a "quality life" is I suppose. For me, it is all wrong, "quality" has nothing to do with it. Distinctions as to who should live and who should die (in the absence of death being a penalty for offenses committed towards others) are dangerous territory to tread.

[arthurus]

That all goes along with what I said. If you make it a part of the Constitution then it is, indeed, a federal question. Until that point it is not the proper concern of the federal courts.
If you would federalize everything you think is wrong then you might as well get rid of those pesky state governments altogether and turn it all over to the Nine Man Oligarchy.