[Diamond]

Where does the U.S. Constitution give the federal government the power to ban abortions? What’s sad is that this was never even at issue (whether the feds have the power in the first place)

The Fourteenth Amendment, properly understood, prohibits States from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; and denying to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

So, your question might be turned around: Where does the U.S. Constitution give the federal government the power to unleash anarchy and death upon whole class of persons by denying them the equal protection of the laws?

Cordially,

[AntiGuv]

Check out my post #206.

BTW, affirming the federal government's power to regulate abortion per se thereby affirms a central tenet of Roe v Wade. Without that power, Roe v Wade is effectively moot.

[goldstategop]

Exactly. Liberals of course deny the humanity of the unborn child. That is the only rational means to defend abortion. Once you concede the child is human, then the defense for abortion collapses - and its a defense based on legal sophistry, not on any coherent philosophical or moral underpinning. The closest liberals come to defending abortion on philosophical grounds is to assert the woman has control over her body and that what happens to it should be her personal decision - except that even liberals concede we do and have never had absolute control over our bodies anywhere at and at any time in history. In sum the real issue is: is there a positive argument to be made on behalf of abortion? I don't see and acknowledge one.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus