Alan Keyes cares more about Sarah Palin than her supporters, obviously.
If they cared about her they would help respectfully correct her serious errors in understanding of the core principles of the country.
Either the unalienable rights to life and liberty are protected and secured for all, or those rights will be destroyed for us all. And we’re already far down that road.
Alan Keyes fairly drips with self-rightousness. Alan Keyes cares about Alan Keyes and therefore pays little attention to the veritable lumber yard in his own eye.
Roe overturned all STATE LAWS against abortion.
There were no FEDERAL laws concerning abortion, at that time.
Simply put, overturning Roe WOULD make abortion a State ISSUE once again.
Idiots like Keyes want a “Human Life Amendment” and virtually nothing else will satisfy them, even though such a process is probably impossible to pull off, successfully.
Except for making treason a crime, the Founding Fathers left it to the States to define what is and what isn’t a crime. The Founding Fathers did not make murder a federal crime.
The federal government has usurped most of the States’ powers but to this day there is no federal law against murder except in SPECIFIC cases like killing a federal government employee. It wasn’t even against federal law to kill the President until after Kennedy got killed. As of today there is no federal law against you killing me or me killing you.
The States vary greatly in defining when it is permissible to kill another person. In Texas you can kill someone you reasonably believe is a danger to your life. In New York you have to retreat until you are unable to retreat before killing him. States differ greatly on what is murder and what is manslaughter and degrees of each.
The Founding Fathers didn’t forget to make murder a federal crime. It was their intention to leave the general police powers and the criminal law writing to the states.
If no federal law protects a new born baby or a two-year-old or a sixty-year-old, why should one protect a pre-birth baby? If it’s not a federal offence to kill you, why should it be a federal offence to kill an unborn baby?
If you want a federal law defining when it is permissible to kill a person and when it’s a crime, should we use New York’s laws or Texas’ laws as the model? Is today’s crop of politicians more qualified than the Founding Fathers to decide what should be federal law?
The States should ban abortion. The federal government should go back to taking care of their enumerated responsibilities and go back to being restricted from taking more than their enumerated powers.