I interpret the 5th and 14th Amendments to prohibit the Federal and State governments from taking innocent life, or funding that activity. Unfortunately, the states still have to do the heavy lifting to outlaw abortion (a crime committed by private individuals), because the Feds do not have that specific power. They’re merely prohibited from taking that life themselves, or funding such activities.
According to the founders, the very reason for the existence of government, ALL government, is to protect the God-given, unalienable rights of the people. All the people. Equally.
You’re just plain wrong. The Fourteenth Amendment made the imperative duty of the states in this regard explicit.
Let me put this a different way:
If my position prevails, all innocent human beings, from their creation, their biological inception, until natural death, will be protected from being killed, on every square inch of American soil. The highest ideal of the American founding will bear sway. Our Constitution, all of our laws, and the entire power of government in this country will protect the child, or the sick, or the aged, or whomever.
If the Gerald R. Ford, Ron Paul, John McCain, Sarah Palin, pro-choice for states position were to prevail, the only thing protecting the child would be travel inconvenience. Think about it.
Not that the latter position would ever win anyhow, since it gives up every decent moral, philosophical, constitutional, and legal argument that might “overturn Roe,” or convince the officers of the other branches of government to act forcefully in defense of innocent human life.