Abortion is an issue at the national level, the state level, the local level, the medical board level, the medical school level, the school board level, it is an all front war.
We pursue national laws and state laws at the same time, we fight on multiple fronts and take territory where we can.
Mitt has suddenly discovered “states rights” because it covers him for all of his radical leftism on homosexual “marriage”, being radically anti-second amendment, abortion, Romneycare, I don’t know how he works it into his pushing to homosexualize the Boy Scouts though.
Mitt will say anything to get elected and he NOW knows that most Republicans dont care what he says now, they just want O gone. So he almost has a blank check by the R side.
Regardless I dont want Federal laws dictating abortion to the states, homosexuality, anymore than I want them dictating election laws or education laws. That is the states job,
I dont want to replace a Dem King with a R king.
Overturning Roe, defending DOMA, cutting abortion funding. etc is the role the Feds should play. I seem to remember Palin saying the same thing in 2008. Romney said the same thing as now in the primary, overturn Roe.
I dont see any future R POTUS nominee running on outlawing abortion at the Federal level anyway. They all seem to have trouble explaining over-turning Roe to average voters.