With greatest respect, two wrongs don’t make a right. Roe v. Wade is bad law and should be overturned, but that doesn’t justify more bad law. “The end justifies the means” is a very slippery slope indeed.
Orman ruse is over
Assuming that such federal legislation saves one baby per year or per month or per day and that any such legislation is only necessary because of the rank lawlessness of SCOTUS run amok and roughshod over the constitution that they are sworn to uphold, what is the moral justification for failure to act resulting in the preventable death of even ONE innocent?
How would you restrain the ongoing lawlessness of SCOTUS? Shall we just sit down, shut up and allow SCOTUS to destroy innocent babies? Shall we sacrifice THEIR lives on the altar of the Tenth Amendment by our failure to act?
The old saw as to whether "the end justifies the means" requires more than mere repetition. If Lenin justified the killing of innocent Russians because "to have an omelet, one must break eggs," Lenin's goal (his end as it were) was as immoral as his means of killing as many innocents as necessary or convenient to establishing the communist USSR. If he had advocated "liberating" the eggs produced by egg farmers to keep young children and their adults nourished and alive, the means would be immoral but the ends would be moral. If he accepted as a legitimate gift those same eggs from those same farmers and used them to nourish Red Army thugs, keeping up their strength to kill innocents for Lenin to consolidate soviet power: moral means, immoral ends.
If the end does not justify the means,just what the hell does? Specific circumstances require specific analysis. Some means are NEVER justified: abortion of a viable infant for example. Some ends are NEVER justified: abortion of a viable infant for example. Neither proposition is a slippery slope. The slippery slope is sitting around with one's thumb where the sun shineth not and saying: Don't blame me! I submit to SCOTUS on the law and put my morals in trust to do so. OR: Don't blame me! No matter how many innocent people die, I recognize the philosophical purity and abstraction of the Tenth Amendment as ruling over any and all other societal values.