In answer to your question - I think abortion should be prohibited by the 14th Amendments provision which says that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.” I would support legislation by Congress and the President to clarify that the unborn are persons for the purposes of the 14th Amendment. Alternatively, I would support a human life Amendment to the Constitution. I support other federal restrictions but admit that Congress may not have the power to pass them if they do not come in the form of Constitutional Amendments or fall under the grant of power given to congress to enforce the provisions of the 14th Amendment.
“I think abortion should be prohibited by the 14th Amendments provision which says that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”
In other words you are for expanding the power of the federal govt to decide what life is. Careful what you wish wish for.
“I would support legislation by Congress and the President to clarify that the unborn are persons for the purposes of the 14th Amendment.”
Ok, so you found your loophole to grant the federal gov’t the power to decide what is alive or not alive. Again, be careful what you wish for. Once you give them that, what is deserving of life and what is not? What is human? What is life? Are there classifications of humanity? Anyway what I am saying is that its important not to give that power to the federal government.
Alternatively, I would support a human life Amendment to the Constitution.
I am ok with constitutional amendments. It wont ever happen in my lifetime but if it did come up for a vote I’d vote againts it. The founders of this federalist goverment left out such issues as abortion with the 10th amendment in the bill of rights. That all laws not specifically granted by the constitution are left to the people and the states. They did this becauce they knew that beyond the general running of government the myriad issues such as abortion that enflame a democratic society should be solved at a state level. Let the states be the petri dishes for governmental policy. This, in my opinion, is the only way to run a 300 million population country. Or would you just impose your beliefs on people that you have never met, never will meet and live in places you will never go to?