You either have to believe in the 10th Amendment or you don’t…You can’t believe in the 10th Amendment for a few issues and then [for] something that doesn’t suit you say, ‘We’d rather not have states decide that.’
~ Texas governor and possible presidential candidate Rick Perry explaining how “if Roe v. Wade was overturned, it should be up to the states to decide the legality of the procedure”, ABC News, July 27
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Tenth Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Roe v. Wade has always been in violation of this.
You either have a God given, inalienable right to life or you don’t. No state has the “right” to
ignore their duty to legally protect their tiniest citizens.
“The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the chief and only legitimate object of good government.” Thomas Jefferson
The Fourteenth Amendment states:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
We want Perry to respect the personhood of the pre-born.
We all want to respect the authority of States, but States are not permitted to remove the basic human rights of any person without due process of the Law. As the Tenth Amendment says: this power is prohibited to the States by the Constitution.
If a state can legalize abortion-on-demand, then a state can legalize lynching Blacks or rounding Jews into concentration camps.
Prior to Roe V Wade, abortion laws were subject to the police powers of the State, that is, the criminal law. State criminal laws, whether by statute or common law, regulated behavior that harmed other people. When the pro-abortion industry and their minions claimed that state abortion laws “violated” the constitutional rights of women, their claims moved the matter the the federal landscape. The application of the Equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment, combined with the direct references in both the 5th and 14th amendments to “due process of law,” now require a “federal” solution to the abortion issue. This solution must be ultimately a universal legal (state and federal) recognition and respect for the humanity of the unborn child. Nothing else will end this nightmare that curses the land.
None of this forecloses efforts at both the state and federal level to effect this reality. However, the populace must elect pro-life candidates willing to act out their pro-life principles. Lip service is not enough anymore.
“it should be up to the states to decide the legality of the procedure” – yeah, until he realises that not all states will join the ‘agenda’, then the pressure would be back on the federal government to intervene.
until he realises that not all states will join the ‘agenda’
uh, he realizes that.