What gives Congress the right to regulate it?
Nothing in the Constitution.
Note that (as with Roe v. Wade), one’s position on abortion is, or at least should be, irrelevant to whether Congress (or SCOTUS) has the power to declare it either legal or illegal. It’s about process, not outcome. But too many from both sides of the aisle (as we saw with ObamaCare) don’t give a damn about process if they get the outcome they want.
Which is how we ended up with Roe v. Wade. Blackmun should have been impeached.
Abortion is murder. Species that allow, much less promote abortion, will die. White western civilization will end in a few decades. Our enemies have convinced us to commit suicide.
From Vox Day:
“To defend civilization, it is necessary for men and women to take the risks that modern society places upon us. Yes, there is risk of divorce. Yes, there is risk of missing out on something, whatever that something might be. But in the end, if even those who are civilizationists give in to the temptations and whispered promises of safety offered by modern society, civilization will fall.
“It will most likely fall anyhow. But the important thing is to provide, like the monks of an earlier civilizational decline, a means of preserving that which will permit civilization to rise again.
“The risk is worth it, because there is more to life than maximizing your number of sexual encounters and your bank account. So take the risk. Marry. Have children. Teach them right from wrong. And raise up a new generation that is not only civilized, but capable of defending the remnants of civilization.” VD
The short version:
“Demographics is destiny. To win the future your children need to show up.” Vox Day
Abortion is murder.
That may or may not be true, but it is irrelevant. That does not make it a purview of the federal government. It is a matter for the states. The Founders did not intend for the federal government to prosecute for murder.
I get your point now and agree. But that would mean that no murder charge could be federal?
I’m not familiar with Federal law on this issue so maybe some murders are covered, such as Judges and elected officials. I believe any murder on federal property, i.e. BLM and Indian Reservations, Military Bases would be covered as federal murder crimes. OK.
Abortion on federal property would follow as a federal issue.
Jerry Pournelle once asked Newt Gingrich why Congress could regulate drugs when it took a constitutional amendment to outlaw alcoholic beverages at the federal level. Newt had no answer.
White western civilization will end in a few decades. Our enemies have convinced us to commit suicide.
Do you spend a lot of time worrying about the future of ‘white western civilization’?
Yes. Yes I do.
Western Civilization (Old White Dead Guys) have brought us 500 years of relative freedom, peace and prosperity. Yes, some bumps along the way. But as compared to other ideas it works pretty well. Better than any others.
I have a daughter and two grand kids and I hope they survive the coming war/wars. The daughter, unfortunately is left of Elizabeth Warren.
We are well into the last two stages:
“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”
“What gives Congress the right to regulate it?
Nothing in the Constitution.”
Are we even bothering with the Constitution these days? As Dave can tell you, it’s a product of white Western civilization.
Nothing in the Constitution.
We still have one?
I think I’ll go with what my dad told me when I was in high school. “Sounds like that is a decision between a woman and her God. Not a woman and the US federal government.”
1. Congress has the power to protect the rights of born or naturalized citizens that state governments are discriminating against.
2. Congress has the power to naturalize.
In other words, Congress can naturalize all fetuses and then protect them when a state government protects born citizens but not unborn citizens.