Earlier this year, I pointed out that former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was right when he said that abortion laws should be left to the states. In Trump’s defense, I maintained that pro-lifers who criticized him were enemies of the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, and the American system of government.
Trump has now gotten it right again on the subject of abortion, and I am doubling down on my description of pro-lifers.
It has been widely reported that Senator J. D. Vance said last month that Trump would veto a national ban on abortion were Congress to enact one, and implied that he would veto even a ban on abortions late in pregnancy.
Back in April, Trump himself said that he would not sign a federal abortion ban. This upset Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, who called Trump’s statement a “slap in the face” to “millions of pro-life Americans” who voted for Trump.
Trump has also controversially said that he would not enforce existing federal law against the interstate mail delivery of abortion pills, even going so far to say that “the federal should have nothing to do with this issue.”
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, blasted Trump: “It is not a pro-life position, it’s not an acceptable position, and it does not provide the contrast on this issue to the degree that we have had in the past between him and Kamala Harris.”
Most pro-lifers are hypocrites. They screamed for decades that Roe v. Wade should be repealed, but now that that has happened, because they were unable to get tougher abortion laws passed in blue states and have had stricter abortion laws challenged in red states, they are clamoring for a federal ban on abortions, either outright or between 6 and 15 weeks.
Regardless of how one feels about abortion—and I am on record as a strong opponent of abortion—pro-lifers who support a national ban on abortion, late-term abortion, or abortion pills are enemies of America who are woefully or willingly ignorant of the American federal system of government under the Constitution.
I make no apologies for constantly quoting James Madison, the “father of the Constitution,” who wrote in Federalist No. 45:
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will for the most part be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties and properties of the people; and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
Congress has no business passing any law, regulation, or restriction that has anything to do with abortion. And any laws, regulations, or restrictions that Congress does pass concerning abortion should be vetoed by whomever is the president.
Conservatives can’t choose to believe in federalism just when it suits them.
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