The Constitution specifies only three federal crimes-treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. So whether you think performing OR preventing an abortion is a crime – it’s still something that the federal government is not authorized to deal with.
State Constitutions in California, Connecticut and elsewhere have a greater protection for the ability to have an abortion than the federal government does.
And recently, a group in Nevada filed an initiative petition “that seeks to define a person and override Nevada’s abortion laws.”
The Nevada “personhood” initiative would amend the state constitution by defining a person and extend due process rights to “everyone possessing a human genome” from the beginning of biological development through end of life.
Obviously, this is a very sensitive and heated issue in our society – but the Founders and Ratifiers recognized that there would always be divisive issues in any country. That’s why they gave us a federal system where issues like this would be handled close to home – where laws and regulations best match the interests of the people living there.
Michael Boldin [send him email] is the founder of the Tenth Amendment Center. He was raised in Milwaukee, WI, and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. Follow him on twitter - @michaelboldin, on LinkedIn, and on Facebook.
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The problem with laws like this is that they often aren't very well thought out and usually have numerous unintended consequences.
Women tend to miscarry about half the time, often without realizing it. Will that now be a crime?
When we say on this that "greater protection for the ability to have an abortion than the federal government does.." i really don't agree on this..Abortion is crime, also the government have no authorization to deal with it..
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