Senate Republicans vs. Federalism and the Constitution
September 15, 2022
After insisting that abortion should be left up to the states, now some Senate Republicans, led by Lindsey Graham, are pushing a bill to enact a federal ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. As much as I am pro-life and against abortion, I must vehemently object to this bill. Although abortion is a heinous practice, the federal government should have no more to do with abortion than it should have anything to do with the violent crimes of armed robbery, rape, murder, assault and battery, child abuse, manslaughter, and domestic violence. And neither should the federal government have the authority to regulate or restrict state abortion laws—unless you reject federalism and the Constitution.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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