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The prolife movement has been sold a fake antidote to Roe v Wade for 35 years. A so-called 'Human Life Amendment' is a dead-end. In my opinion, there are three better avenues to pursue:
- No president need enforce any supreme court decision
- Congress can remove the courts from jurisdiction as per Article III, Section 2;
- and states ought to defy Roe v Wade, as some states are about to do.
Principled Libertarians who might favor abortion-rights could still accept this because, as such, they ought to see the tyranny of judicial activism.
A "Human Life Amendment" to the Constitution attempts to redress the injustice of legal abortion. But the 19th century physicians, whose laws were struck down in 1973, understood that the first guardian of human life and property should always be your own home state, not a federal Big Brother.
The 14th amendment supposedly guarantees every person the right to life, yet it is this very amendment that the supreme court cited to bring us abortion-on-demand, proving that Constitutional amendments are useless.
There is nothing that requires the president to enforce court decisions . . . the chief executive has all the powers of enforcement. In addition, Congress has the power to remove the courts from any type of case it chooses. You can look it up.
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