By voiding Roe v Wade, SCOTUS handed control of the issue back to the states. Republicans should be, and are, using that as an incentive to pass state legislation. But you're right: SCOTUS did not say that the Federal government must not have jurisdiction: they only said that the previous court's ruling setting national policy was void.
Republicans should be standing by the GOP's core constitutional position that states' rights take precedence, but the pro-life lobby is so shortsighted that they're insisting on trying to do exactly what the left did with Roe and set a national policy because they think the fact that they have control of Congress now means they always will.
For 40 years from 1954 to 1994, the Democrats had an uninterrupted majority in the House of Representatives. It's entirely possible that that could happen again, and the pro-life lobby wants to give Congress the power to supersede the states on the abortion issue?
By voiding Roe v Wade, SCOTUS handed control of the issue back to the states. Republicans should be, and are, using that as an incentive to pass state legislation. But you're right: SCOTUS did not say that the Federal government must not have jurisdiction: they only said that the previous court's ruling setting national policy was void.
Republicans should be standing by the GOP's core constitutional position that states' rights take precedence, but the pro-life lobby is so shortsighted that they're insisting on trying to do exactly what the left did with Roe and set a national policy because they think the fact that they have control of Congress now means they always will.
For 40 years from 1954 to 1994, the Democrats had an uninterrupted majority in the House of Representatives. It's entirely possible that that could happen again, and the pro-life lobby wants to give Congress the power to supersede the states on the abortion issue?
Fuck that.
I agree with dat. I think that's Trump's position.