I would like to outline a couple of facts regarding abortion, then end with a comment and question.
First, abortion will always be regulated by the government in some form or another as it is a medical procedure, and the practice of medicine is regulated.
Secondly, given the high priority of States rights the founders envisioned, I believe the U.S. Supreme Court should not have ruled on abortion based on the powers given them. I believe they overstepped their bounds, and should have known this. Abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution, so by edict of the 10th amendment, the regulatory power for this lies with each individual State. Here is the text:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Our founders did not envision a huge central government with unlimited power, so for this reason, they were very adamant about limiting it. Constitutionally, the individual States can rule on abortion, but the federal government cannot. So why have the feds taken upon themselves this State's right power? That is another topic for another day!
Thirdly, should the individual States allow abortion? This is a question each of them must address. I know the opinions and reasons are many on both side, so I will simply end with this:
In the Old Testament, the Lord said to Jeremiah "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." Jeremiah 1:5.
If the Lord knew Jeremiah before he was formed in the womb, one might ask the question, "What then, really is an abortion? What is being killed? William Wordsworth addressed this in him poem, "Ode - Intimations of Immortality;"
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:... The Soul that rises with us... Hath elsewhere its setting,... But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home:"
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