Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s potential overturning of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) was leaked in the early days of last month, abortion enthusiasts and radical activists have become completely unhinged, threatening a "summer of rage" should the high court follow through with its plans to overrule the infamous case.
But as the entire nation hyperventilates and reason is lost in and on the madness of the pro-abortion rights crowd, it’s important that we, collectively, take a moment, step back and consider the consequences of rescinding this landmark decision.
The Roe ruling was one of the greatest moral, political, and constitutional failures in American history. Overturning it actually presents us with a unique opportunity to make right many of the wrongs of the past five decades.
The decision was always bad law, constitutionally speaking, and of course, it’s morally abhorrent, but it also dealt serious blows to our system of governance and the precarious balance between federal jurisdiction and state authority.
Federalism has always been an essential part of who we are as a nation.
Today, more than ever, as we drift further and further apart, breaking into factions at an alarming rate, we need federalism to hold us together.
The Founding Fathers knew Americans wouldn’t necessarily like each other.
They knew we’d always have irreconcilable differences.
This is exactly why we need Federalism.
The Founding Fathers believed a functioning federal government would require some power, of course, but only enough to carry out a few, enumerated tasks that the entire country could agree would be of national benefit.
Anything beyond this, issues on which Americans would have wildly diverse opinions, would be worked out at the state level.
This delicate dichotomy between state and federal authority occasionally came out of balance at various points throughout our history, but especially in the early 1900s with the advent of the so-called Progressive Era.
Decades later, when nine robed justices federalized an issue that states wanted to work out on their own, the problem was exacerbated.
By unilaterally inventing and imposing the purportedly constitutional, yet previously undiscovered "right to abortion" on the entire country, they created a permanent conflict–a permanent point of contention between all Americans from the reddest to the deepest blue states.
Now that Roe’s downfall seems probable, we have the opportunity not only to fight against the egregious sin of abortion to a greater extent on the state level but also to make tremendous strides towards restoring our system of governance so that it is truly representative of the federalism the Framers intended for us when they drafted and ratified our Constitution.
If states such as Alabama, Arizona, Florida, or Texas, for example, want to ban abortion, then the far-left politics of California, New York, or Massachusetts should not be allowed to hold them back from that.
Many states already have "trigger" bans on the books, meaning abortions would be completely or largely banned in those states, should the Suprem Court's prospective ruling become reality.
Some have estimated that as many as 27 states would outlaw the heinous practice altogether in the absence of Roe.
This is why state individualism, at least for now, is a massive win for the anti-abortion movement.
Of course, some correctly point out that abortion isn’t merely a state’s issue and that it does, in fact, warrant a national ban. But until our fellow Americans grasp the truth, and we see an overwhelming, national consensus that abortion at any stage is the murder of a human being, this issue must be fought out at the state level.
The fact that at least 27 states stand in opposition to, yet must comply with the decades-old ruling of an unelected body of judicial activists, should be proof enough that our Founding Fathers were right to give us a federalist system of government — and that it was a monumental catastrophe to stray away from it.
It also explains why the left has fallen into such frenzied madness in the anticipation of Roe’s final demise.
Not only do they fear losing their "sacred" "reproductive rights," but they also fear that this ruling may be part of a broader trend toward taking power away from the federal government and returning it to the states.
If this, the left’s worst nightmare, comes true, then the future of both the anti-abortion movement and federalism in this country looks promising, indeed.
Mark Meckler is president of Convention of States. Read Mark Meckler's Reports — More Here.
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