Nobel Idea Congressman Long, But Abortion Should Really be a States' Rights Issue

In recent days, Billy Long has showed up on the Washington circuit as a pro-life champion. He was even seen with real Constitutional conservative Michele Bachmann, who I didn't know shared the stage with RINOs like Long, telling about how his jaw dropped the first time in high school he was told what an abortion was, a story I am not buying as it songs like more of the embellishing tales Long is famous for.



While Long's new pro-life campaign is noble, this is one of those issues that I can't find any Constitutional enumerated power for Congress to debate and pass legislation on--pro and con on abortion. Long is co-sponsoring a new anti-abortion bill in Congress. His liberal opponents are jumping on his case claiming Long is attempting to redefine rape. I don't know about that, but I want to know where the federal government has any right to legislate any of this. Pull out that pocket Constitution that is rode hard and put up wet Mr. Long and tell me where you have the authority as a Congressman to co-sponsor a bill of this sort even though it's a noble attempt.

This is the problem in Washington DC. Too many Congressman like Billy Long go to Washington and ignore the Constitution while claiming they are following it. Abortion is a states' rights issue, and if Congressman Long and the Republicans would return power back to the states, it would be a real asset in overturning Roe V. Wade once and for all. Each state would have the right, as given in the Constitution to determine whether or not abortion is right for that state. After all, Mr. Long, the Tenth Amendment reads:

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.

I am as staunch pro-life as they come. I am smart enough to realize as long as politicians in Washington overstep the boundaries of the power they are given in Article One Section Eight, federal politicians will continue to keep the country divided on abortion and nothing will get done.

Is Mr. Long right that taxpayers shouldn't fund abortions, absolutely he is. He should be fighting to turn abortion laws back to the states first and foremost, and I haven't seen anything in HR3 that suggest that's coming. Each state should have the right under the Tenth Amendment to decide whether or not abortion is legal in their state, and the Supreme Court's ruling of Roe V. Wade should be ruled unconstitutional since the Constitution gives the federal government no power to regulate abortion laws.