I wasn't aware that murder should be a 'states rights issue', perhaps we should ask our resident Constitutional scholar MrDante to weigh in on this?
Marriage Equality ‘Settled’ but Abortion Isn’t: Trump Contradicts on ‘60 Minutes’
11-14-16
In an interview on Sunday night with CBS News’ 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, Donald Trump discussed reproductive rights explicitly for the first time since being elected the 45th president of the United States.
In reply to Stahl’s question about whether he will follow through on his campaign promise to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling by the Court that made abortion legal — and the right to abortion care access a constitutionally protected right — on a federal level,
Trump replied that his appointees would, in fact, be “pro-life” and that “if [Roe] were overturned, it would go back to the states.”Stahl followed up by clarifying that if this chain of events were to happen, “some women won’t be able to get an abortion,” to which Trump eventually conceded that, should Roe be overturned and abortion access be legally defined by each individual state in the U.S., women will “perhaps have to go, they’ll have to go to another state.”
“And that’s OK?” Stahl asked. “Well, we’ll see what happens,” Trump replied. “It’s got a long way to go.”
But later in the interview, Stahl asked Trump about whether he supported marriage equality.
The president-elect answered, “It’s irrelevant because it was already settled. It’s law. It was settled in the Supreme Court. I mean it’s done,” thus setting up an odd logical paradigm by which some things previously addressed by the Supreme Court, like abortion access, are left open to challenge while other things, like marriage equality, are defined as resolved because of a previous Supreme Court ruling.
“Obviously, Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land for over forty years,” Brigitte Amiri, a senior staff attorney in the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Reproductive Freedom Project. “In that case, the Supreme Court declared that the right to abortion is a fundamental constitutional right. Lower courts have chipped away at this right, but the Supreme Court has upheld that abortion is a core constitutional right in other landmark cases like Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992 and Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstadt just this past June. It’s baffling, to say the least, that there’s any distinction between those rulings that establish the constitutional right to abortion and Obergefell v. Hodges, which upholds marriage equality.”
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Let me help you with your confusion Donald:
The reason Roe v Wade is unconstitutional is because it violates the Due Process Clause in both the 5th and 14th Amendments. One state cannot make abortion legal and another illegal as you suggest. In order for a woman to have an abortion she must first prove beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law that her life would be endangered if she was to carry the pregnancy to full term (thank you Senator Ted Cruz and the late Anton Scalia for that bit of wisdom).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Regarding 'marriage equality': While our Founding Fathers detested homosexual acts and didn't write the Constitution for anyone other than a moral and religious people, both Lawrence v Texas and Obergefell v Hodges are unconstitutional because there is nowhere in any founding documents where it says that people have some kind of 'right' to engage in immoral behavior. The issue of homosexuality should be returned to the respective states to make those decisions on their own (and the federal government should not bail these states out after they realize that things like free HIV/AIDS drugs is bankrupting their state).
http://image.slidesharecdn.com/due-process-1226884024861937-8/95/due-process-2-728.jpg?cb=1226855245
http://image.slidesharecdn.com/due-process-1226884024861937-8/95/due-process-2-728.jpg?cb=1226855245