[Xeoncross]

It's interesting how conflated the federal government is with 'the people' while the state is assumed to be adversarial to the people.

This is what I was hinting at. The marketed solution to Americans is that local government is always bad and we need a single government entity to rule universally.

[tjnaylor]

The issue is Roe V Wade gave the federal government a negative power, not a positive one. The Fed government did not have the power to force or prevent people from getting abortions. The Fed government had the power to prevenet States from claiming the power rather than individuals regarding their choice to abortion.

By removing the federal governments negative power, the states have de facto been given a positive one to decide whether people receive abortions, rather than people deciding themselves if they will get abortions.

But the power to ban abortions has not been moved from the Federal government to States, because the Federal government never had that power to begin with.

Rather the power to decide to have an abortion has been moved from the individual to the state.

[rat87]

Because that is the common case in our nations history especially with civil rights, leaving it up to the states lets bad state governments infringe on their citizens rights