XPost: alt.abortion, talk.politics.guns, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: noway@nowhere.com   
      
   On 9/9/2024 8:14 AM, Scout wrote:   
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   >   
   > "Attila"  wrote in message   
   > news:tb0ndjpk835idocj09k848slgf5ejoga9l@4ax.com...   
   >> On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 12:42:03 -0700, Josh Rosenbluth   
   >>  in alt.abortion with message-id   
   >>  wrote:   
      
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   >>>>> Also, Congress is permitted to enact legislation that takes the issue   
   >>>>> away from the states.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Under what law?   
   >>>   
   >>> Currently, partial-birth abortion is banned nationwide. Congress could   
   >>> choose to ban all abortions nationwide. Or, it could prevent any state   
   >>> from banning abortions.   
   >>   
   >> Not without a Constitutional Amendment.   
   >   
   > Not really, technically, all it would require would be enacting a   
   > federal law recognizing them as persons.. and then the 14th Amendment   
   > would kick in among others.   
      
   SCOTUS precluded Congress from defining the substance of the 14th   
   Amendment in City of Boerne v. Flores. Only the courts have the power to   
   define what a 14th Amendment "person" is.   
      
   And by the way Rudy, I think SCOTUS got it wrong. But, I am presenting   
   what the law is, not what I think it should be. And this ruling is "good   
   law" (settled) even though I think it was a bad decision.   
      
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