Federal Control of Abortion Laws Is Modern Colonialism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% :This is a cunning trick that has been employed in many contexts other than abortion.
46% : It is necessary to show that maintaining the legality of abortion trumps other considerations.
44% : Similarly, in The Nation, Atima Omara opines that Democrats in Congress and the White House must do "whatever it takes" to guarantee the legal status of abortion nationwide.
43% : Many make legal arguments and claim that a proper interpretation of the U.S. Constitution mandates federal control over abortion.
38% : State and local policymakers are generally responsible for lawmaking in many other areas considered to be life or death issues -- such as violent crime and the death penalty.
38% : Moreover, as Ruth Marcus wrote in the Washington Post last June, allowing states to make their own laws on abortion "would empower them to be agents of oppression."
28% : Yet, at the core of these arguments is usually a moral claim: that legal limits on abortion are so morally wrong as to justify federal intervention regardless of concerns over federalism or local control.

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