The biggest lie roiling the election is Vice President Kamala Harris’ claim that former President Donald Trump will ban abortion nationwide.
Abortion rights do not hinge on who is elected president, nor on which party controls Congress. The issue is out of their hands. Wherever you live, the state legislators elected in your own state will determine your abortion rights. That is what the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2022, when it overturned Roe v. Wade.
As a pro-choice woman, I understand some voters are putting aside concerns about inflation, the border, foreign policy and other issues out of fear they or their daughters won’t have freedom of choice. They deserve the truth, but they’re not getting it.
At a rally in Houston on Friday with rock star Beyonce, Harris pumped up the fear, telling blue-state and swing-state women voters that “if you think you are protected from a Trump abortion ban because you live in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York or California, please know no one is protected.”
That’s 100% false. But instead of fact-checking, the liberal media are letting that lie do its dirty work, frightening women to vote for Harris.
Trump has vowed to veto a national ban on abortion. But you don’t have to rely on his word.
The U.S. Constitution sets up dual powers, where the states have authority over the health and welfare of residents, and the federal government has only limited, enumerated powers, such as levying taxes and regulating interstate commerce but not regulating most health care matters.
Any effort by Congress to ban abortions would likely be overturned by the courts. That includes Sen. Lindsay Graham’s Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would make it a crime to abort a fetus after 20 weeks.
Likewise for the Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022, which would guarantee access to abortion, preempting state laws to the contrary. This bill goes so far beyond Congress’ enumerated powers that its authors omitted the “findings” section where they’re supposed to describe Congress’ authority to pass it. There is none.
Same is true for Harris’ pledge to codify Roe v. Wade. That’s unlikely to fly, short of a constitutional amendment.
In 1905, when a Cambridge, Massachusetts, man challenged a local smallpox vaccine requirement, the Supreme Court ruled that states could require residents to be vaccinated. But the court never has recognized a federal power to do so, even during COVID-19. Vaccination laws vary from state to state, just like abortion laws.
At one time the court allowed Congress to stretch the meaning of the Commerce Clause like a rubber band to authorize federal meddling into virtually anything. No more. In a string of rulings, the court reversed that.
Then in 2007, the court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Act, not based on Congress’ commerce power but only on Roe v. Wade, a ruling now overturned.
In 2012, when the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, the majority relied on Congress’ taxing power and expressly repudiated the idea that the Commerce Clause could be used as the basis for health legislation.
No surprise, then, that in 2022 when the court struck down Roe v. Wade, it entrusted abortion to the voters of each state, not Congress.
Pro-choice voters need to know action on reproductive rights has shifted from Washington, D.C., to the state capitols. Ten states have abortion measures on the ballot this November. It’s possible to support increasing access to abortion procedures, like Florida’s measure does, and still vote for Trump.
The next battle is over abortion pills, or mifepristone, which now account for 63% of terminated pregnancies, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Fourteen states ban it, and three of these states — Missouri, Kansas and Idaho — are suing the Federal Drug Administration to make it harder for women to self-abort. Trump said “the federal government should have nothing to do with this issue,” infuriating pro-lifers but staying true to the idea that state voters will decide.
That’s the legal reality. Instead of hanging with Beyonce, Harris should take a refresher course on the U.S. Constitution and drop the scare tactics.
Betsy McCaughey is a former Lt. Governor of New York and co-founder of the Committee to Save Our City at saveourcityny.org. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey. To find out more about Betsy McCaughey and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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ONE OF The biggest lie roiling the election is Vice President Kamala Harris’ claim that former President Donald Trump will ban abortion nationwide.
Abortion rights do not hinge on who is elected president, nor on which party controls Congress. The issue is out of their hands. Wherever you live, the state legislators elected in your own state will determine your abortion rights. That is what the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2022, when it overturned Roe v. Wade.
The lies, cons, deceptions, hypocrisy, and treachery of this destructive, corrupt, treasonous, hateful demonic Democrat Party cabal and their idiot puppet the self-serving, lying Chameleon Harris know no bounds. This treasonous Democrat Party and its “useful idiot” supporters will do or say Anything to be able to dictate control, then access power and retain it by any means available. No matter the costs to the people, the government, or the nation.
Exactly what fundamental right or human right gives a woman the right to murder her unborn baby?
What about the Baby’s fundamental rights or human rights?
A woman’s body ends at the end of the baby’s umbilical cord and that is where the baby’s body begins. It is not the woman’s body that they are killing; it is the baby’s body!!
If legally life ends when the heartbeat stops, shouldn’t life legally begin when the heartbeat starts??
Kamala,= Commie Law ,,,where secular socialists, like ALL people created in the image of the great CREATOR, get deceived and socially reshaped into living in the image of the great Consumer, the father of all lies where good is bad, bad is good, death is life, life is death, and killing the very child that defines a family is not only oxymoronically called “Family Planning” but no longer called what it really is,,,Murder of American innocence in the womb to blanket the mistakes of the guilty.
The freedom to be an American King/Queen in one’s own castle used to define what American Democracy was all about, but Kamala Commie law ditto copies of humanity would beguile Americans to take this to an all new level of insanity where we can all become gods in our own heavenly socially evil harvested gardens of Evil,,, up to the point where the forbidden fruit is eaten, and the scales fall off our eyes, we be become bedazzled that one woman’s freedom to make decisions about her body, warps into becoming license to murder an innocent unborn who she claims has no rights, who did not ask to be placed inside that woman’s body, but got unwittily and unwantedly dragged inside her like a prisoner in a call, condemned to an unearned often excruciatingly painful execution that redefines the meaning of cruel and unusual punishment. “When there Is life, there Is hope”, but when soiled clay like Kamala gets self-reshaped and baked out of her original God designed intention, you can kiss all hope for life out the window for the cherubs who become the first to be sacrificed on their all-consuming alter of egotistical eroticism.
THE LEFT doesn’t care. THEY WANNA KILL BABIES WHEN EVER THEY WANT for what ever reason they want!
with the invention of multi forms of birth control an abortion should be obsolete!
but the cult of death democrat party has brain washed women.
EVEN THOSE too old to get pregnant.