{"id":1273,"date":"2023-08-24T15:18:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/abortion-and-last-nights-gop-debate\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T15:18:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:18:58","slug":"abortion-and-last-nights-gop-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/abortion-and-last-nights-gop-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion and Last Night’s GOP Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The overturning of Roe v. Wade returned the abortion question to the states. That means that each state is empowered to enact its own laws regulating abortion. Some states will permit abortion up to the moment of birth. Others will not. Different states, different laws.<\/span><\/p>\n

What then are we to make of Mike Pence and Senator Tim Scott and their  call for a Federal law that bans abortion (apart from the usual exceptions) during the last 15 weeks of pregnancy? <\/span><\/p>\n

Am I missing something? (When I write about political and legal issues, I write as a concerned citizen and not as an expert in these areas.) It strikes me as obvious that if the abortion issue is for the states to decide, then there cannot<\/em> be any federal abortion laws. <\/span><\/p>\n

Nikki Haley and Pence danced around this issue but their heated tango  was irrelevant blather. Pence insisted that the abortion question was a moral one. No doubt, but that it is not to the point. Haley irrelevantly asserted that that an anti-abortion majority has not been seen in the Senate in \u201cover 100 years.\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t make women feel like they have to decide on this issue when you know we don\u2019t have 60 Senate votes.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

The precise question is: How is a federal abortion restriction consistent with the states' right to decide the abortion laws? ND Governor Doug Burgum alone seemed to understand the problem, but his fleeting remark failed to set it forth clearly.<\/span><\/p>\n

The answer to the precise question is that the federal restriction is not consistent with states' rights. It is unconstitutional.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is not a very satisfying answer given that abortion is a moral abomination. (See my Abortion<\/a> category for arguments.) But arguments, no matter how good, cut no ice in the teeth of our concupiscence. This is explained in my Substack<\/em> article, Abortion and the Wages of Concupiscence Unrestrained.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The overturning of Roe v. Wade returned the abortion question to the states. That means that each state is empowered to enact its own laws regulating abortion. Some states will permit abortion up to the moment of birth. Others will not. Different states, different laws. What then are we to make of Mike Pence and … Continue reading “Abortion and Last Night’s GOP Debate”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,123,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-political-morality","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}