Abortion must be a national issue, not a state issue
Dobbs v. Jackson was not and must not be the end of the abortion debate at the national level. It was the beginning.
Abortion is murder, and we have the photographic evidence to prove it. We live in a federalist system, but we would never tolerate a state allowing kindergartners to be rounded up and slaughtered. If we truly believe abortion is the violent termination of an innocent human life, making the slaughter of innocent babies a "states rights" issue is nonsensical.
Some on the Right have argued the federal government has no constitutional authority to federally ban abortion. That is simply not true. The Fourteenth Amendment makes it illegal for states to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Excluding unborn babies from legal protections against murder is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Even if it was true that the federal government has no authority to ban abortion nationwide, that is why every Republican Party platform 1984-2016 called for Human Life Amendment to the Constitution. Donald Trump and his apologists are lying when they claim "everybody" wanted abortion returned to the states. The next four years will be better for the unborn than having a bloodthirsty abortion advocate in the Oval Office, but Christians need to continue to push the Trump Administration to be aggressively pro-life.
Some on the Right claim we have more important issues to tackle first, such as closing the border and taming inflation. But while there are important issues our nation must address, there is no more important issue than than the genocide of 63 million unborn babies in these United States since 1973. The worldwide total is much worse. Over 2.78 billion babies have been slaughtered worldwide over the last 40 years, and our own federal government encourages this slaughter with "family planning" funding to poor nations.
Dobbs v. Jackson was not and must not be the end of the abortion debate at the national level. It was the beginning. We cannot be satisfied with removing the Supreme Court's roadblocks to equal protection under the law. We cannot stop until we make abortion illegal across the entire nation, from one side of the continent to the other. We must not surrender, as much as the Republican Party establishment wishes we would. We must keep going.