ALABAMA CHALLENGES "SUPREME" COURT ON ABORTION

Couldn't be more heartened by Alabama's passage of the country's strictest anti-abortion law.

If nothing else, Alabama is properly asserting its constitutional authority in this matter. Per the 10th Amendment, regulating abortion, helmet laws and myriad other objects are residual state powers, plain and simple. As you know, the feds were never delegated authority by the States to regulate, prohibit or permit abortion. In short, unless a power is explicitly delegated to the federal government or expressly denied to the States, that power exclusively devolves upon the individual States. Not opinion, just constitutional fact! Simply put, authority over abortion manifestly does NOT fall within the fed's constitutional purview, and all serious students of the Constitution know that. (But, hey. What lawyers and judges today have even read the Constitution or, worse, honor it.)

Since the misnamed civil war, States have accepted a submissive role as vassals in this once proud and dynamic "voluntary union of States". In so doing, they have each routinely caved to federal encroachment upon their powers, submission made all the more tantalizing and tolerable by hefty federal handouts and painful memories of federal aggression against uncooperative States. But, at long last, perhaps the States are on the cusp of recovering their sovereignty and re-asserting their constitutional authority, thus reinstating the foundational doctrine of "dual federal-state sovereignty" without which there can be no federal republic or that wonderful laboratory of experimentation among the States which the framers so wisely envisioned.

Political authority over abortion is the battle today, but there remain countless and serious other federal encroachments on State authority which, in time and only with principled courage and leadership, the States must nullify.