Platform: a%ortion and federalism

If abortion is the taking of human life, and therefore should be criminalized, a federalist must conclude that it is a State matter.

I don't support Federal bans on certain forms of abortion, any more than I support, for example, a Federal minimum wage. The Federal government has no power to make a crime that falls outside of the piracy/counterfeit/treason area, where the Federal government or its
stability is under direct attack, or a State crime crosses State or international boundaries.

Of course this doesn't touch the issue of whether there is an individual right, deserving Federal protection, to abort a fetus. More on that later.