Letter: Politicians to blame Topeka Capital Journal
Yet again, the abortion wars in our courts flare up, with the American Civil Liberties Union and the abortion industry on one side, and our new governor and friends — backed up with one of the most powerful law firms in Kansas — on the other.
Maybe the folks at Foulston Siefkin could teach Attorney General Derek Schmidt a thing or two about abortion lawsuits along the way — ”on the job” training is the best teacher. The fact that we can’t buy little kids violins but we can pay a hot-shot firm hundreds of thousands of dollars does raise an eyebrow, but to be fair, taxpayer money going to private firms is nothing new.
But the people who should receive the brunt of the pro-life movement’s wrath should not be Planned Parenthood or the ACLU, it should be the pro-life politicians themselves, especially on the federal level.
Why is this?
Because our U.S. Congress long ago could have fixed this mess by using its authority under Article III, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution to give the states exclusive jurisdiction over the abortion issue — much like they did with the entire insurance industry via the McCarran-Ferguson Act.
