Unfortunately we agree about neither. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secure against the violence of the stronger. The homicide of 1.5 million unborn human beings every year who are supposed to have rights protected by our Constitution is as blatant an injustice as any I can imagine.
History affords no better example of the stronger using violence against the weaker.
However, Stripling implies that the end justifies the means. Still, the federal government might usurp powers not given to it, as Stripling claims the Supreme Court did in Dred Scott and Roe . Abraham Lincoln followed Publius, arguing that the Republican party believed black slavery was a moral, social, and political wrong which Congress had the authority to forbid in U.S. territories, Taney's Dred Scott decision notwithstanding. He announced that if elected, the Republicans would reverse the Court's holding by passing new laws forbidding slavery in the territories. I propose the same solution to our national abortion crisis.