Roe v Wade: “It did horrible damage to this country”

Dennis Prager: You would think that the Supreme Court ruled that abortion is illegal, if this is what the Supreme Court rules. There’s nothing at all like that. All it said was the federal government should not have a say in this matter, because there’s no right to privacy in the Constitution and because “right to privacy” is irrelevant to the issue. Every — not every, but vast numbers of immoral, unethical activity is done privately. Most people don’t murder in public. They don’t embezzle in public. It was an absurdity when it was passed. It did horrible damage to this country, Roe v. Wade. Completely gratuitous creator of a rift in this country.

The reason we have federalism — in other words, power to states — the founders brilliantly understood: We don’t have a monopoly on what is right. None of us does, including those of us who are conservative. We may well be wrong. We understand that. So, you allow these issues to be debated by the American people and decided in each state. Then there are moral laboratories, in this case 50 of them. That’s the ideal. The ideal of the left is to give the federal government more and more and more and more and more and more power. It’s never enough, never enough.