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In June 2022, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which had shaped the country's abortion law since 1973.

We are currently having an active discussion at the national level about which abortion regime will fill this vacuum.

In Roe, the Court ruled that the U.S. Constitution provides a right to abortion. The Dobbs ruling, written by Justice Samuel Alito, concluded that the U.S. Constitution does not provide a right to abortion.

Today, the general opinion is that the abortion issue must go “back to the United States.”

Although Dobbs notes that the Constitution “does not prohibit the citizens of the several states from regulating or prohibiting abortion,” he concludes that it “returns authority … to the people and their elected representatives.”

Although we know that each state can now regulate abortion as it sees fit, the question is, is federal abortion regulation now out of the question?

I would say that the answer to a federal law like the Women's Health Protection Act pushed by Democrats is yes. It's not feasible. Since Dobbs has already ruled that the Constitution does not contain a right to abortion, a federal law allowing abortion cannot be passed without amending the Constitution.

But what about a federal law that bans abortion and protects the life of the unborn?

I believe that a federal law to protect the life of the unborn is both possible and necessary.

Let us recall the famous exchange between Pastor Rick Warren and presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008. Pastor Warren asked Obama, “At what point do you think a baby begins to have human rights?” Presidential candidate Obama replied, “Whether you look at it from a theological or scientific point of view, it is beyond my ability to answer that question accurately.”

How strange to entrust the leadership of our country to someone who has no clear conclusions on the most basic questions of life and death. Of course, given history, we know that the president at the time was simply being disingenuous. A few years later, he became the first American president to speak at the national convention of Planned Parenthood, the country's largest abortion provider, in Washington, ending his address with the words “God bless you.”

Today's abortion advocates are bolder and clearer than ever before in their belief that life in the womb is merely an appendage of her body and belongs to her.

Whenever I hear a woman say, “My body belongs to me, I belong to myself,” I want her to produce the bill of sale documenting the transaction by which she acquired it.

Our national founding document, the Declaration of Independence, also makes clear that our rights come from our “Creator” because we come from our “Creator.”

But many in our nation turn a blind eye to it.

Can we force American citizens to believe? No.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. noted, “Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Court orders may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.”

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal looks at the disappearing role of grandparents. According to the article, by 2023, about half of 50- to 90-year-olds will be grandparents. This is down from 57% in 2018.

We have lost sight of the fact that freedom is important because our Creator gave us free choice – the choice between life and death, good and evil.

Our country is in great danger because a culture has developed in which more and more people prefer death to life.

The deadly consequences lie before us.

Let's face it: The American people need leadership that is committed to a future that is only possible in a free nation under God, where our choices are lifelong.

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Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show “Cure America with Star Parker.”