Not true. The constitution does not set out any sort of obligation to protect women or men for that matter. It does not obligate the government to make laws against rape, incest or murder or pass any other law. Furthermore, the government has no obligation at all to keep you alive and therefore no obligation to pay for an abortion even if your life is in danger. The fact is there is no sort of obligation for the government to do anything towards abortion in terms of either paying for abortions or passing laws against abortions.
Actually, you're wrong.
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Due Process of Law: legal definition of Due Process of Law:. Due Process of Law: synonyms by the Free Online Law Dictionary.
A fundamental, constitutional guarantee that all legal proceedings will be fair and that one will be given notice of the proceedings and an opportunity to be heard before the government acts to take away one's life, liberty, or property. Also, a constitutional guarantee that a law shall not be unreasonable, Arbitrary, or capricious.
The constitutional guarantee of due process of law, found in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, prohibits all levels of government from arbitrarily or unfairly depriving individuals of their basic constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property. The due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, ratified in 1791, asserts that no person shall "be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." This amendment restricts the powers of the federal government and applies only to actions by it. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, declares,"[N]or shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" (§ 1). This clause limits the powers of the states, rather than those of the federal government.
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment has also been interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court in the twentieth century to incorporate protections of the Bill of Rights, so that those protections apply to the states as well as to the federal government. Thus, the Due Process Clause serves as the means whereby the Bill of Rights has become binding on state governments as well as on the federal government.
Thus, the federal government has the power to make federal laws and has jurisdiction over federal property and other areas states do not, and Congress made and passed and presidents signed various statutes into law and the SC did not find them unconstitutional. Hence, there are federal laws against murder, manslaughter, rape, etc. Such laws were passed to protect not your life and liberty, but your rights to them, against people and states who tried to violate them.
I agree that the government is not under an obligation to pass laws against abortions, but if a state passes them and an individual person complains that this violates her rights, whether as patient or doctor to a court, the court can made a ruling, and if you don't like it, you can keep on appealing up to the SC, and the SC decides whether or not the law violates your constitutional rights.
