So Granite, for the rest of your time on TOL, why don't you limit yourself to debating only the ideas of Hillary, Rudy, etc.
Lucky, good question, but... no. Ron Paul sponsors legislation telling the states that he would mandate the federal government to look the other way, to ignore, to tolerate, any state that legalized abortion. See his two 2007 bills, Sanctity, and We the People. In reality, while the states can be the place to prosecute crime, if a state refuses to prosecute a class of crimes, such as raping women or killing Jews or children, that in and of itself is a crime, and a violation of human rights (rights the constitution was meant to uphold), and the federal government should use its might and authority to stop the state from such criminal negligence and conspiracy.
If a nation legalized the murder of Jews, it would be justified for other nations to use force to stop that state from such systematic criminal actions. It would be wrong to teach that other nations MUST ignore, tolerate, or passively sit by while state-sponsored genocide occurs. This is true with abortion also.
-Bob Enyart