The federalism dodge is frequently used by slippery folks. The fact is he lives in a state, New York. He seemed to be stating that the woman and doctor should be charged with a crime if an abortion takes place in New York. Right?

The following may make some here angry but here goes my somewhat quiet rant.

In society you must exercise a right by choosing and acting freely. Not all actions will be free depending on the society even though you should have liberty to do the action. You cannot require others to provide you with anything, including privacy. You can work to have privacy laws passed but most people will view privacy differently than you do.
As to abortion, the government, in a way, reverted to language of the past where a baby or child is a fetus which has been born. Fetuses have only the rights of a parasite which feeds off another. There, it is the one who is being fed off of who has the right to keep or reject the parasite. It might be too harsh to say it that way, but the only right, as a parasite, that such a fetus or other parasite has is to accept what is given to it or go elsewhere, though that is questionable in the case of a fetus since it has no ability to think or accept anything.

I am tired of the political nonsense of "pro life" and "pro choice" the first just indicates that only human life is good and the second that one is moral. I would like it if every pregnancy was a chosen one with parents who would love the child and that every pregnancy would end in a healthy child but that is a kind of crap shoot with a large percentage of fetuses being malformed and most likely unable to live any kind of a normal life (as do some downs syndrome children and others with much help) which are miscarried and unnoticed by the mother. I have enough empathy to understand the horrors that mothers can have about abortion and even the possible horror of forcing very sickly and in constant pain or needing-large-numbers-of- surgeries babies to live painful lives let alone those who will live painful lives due to extremely bad parents.
No one has a right to force any choice on anyone else. Those choices do not include what would be actual criminal choices. I do not consider that abortion is criminal since there is no person yet to exorcise a right other than the mother only. Thus the state and society should stay out of it.

Exactly right!

An infant is born. Inside it is a fetus. A fetus is a physical parasite, not a person.

That is a very very important truth that is so lost on people, particularly those responding to the natural "underdog reaction".

I must disagree about "everything is relative" if you mean their existences and identities. Just measurements of relationships ( that was a bit redundant since measurements are relationships and done relative to other things) of things are relative to the context that they exist in. There are no measurements of an existent except relative to other existents. All physical measurements are done with respect to units described by some standard objects or systems. E.g., time is measured with respect to some standard process such as a clock and positions are measured by what can be considered standard rulers which may be solid or even the length of a laser beam by using a standard clock to measure the length. All concepts are defined in terms a some relationship between sub-classes of existents with respect to the larger classes ( the genus of the definition). If one has not at least implicitly done that, one will not have an understanding of the objective objects referenced by the concepts and they will just remain sounds and mental junk.

What does "Trump is in this for himself." say but that he has self interest although not like yours in "I want to vote for someone who actually represents the values I espouse and that is self-interest."
There is no way that there ever will be someone that would hold values like you do. Everyone's values are concepts formulated from different views of objective reality, so you are on an unending quest. The words for those concepts might be the same point to same reality but may have different measurement ranges for what is subsumed by the concept and defined by the definitions.

but not always to those observing the discussion.

Right, she is a family member and I seek to silence this argument she has chosen to voice. I will not change her position, but people watching will realize she is a zealot, not an authority. You never know how this goes, but every once in a while display of a firm grasp of the facts causes someone to come up later and ask you "What does the fourth amendment really mean?" That is when you know you've effected someone.

Hey where did Sancho go? I need my lance!

I was thinking something like this should've been Trumps response to her bringing up the recording. Something like:
"Look Hillary, I'm not proud of what I said, but men are pigs. All men are pigs. How can you be unaware of this? You are married to one of the biggest pigs and you have women promising blow jobs campaigning for you. Either you are incompetent at critical thinking or a complete hypocrite, either one is unsuitable for president."

Coy is cute, but annoying.