In my last column, I proposed that the United States Supreme Court go beyond referring the regulation of baby abortions back to the states to remind the nation that the Constitution was adopted to protect life, as it does in the “privileges and immunities” clause of Article IV, Section 2 and the “due process clause” of both the Fifth and the Fourteenth amendments, and by implication in Congress’s power “to provide for the common defense.” If the government established by the Constitution does not protect life, including the liberty and property indispensable to its security, it would be a mockery of governance.