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[athena]

90. No one is saying Congress should not make any laws.

What many people are saying is that Congress should not make detailed and specific laws about health-related procedures like abortion and organ donation.

Abortion is a complicated issue. Since the woman's health or life may be at stake, the issue is too complicated for Congress to be making specific laws about it. If, for example, Congress decides abortion is OK if the woman's health is at stake, how would such a law be implemented? Should the government really be in the business of cross-checking whether each health exemption was justified? Most people would be against allowing government that much interference in medical issues.

Note that if you kill someone who is trying to rape or injure you, that is self-defense, not murder. The only way you can compare abortion to murder or theft is if you don't recognize the personhood of the woman, and her right to her bodily integrity.