text: You can certainly bang your head against the wall because it feels good when you stop.  Don't try to constitutionalize natural law into the American system.  It does not and never should fit.  If you want to do something for the unborn, work within the boundaries.  It is possible to move personhood to an earlier time in pregnancy and natural law discussions will take place in Congress (the only appropriate venue), but the resolution will be within the American natural rights system.  Any solution should include the natural law reasoning on economics from Leo XIII to Pius XI to Benedict XVI on social democracy and the living wage.  Whether you endorse the latter shows whether your views are Catholic or Republican.