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You are mistaken, as the Supreme Court pointed out. The federal government has no authority with regard to abortion and therefore are specifically prohibited by the Tenth Amendment from enacting any law on the subject - either way.The Supreme Court did not rule that abortion was exclusively a state issue. They simply ruled that it was not up to each individual woman to decide, at any stage in the pregnancy. As I said in my earlier post, the federal government can make the decision to ban or allow abortion nationwide. So no, it is not just left up to the abortion law in each state.
I don't understand your last question. Educate you on the filibuster?
The powers of the federal government are defined by the US Constitution. If the US Constitution does not specifically grant Congress the power, then they don't have it. Which is why the Supreme Court returned the bad 1973 decision in Roe back to the States. Only the States have the constitutional authority to regulate abortion, not the federal government.