[Albion Wilde]

But it’s still not right to kill innocent people. Nobody has a “right” to an abortion. That sends a vile message. None of the states permitted abortion legally until shortly before Roe v. Wade, as a result of a well-organized liberal campaign by the Rockefellers and other liberals. And the country did a hell of a lot better before all that happened, with fewer divorces, fewer broken families, fewer perverted kids, even aside from the question of whether it’s right to murder babies.

I totally agree with what you said; but as a matter of strategically reclaiming our nation, conservatives have to come to terms with the reality that today's young and even middle-aged voters have never known a world without easy legal abortion. We cannot afford to try to "go back." We must find ways to go forward, and those ways may be by increments, legally and politically.

Only when you have gotten someone's attention and heart can you convince them that what they take for granted might be a bad, bad thing. Perception is everything in politics, as the last election clearly showed.

[Cicero]

Up until the Republicans lost it, around 2005-06, the right to life candidates were winning almost everywhere, except in the most liberal states.

Even in California, a majority of black voters voted against gay marriage even as they voted for Obama.

That’s why the Democrats have to twist the language, and talk about choice instead of abortion. Because most voters do NOT favor abortion. If McCain hadn’t been such an idiot and given Obama a free pass on this issue, but had told the American people what Obama stood for—killing babies after they are born—then he would have done a lot better at the polls.