4 posted on 2/3/2014 1:47:35 PM by BJ1: “But articles get posted on FR all the time showing abortion has the lowest support of the population since Roe v. Wade. The argument to moderate on that issue doesn’t seem logical: The country was much less pro-life when Reagan won in 1980 and 1984. Just saying.”
Thank you, Jim.
As BJ1 pointed out, caving in on this issue is not just wrong, it's illogical. Abortion is an issue on which, due to developing technology, it has become much more difficult for the average person to maintain the liberal fiction that a “fetus” is not a child. When mothers are routinely getting “baby's first picture” of a very early ultrasound and showing it on Facebook, the fact that a baby is a baby, both before and after birth, is becoming increasingly obvious.
As it becomes more and more obvious that abortion is killing a living person, one of two things will happen. Either America will become comfortable with the idea that it's okay for people to kill people who have done nothing wrong if they are an inconvenience, or abortion will become less and less acceptable as a choice, perhaps someday leading to greater restrictions and eventual abolition.
Down that first road lies nightmare scenarios such as killing “defective” babies after they're born, killing seriously injured people after accidents, and killing elderly people, all because they're an “inconvenience.”
I shudder to think what America will look like if the general public decides abortion is murder and it's still okay regardless of that fact.
There are some issues we can afford to moderate on a bit but this and other pure constitutional issues are not something that we can moderate ourselves on.
This isn’t wind power. If someone can make wind power work on their own dime I say go for it but abortion is a pure moral and constitutional (life liberty and pursuit of happiness) issue and there is no middle ground.