Considering more people have been killed by abortion just since 1980 than all the people killed in all wars and health epidemics through all of the world’s recorded history combined, do you still feel you don’t know which “plank” is worse?
I don’t recall the anti-abortion plank in the Republican Party platforms of 1856 or 1860, or the pro-abortion planks in the Democratic platform of the same years.
Harry Blackmun, the author of Roe v. Wade, was first made a judge by Eisenhower and elevated to the Supreme Court by Nixon.
The author of the main dissenting opinion, Byron White, was appointed by JFK.
Leading me to conclude that while abortion is a bad thing, it may not be the most appropriate issue to use to evaluate Lincoln, though I’m quite willing to hear arguments to the contrary.