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.
I see you leave morality out of it, you’re just concerned with politics. nuf’ said. I thought you were referring to the evil of the two, not who could be “blamed” for the evils. Too much credit.