You’re correct, but it isn’t their obsession with abortion, but their obsession with zero tolerance absolutism. Whenever you have sharp disagreement on an issue in a republic you need education, argumentation and time. I’d employ the same strategy that is used against gun control.
Can’t we agree that at some point during a pregnancy the baby becomes human? Work back from the point of passage through the birth canal. Is a baby human a minute before? An hour before? A day before? A week? Then a month? How many months?
Women are sensitive about their sex organ and their uniquely feminine issues with it. Stating that rape is “of God” will lose that vote. Placing the emphasis on the baby as a living thing, places the onus on the pro-abortion side. Mourdock and Akin were fools. Had they explained their views logically and thoughtfully they’d have won.
The media is an extension of the progressive movement. But, it can be used to the benefit of conservatives. If they’re not stupid about it. The other problem are voters who take an all or nothing attitude toward politics. The history of politics is incrementalism v. revolution. Revolutions fail nearly always because all human action begins with a thought. The battles are always of ideas - physical weapons cannot defeat an idea. Look at history.
I think you stated it very well. I would have written something similar, if I wasn’t using my phone.
But, it isn’t just the people you mentioned. The party is full of activists with the same absolutist attitude, and they prevent any compromise.
In all fairness, there are similar people on the other side, that will accept no compromise, either.
He’s not correct.
see gallup poll reference above this comment.
It certainly looks like one from very early in the pregnancy. My daughter is 18 weeks pregnant and sent me a picture of the sonogram she had done a couple of days ago. There is no mistaking that she is carrying a baby - not an "unviable mass of tissue". The tragedy is that many women who have abortions see the same thing when they eventually have children and most of them are overcome by guilt when they realize what they have done.