Murder is illegal, abortion is not. We can't equate the 2.
The point is that we have to have someone at the top that espouses the principal that abortion is killing a life, even if we all know abortion is going to happen anyway.
Here's the thing that I wrestle with. I am without question anti-abortion. I recognize that abortion is the taking of a life. It's not arguable. Now. Do I want abortion to be illegal?
I guess that depends on your principals and what you can live with.
I say just support the candidate you feel most comfortable with.
I think the argument for me on abortion laws is that SCOTUS usurped the people and we have bad law based on judicial fiat. We are told that abortion is legal because lawyers in black robes decided it was. They invented the concept of 'privacy rights' in the Constitution, where none exists. The people have not had the opportunity to argue and vote on this issue. If we as a country decided to amend the US Constitution, or state constitutions, by a vote of the people, then I could live with the results, even if I disagreed with the outcome. What we need for resolution is a national discussion and vote on abortion, without the judicial fiat the liberals wanted and got with Roe V. Wade.
I think we all can agree that a vast majority of abortions that take place is for birth control and the convenience of the living, not for rape or incest. My older brother recently got a girl pregnant after a month of dating. She wanted to talk about it, he was horrified and wanted an abortion. She got angry, he paid the doctor, and she got the abortion. I have not discussed this issue with him, and I may never. I was extraordinarily upset that he wanted to kill, what in essence, was my (bastard) nephew. My mom told him he was killing her grandchild, begged him to reconsider, could give it up for adoption. He wanted personal responsibility; just have the 'procedure' (as he called it) and problem solved. I can't relate to his kind of thinking.
Well anyway, I would rather have someone at the top screaming that abortion is wrong, choose life, even when it is of no avail. To not do so would be a great disservice to the concept that life is a precious gift, rather than a mere convenience.