The purpose of politicians in our system is to acquire power from us by getting elected and re-elected.
That's how we exercise our sovereignty.
Being convincingly anti-abortion is a ticket to defeat.
Lots of politicians are making their way by lying or equivocating about it, sure - but not by promosing a ban.
When the people support a ban, then, yes, the politicians will, too.
Politicians are generally to the left of the public, not the other way around.
Case in point: Affirmative action. The voters have repeatedly supported banning it, but it does no good because both parties support it. Another example is immigration. Huge majorities want real enforcement and oppose things like drivers licenses for illegals, but the politicians ignore us. The reason is that on those issues, even the conservatives have been “taught” by the media to capitulate.
If we follow your advice on abortion, the same thing will happen. First, it’ll be twice as hard to convince people that abortion should be banned if only a handful of marginalized politicians support banning it. But even if we were able to garner a huge majority for banning it, the idea that it shouldn’t be banned would by that time have become entrenched in both political parties and nothing would happen.
They can’t win without the pro-life vote, and THIS pro-lifer “Sun” looks at their history, not a recent flip flop in order to win.
Voters need to do their research before voting, particularly before voting in the primaries. Duncan Hunter and Sam Brownback attended the pro-life march in D.C. I look at that.
Duncan Hunter keeps introducing the personhood-at-conception bill each year, and Sam Brownback has been a loud voice for the voiceless.
Sam Brownback, of course, dropped out, and I didn’t agree with him on other issues, but I know he is a strong and sincere pro-lifer.
The strongest pro-lifer left is Duncan Hunter, and a couple of the others aren’t bad.