"NON-ISSUE"???
Pre-born babies are being killed. What do you rank ahead of that?
And Presidents can change the status of the legality of abortion by appointing anti-Roe Supreme Court Justices and by signing on to Congress taking abortion out of the purview of the courts.
Abortion as a life or death issue is indeed important and I am staunchly opposed to it. But when used as a political tool, it is nothing more than a false wedge designed to divide the party. Since Roe vs. Wade, we have had 23 years of Republican presidents, all of whom have been opposed to abortion. In terms of the Supreme Court, it’s been considered Conservative for at least the past 35 years. Of the 5 Justices considered the most conservative since Franklin Roosevelt, 4 of them are currently seated.
If a president had the power to overturn R v. W, why hasn’t it been done by now?
If the SCOTUS has the power to overturn R v. W, why hasn’t it been done by now?
If both the President and the SCOTUS together had the power to overturn R v. W then why haven’t they done so by now?
The closest the Supreme Court has come to overturning R v. W was when they upheld the ban against partial birth abortion and that was only a 5 - 4 decision.
The sad truth is, it’s unlikely R v. W will ever be overturned in our lifetime, if ever. And to hold the pro-life issue as a primary litmus test over all the other obstacles facing the presidency in order to determine who one will vote for, the afore mentioned 35 years has already proven that to be a useless criteria……..