If you think abortion is a trivial/small issue, then is there really anything to talk about?
The issue is really Pro-Life.
I was in the room back in 1982 when the evangelical scholar Dr. Francis Schaeffer said that Christians should defend human life including the babies born with Down’s Syndrome and those with disabilities etc. etc.
Its about human life in general, not abortion in particular. The GOP political machine turned this issue into an abortion debate only, with emphasis on “partial birth” abortion, crossing state lines with minors for abortions, parental notifications etc.
Those sidebar issues were the Karl Rovian “wedge” issues used to create voting records of “Pro-Life” for RINO’s to keep getting our votes in election after election.
When Terri Schiavo was starved to death in 2005 a phony symbolic RINO inspired vote was taken in Congress to pretend something was being done on her behalf when nothing was being done on her behalf.
The abortion issue has been used to hold voters to the RINO’s while Roe vs. Wade remains the unchallenged law of the land. Attempts to pass Roe v Wade killing legislation in states have been discouraged by the machine affiliated National Right To Life Committee.
The RINO’s have suckered people for years on this.......I would be OK with Rand Paul because even if he calls himself “Pro-Life” and does nothing about it, he would be no different from where the RINO’s have been all these years.