I entered this thread to add to the mix of variables the impending mooting of abortion by technology. My intention was to preemptively warn of spinning wheels and mistaken destinations: Abortion will soon transmute into something quite different; it will become truly private and seemingly beyond the reach of constitutional redress.
Unspoken in all these arguments trying to legalize babykilling and to morally castrate the GOP is the private confidence of pro-aborts that morally slovenly (or outright homicidal) juries may engage in jury nullification to protect baby-killing. Well, a restoration of the rule of law (not possible while Roe is not yet overturned) will allow the equity jurisdiction of civil courts to be exercised to provide life imprisonment on the installment plan to abortionists and their facilitators under civil injunctions against abortionists (and those acting "in concert" with them) and contempt citations leading to imprisonment for contempt.
After Roe is sent to the dustbin of history, the states will be re-empowered to regulate or ban abortion. Soon enough, most states will ban abortion or render it effectively unavailable through regulation. The remaining states will suffer sustained legal and legislative assault until they fall.
We are not surrendering on social issues, now or ever. If that bothers you so much, ask the Demonrats to take care of whatever it may be that makes you think you want to be Republican.
Imagine the imaginary conversation:
Herr Braun: Isn't Hitler's rounding up and killing Jews en masse just AWFUL?
Herr Gauleiter: That's only ONE issue. You don't want go be a one-issue voter, do you? He built our autobahn. He beefed up our military. He gives us terrific speeches. He ignores all that burdensome Versailles nonsense to build a thousand year reich! (Pant, pant!) Okay, he kills Jews but who is perfect?
Bottom line: Herr Braun's concerns prevailed (with the help of Patton and of the Army Air Corps). There is still a Germany but it is no longer Hitler's Germany. There will be an America but it will not be Planned Barrenhood's and Sanger's Amerika, narcissistically slaughtering its future.
For whatever reason, Mia T, you may fervently wish abortion would go away as an issue but it will not until it is abolished and effectively suppressed.
Nations and political parties come and go but morality has, does and will linger on as an essential example of "the permanent things." It is also natural that evildoers prefer that their evil remain "private." Bank robbers, murderers and rapists would like to see to it that their depredations are "private." Why should those who would protect or perform the slicing, dicing and hamburgerization of innocent unborn infants want their evils to be noticed by the general public?
The outlawing and punishment of abortion is NEVER a mistaken destination and never will be.