Empower a tyrant to protect human life?
That's an oxymoron.
Tyrants, by definition, rule by their own will, not by respect for God-given rights.
Nice dodge. From this thread, many have written that abortion is THE issue that makes one a conservative and the ONLY issue that really matters. All of the other issues are only peripheral.
My point is that by that logic, Hugo Chavez would be very desirable due to his anti-abortion stance - a stance that is much stronger than any of our politicians. The fact that he sucks in other areas wouldn't matter since they are only "peripheral issues".