[Ohioan]

Please do not use the term "Conservative," if all you want to do is impose your social values on others. That is not Conservative in the American context. That questions of health, safety & morals were left to the States, is a basic principle of Federalism.)

Read the Declaration of Independence. the grievances relate to distant Government interfering with local self-Government. Look more closely at the design of our Federal Constitution: Constitutional Overview.

Do not confuse the one or two issue types with Conservatives who understand the whole picture & the division of power, function & responsibility.

If you want to fight against legal abortion, you will not accomplish much until you adopt tactics consistent with reality. The abortion decision could have been reversed--in effect--by a simple act of Congress;--but the faux Conservatives to which you allude have not been willing to work with real Conservatives to that end. (And see Against Abortion, for arguments for which the Left has no real answer.)

William Flax

[Marguerite]

The federal government should have not legislated on abortion, one way or another, as the Supreme Court should have kept its nose out of it. PERIOD.

[gogogodzilla]

Is this directed to me or to the typical social conservative, a la Santorum?

For you’re really just summing up my own beliefs.