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In a country where the Supreme Court has already ruled that abortion is a right, and there is a majority in favor of that, no President is going to change it. The President has ALL the power in regard to overturning Roe. It's the President that nominates Supreme Court justices.

And, Paul is grossly ignorant if he doesn't know the majority believes that abortion should be banned in all cases except in cases of rape, incest and the mother's life being endanger. That has been true in polls for 40 years.

And, since the states would decide the issue, more than half of them would ban abortion immediately in most cases.

Paul also fails to acknowlege a 15% or so shift in favor of the pro-life position over the past 20 years and that the younger generation is the most pro-life generation.

\ Paul is either completely ignorant of the subject matter or is really pro-life.

"The President has ALL the power in regard to overturning Roe. It's the President that nominates Supreme Court justices."

That's not really all the power is it? If he gets the opportunity to nominate judges, and if the court revisits the issue again, and if his judges vote the way you expect, and if they are enough to make the difference, then yeah he has some power.

If that ever happens, and it's far from likely, it's way off in the future. It makes no sense to pick our presidents based on their personal opinions of an issue that they will not decide.

"And, Paul is grossly ignorant if he doesn't know the majority believes that abortion should be banned in all cases except in cases of rape, incest and the mother's life being endanger. That has been true in polls for 40 years."

Actually the country is roughly evenly split between "pro life" and "pro choice", and a large majority wants abortion legal to varying degrees.

"And, since the states would decide the issue, more than half of them would ban abortion immediately in most cases."

But the states aren't going to decide. The Supreme Court has already had its say.

Again, it makes no sense to base a presidential choice on his personal opinion about abortion when it's one issue he will have no power over. There are other important things he will affect. That's all he was saying.

And for anyone that missed it, he wasn't telling pro-lifers not to worry about it. He was reassuring pro-choicers that might be thinking of voting for him that they shouldn't be concerned about his pro-life views. It's good politics.