[Blue Jays]

My concern is when a "pure" Conservative gets stuck on ONE pet topic. That is when things get challenging.

This is much like abortion and RKBA / Second Amendment rights, for example. Liberals do not wish firearms to be permissible. In both cases, my feeling is pure Conservatives should NOT get abortions if they do not want them and should perhaps convince others not to get them...yet they remain LEGAL.

In the case of firearms...Liberals should be free to NOT have them in their homes or their private property. They can encourage people not to own them, too. Firearms should naturally remain LEGAL and people who are Conservative can continue to happily buy and possess them as they wish.

One would suppose I am more of a hands-off individual who allows people to make their own decisions for themselves. Anything that specifically does not require Federal involvement (like the military) should be pushed to States to administer on a far more local method.

That is my quick $0.02 viewpoint on it with two limited examples.
This is naturally a very complex topic that could take volumes of space!

[savedbygrace]

In both cases, my feeling is pure Conservatives should NOT get abortions if they do not want them and should perhaps convince others not to get them...yet they remain LEGAL.

Sounds like you do not believe that abortion is murder, the killing of an innocent human being.

Also sounds like you believe that "pure conservatives" oppose abortion because it is a political position, not a deeply held belief that abortion is murder.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.