You believe that you are making a point but you are not. Slavery was never seen as a fringe issue...we fought a civil war over it...why are you asking me if I think it was a fringe issue?
“You believe that you are making a point but you are not. Slavery was never seen as a fringe issue...”
Correct. People at the time rightly recognized it as a civilization-defining issue. As intelligent people today on both sides of the political spectrum recognize abortion as a civilization-defining issue, not a fringe issue. Which is why people on the both the right and the left are so violently passionate about it. You don’t think you would get away with telling Democrats that abortion is a “fringe” issue, would you?
“why are you asking me if I think it was a fringe issue?”
I’ve tried to explain that several times. Because abortion and slavery are both civilization-shaping issues on which no political compromise can ever be reached, and which will continue to be a point of heated conflict in our society until one side wins and one side loses, permanently. We resolved the one issue, but we are yet to resolve the other. But neither of them can be reasonably argued to be “fringe” issues.
Since you do recognize that slavery couldn’t be seen as a “fringe” issue, then perhaps you can ask yourself why it was not a “fringe” issue, and then you may realize why calling abortion a “fringe” issue is such an uninsightful comment on the matter.