“Beta O’Rourke May Benefit From an Unlikely Support Group: White Evangelical Women”, Elisabeth Dias, New York Times, 2018-10-09
This shift is that these women are seeing O’Rourke as a “stark moral contrast to Mr. Trump.” They are seeing other moral values that Trump does not have; values that are just as important as opposing abortion.
The problem with abortion as a political issue is that it ignores many problems that are not controlled by an “unwilling” mother.
Shall a teen-age girl be responsible for a child fathered by force, whether by a known or unknown male?
Shall a woman of any age be forced to bear a child whose birth will kill her? What would that do to any previous children she had?
We really cannot make any sweeping pronouncements about abortion without knowing all facts in each individual case.
If we make all abortions illegal, who will be punished? Will it be the unwilling mother? Will it be the “back alley abortionist”? Will it be the not present father?
Ironically, some of these “value” voters are supporting a party that is quite willing to cause unwanted abortions in other countries. How many pregnant women are killed in wars? How many of these pregnant women even support the wars in their countries? And some of these politicians with the “big buttons” are quite willing to obliterate large numbers of women and children.
