#34 Mike D’Virgilio — “You are so invested in your distortion of such Christians that you actually think positions against abortion or same sex marriage are “how you live your life planks,” and that there are only bible based reasons against them.”
Let’s assume you can name a perfectly valid secular reason to outlaw abortion. I rather doubt this is true, but… so? Anyone who wants an abortion can easily afford a flight out of the country to get a procedure done or take a pill. It’s about 1 or 2 day’s pay for anyone in the middle class to buy that flight. It simply doesn’t matter what reason you have or think you have, and it doesn’t matter if you outlaw it. Technology trumps.
Abortion and so on doesn’t belong in a party platform not merely because it’s 99% a religious argument, but also because that particular battle was lost the day that jet travel was introduced. Picking battles that are winnable seems like a more productive thing for a national political party to do.
