re: #18 MsJ

I am struggling mightily with this.

The whole abortion as a moral dilemma is abjectly stupid and to me abhorrent. Personally, as soon as you show any sway that abortion is a moral issue, you lose. Period. If it is morally wrong, it is wrong if you do it once or a million times. Abortion is removing a clump of cells. It is not a guarantee of a human being, it’s a potential person. If it cannot live outside of its host, it’s not a moral issue. (And third term abortions are to save either the mother or usually to remove a dead fetus. Third term abortions are a shiny object to get moral outrage geared to 1000.) The whole “as few as possible” when it comes to abortion is automatically ceding the moral argument. And to me, wrong. Abortions are surgical procedures and if a woman has 1000 abortions, so be it. No morality involved.

So, that’s my take on abortion.

But, that said, we have spoken many times about all politics being local. To get a democrat elected we might have to allow varying priorities throughout localities around the country.

**IF** people’s personal opinions are not going to affect their votes (a la Biden), this is a pill to be swallowed. Having democrats voting for anti-abortion legislation, that’s a completely different animal.

I see no struggle. You back candidates who are politically pro-choice. How they behave in their private lives matters not. Did I miss something?