It has everything to do with candidates riding that horse pro or con. Single issue voters will go for that.Voters had absolutely nothing to do with Roe V Wade. It was in the hands of an appointed Supreme Court.Abortion is a single-issue-stupid-voter subject. Focusing on that alone blinds one to the comprehensive understanding multiple issues.
Pedro is a fucking internationalist communist Russian trying to stir shit up from St.Petersburg, Russia in here. Pedro you have nothing at stake here go back to your dasha relax, get drunk on some Stolichnaya.
Sort of like the nationally legalized same sex marriage debacle.
Politicians opinions on abortion or gay marriage are about as significant as a mosquito on an elephant's ass. They aren't running for U.S Supreme court justices. There's nothing they can do about Supreme Court decisions. But like they did in the GOP debates they do manage to eliminate themselves from being contenders for the nomination, much less from getting 200 miles from the White House by stating their personal opinions on these social issues.
For instance when Kelly asked Scott Walker about him being against an exception to the life of the mother over abortion. He went WHITE, and looked like a deer in the headlights. He has absolutely no chance what-so-ever of becoming the next POTUS. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Huckabee, are simply a waste of time right now for the same exact reason. WOMEN are not going to vote for them. Women are the majority voting block in this country today.
Personally, if I were running for any elected office, and someone asked me if I was pro-life or pro-choice, or for gay marriage, I would tell them that these are Supreme Court issues, nothing I can do anything about, and it's really no ones business what my personal opinion is. (But, it will take another 40 years for the Republican Party to figure out why they are accused of starting a war on women campaign or why they can't get elected at high level positions.)