bendog
Diamond Member
I don't think anti-abortion activists are so thoroughly morally misshapen as were segregationists. The LBJ/liberal answer to segregation and poverty is probably an even worse clusterfk than Vietnam or Iraq, but that doesn't make segregation a positive, which some people still argue.Church actually want it as a wedge issue...It gives them political power, the ability to lobby politicians heavily, they have the GOP wrapped around their little finger... They invented Abortion as a wedges issue 5 years after Roe v Wade, were open about before as a 'Catholic Issue' only before that...
They lost school segregation and they needed another wedge issue and calling the other side murders seemed good.. Solidified there base evangelical vote and created the most powerful voting block in America...
There is an element of patriarchy to the opposition to a right to chose. And, imo, that is evil. And that patriarchy has support in the Bible, and it's one reason organized religion is losing support. But there are also Christians who sincerely believe zygots and fetuses should not be intentionally destroyed.
The real evil is those who use "laws" to say Roe is wrong because there's no "right to liberty" in the const. But in actuality there's nothing in the constitution that allows the Sup Court to determine a law is or is not constitutional. All Roe did, really, was apply the common law in effect at the time of the const's ratification that the State could regulate abortion after a fetus quickened. It was bipartisan effort to achieve some social resolution to allow us to live together and women to obtain safe healthcare.