For more than four decades, the pro-life advocates have sent billions on stopping abortion on demand. They have marched, campaigned, picketed, counseled, lobbied, threatened, and established large political foundations. Some of these efforts have been effective, but some have inadvertently become a real obstacle to victory in the fight to protect the unborn.
A very liberal cousin of mine has been a congressional staffer for a Democrat from Minnesota.
At a recent family reunion in Minnesota, I said; "The pro-life issue alone is enough reason for me to support republicans.".
"The Republicans in Washington don't want Abortion to ever end!",
He responded. "They make too much money off the issue and they get all these Catholics to keep voting for them because of the issue."
The short dialogue left me thinking. I knew he was saying a few things that I could not refute. Many of the vast Catholic population in Minnesota are populist and support socialist ideas. If the Abortion issue was resolved, they'd go back to being staunch Democrat activists. And the devout people of several denominations are, to varying degrees, similar.