[Magdalen] The Supremes

[M J _Mike_ Logsdon]

>>>The "abortion issue" seems to be the frontline issue that is inspiring all kinds of other battles that chip away at previously settled laws and protections that have only been settled in my adult life. It is as though there is a subtle agenda  that these hot-button issues of the past which have been resolved are being attacked on a scale akin to Chinese water torture.<<<

As per the political platform specialists, it's been part of the GOP platform to overturn RvW since the beginning.  As for any goal for when to begin this chipping away, I'm unaware, but certainly the advent of the Tea Baggers appeared to be the current best shot.

I've said before that I'm positively bemused as to why, seemingly, out of nowhere the religious right (as distinct from Rome, which has always been anti-abortion) took up abortion as an issue to stir the political pot with.  I spent the first 21 years of my life as a Southern Baptist evangelical, and I can't think of ONCE that abortion was ever mentioned as an issue of concern.  ("So-and-so had an abortion" might have been the extent, if even that.)  Grant you, I grew up in California, where southern evangelicalism has always been tainted with Californianism.  But all this makes me wonder at just how socially neutral it all was.  Get people saved.  Help them with their personal issues as need be.  Period.

Today, here, I'm sure it's different, because of the political currents infecting the average GOP world, religious or otherwise.  But I still wonder just how big a deal it is.  I work with someone who's a member of the local faux-Presbyterian wannabe Modern Evangelical Megachurch thingee, and if abortion is a big deal in that world, he'd surely tell me.