Why do people act like abortion is the most important issue in Senate elections?

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Some people think it's wrong to murder babies.

Some people think it's wrong to coerce birth.

If the moral question is framed with these constraints, it's pretty easy to decide between the two.

I have done some reasearch on the pre-Roe era and spoken with women who had friends that tried to get an illegal abortion during that time.  Needless to say, it is not an era I am interested in returning to.

My great aunt got an illegal abortion during the pre-Roe era. It was a very risky, dangerous procedure then. I'd much rather have abortion (such as it is with the huge amounts of restrictions put on it these days) laws today than back then.

If anything, abortion laws should be relaxed in a majority of states. Plus, the crazy protestors outside of the abortion clinics screaming at the young women as they come in don't help any. RIP George Tiller.

Thank you for that story.  I agree, the situation is better today.

Not that anyone really cares, but I am only alive because abortion was illegal in 1959. My grandmother actively sought out to abort my mom, but couldn’t find one. If Governor Reagan had been around a few years earlier, my mom would have been killed before she was born and I would have never existed. I’m rather thankful abortion was (mostly) outlawed in the pre-Roe era.