Do you consider yourself pro-life or pro-choice?

[Santander]

Personally pro-life, politically pro-choice. Used to be the opposite.

[Santander]

Personally pro-life, politically pro-choice. Used to be the opposite.

Could you expand on your rationale when you were opposite?

I consider elective abortions to be a lifestyle choice, not healthcare, so the state has the right to ban them. I thought it was better to err on the side of caution on the morality. I evolved to be politically pro-choice for purely pragmatic reasons - abortions will happen anyway, so it is better for them to be conducted in a safe manner and leave the moral dilemma to the individual.

[Santander]

We've got no proof souls exist and fetuses aren't human, therefore "pro-life" is a false dichotomy.

There is no non-religious justification for banning abortion.

After a certain point, the only difference between a fetus and a baby is that one is inside the mother's body and the other is outside, so this is a ridiculous thing to say.

[Santander]

The two most prominent Democrats at the moment, Biden and Pelosi, are both Catholics. You have to go pretty far down the Republican pecking order to find a Catholic. (Steve Scalise, I guess?)

William Barr.
Also John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh are arguably *very* important and prominent Catholic Republicans.

Sure, and Fox News under Roger Ailes was very Catholic, too. But what I was trying to get at was that if the GOP is a Catholic identity party, why aren't Catholics holding the top elected positions?