Abortion as a Voting Issue

Conservatives have found a voter gold mine in the anti-abortion issue.

It is the type of issue that is ideal for the conservatives because it sways liberals into voting for the conservatives.

Outlawing abortion is an issue that is aimed straight at the bleeding heartstrings of a typical Kumbaya liberal who is all about protecting the poor and the weak. Once the liberals are hooked on the anti-abortion issue, it is possible to reel them in to vote for the conservative political party. Even though that is the party whose true concerns are to help the rich get richer and to build a military to crush anyone who rises against it.

A typical rich, militaristic conservative does not really care about the welfare of a fetus. Conservatives are the people who typically support the sale of assault weapons to the public. Conservatives also love landmines and cluster bombs, both of which kill and maim thousands of children for year after year. Conservatives never worry about fetuses being killed when they drop bombs on pregnant mothers. Have you ever heard of a collateral damage report that counted dead fetuses? Also, conservatives like the right to pollute the air and water, and as a result, more fetuses die.

But then why do conservative support a ban on abortion? Because this issue sucks in liberals to vote for the conservative political parties. Real conservatives never have to worry about back alley abortions. They just fly off to Europe. The only people who suffer from anti-abortion laws are the poor, and conservatives don't care about the welfare of the poor.

The liberals can't use the abortion issue, because unlike the conservatives, they are also concerned with the rights of the mother, and the rights of the poor. So although they may not like abortion, they cannot wish to punish every woman who wants an abortion without considering the reason.

With heaping dollops of propaganda, conservatives can convince many good hearted liberals that the only issue worth voting for is abortion, and that their jolly warmongering (but fetus loving) selves are the lesser of two evils.

The abortion debate is an example how propaganda can win elections by leveraging a one-way issue. Once you have found it never let it go. Think of how much better off the world would be today, if the conservatives had never stumbled across this voter gold mine.