How abortion could tip the scales in Alabama

[DonViejo]

BY BEN KAMISAR - 11/29/17 06:00 AM EST

Abortion has emerged as a firewall issue for Roy Moore in Alabama, where the embattled GOP Senate candidate is framing support for Democrat Doug Jones as a blow to the anti-abortion rights movement.

Abortion is a sensitive issue in Alabama, and one that favors Republicans. A 2014 poll by the Pew Research Center found 58 percent of those polled in Alabama say abortion should be illegal in most or all cases — higher than in all but three states in the country.

Sentiments are strong enough that Moore’s campaign believes voters will choose the anti-abortion rights Republican over Jones, who supports abortion rights, despite allegations that the Republican molested or sexually assaulted teenage girls decades ago.

Moore has seized on those sentiments as he seeks to save his campaign, moving to make abortion a central issue in the campaign.

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[Vinca]

1. While I respect a person's feelings when it comes to abortion, they are not "pro-life" when they

abandon children at birth. The same people genuflecting to Moore want to cut off health care, social services and education. Their religion considers the uterus an altar and once it's empty they start praying for it to be filled again.

[Zoonart]

2. The hypocrisy of the "religious" right is going to

break my brain. Forcing women to birth unwanted children, that these voters will then casually throw to the flames of cruel fortune, fanned by the draconian policies instituted by the very same politicians that are so sanctimonious in their "heroic" stance to "Save" these unborn children...I have no words.
Let's bring more unwanted defenseless poor children into the world to be abused by the likes of our heroic judge Moore. WTFF?
What about the babies that pedophiles put into the bellies of teenagers every year? Force them into the world too? These people are sick.
They have been brainwashed beyond all reason by a religion that bears very little resemblance to the Christian tradition I was brought up in.
Sorry for the rant. This is really hard to watch.