Abortion As A Single Issue Voting Litmus

Alan: My commentary (immediately below) is in response to a Patheos article by David Armstrong linked at the bottom of this post.
Mr. Armstrong's article is titled: "15 Reasons Why Trump Wins Again In November."

Alan: Thomas Aquinas counseled: "Beware the man of one book." Aquinas' view on "one book" can be truthfully re-stated: "Beware the voter of one issue." (Mr. Armstrong is forthright about abortion as his one issue of transcendental importance.) Notably, Aquinas also pointed out that one of three "dispositions" which always accompany sin is "loss of perspective/proportion." The necessary "proportionality of contextualization" tells us that there are now fewer abortions per capita in the United States than there were on the eve of Roe v. Wade. The assumption that outlawing abortion will result in fewer abortions appears to be false, no matter how appealing the simplicity of wishful thinking. In many countries, abortion rates are higher where abortion is illegal; where sex education is condemned; and where acqusition of birth control is surrounded by the imposition of social shame.

"Abortion"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/abortion.html

Taking a page from Trump's own playbook, I will double down and posit that the proscription of abortion in these United States will result in a HIGHER abortion rate. So if you want per capita abortion to increase, subscribe to Mr. Armstrong's "single issue" decision-making come November. But remember. If you do decide to cast your ballot on the sole basis of abortion, Aquinas (the foremost Doctor of the Church... and a fellow who did not consider abortion to be "homicide" until after the first trimester) was emphatically against "loss of proportion and perspective." https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/st-thomas-aquinas-c-1225-1274

"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America

"https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/their-is-neither-nobility-nor-kindness.html

"15 Reasons Why Trump Wins Again In November"

Dave Armstrong

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2020/07/15-reasons-why-trump-wins-again-in-nov-2020.html#disqus_thread