Pro-life means saving all life. Pro-life means saving the unborn, helping the poor, and supporting immigration and human rights, the disabled and elderly rights and being against war and the death penalty.
The pastor often fails to tell the congregation the complete pro-life doctrines of the church, and so many think saving the unborn is the only doctrine. That leads them into being right-wing Christian voters with only that part of the doctrine told to them. You simply can’t tell me that you save babies and in the next breath call an unwed mother with a low-paying job who uses programs such as welfare a socialist.
I get tired of the wedge issues of pro-life against pro-choice and guns and their so-called better morals and values the right wing tries to flaunt. In 2016, President Trump was going to open steel mills and coal mines, and that didn’t work out, so in 2020 he is saving the policemen while they falsely say Democrats hate the police and support riots. That is why we get poor representation as a majority vote on wedge issues instead of discussing the candidates’ intelligence and abilities to lead all the people and be a president to all.
Wedge issues are not going to change, but poor leadership will continue voting on wedge issues.
Carol Badgley
Bovard