KEN SAMUEL’S POSITION ON ABORTION IS IRRELEVANT
I understand that abortion is a life or death issue — literally. The idea of murdering human beings, particularly pure innocent human beings that have never done anything wrong, is unforgivable to the members of Pro Life. In their minds, overturning Roe vs. Wade is not just important. It is critical.
However, an issue of perhaps even greater importance is human death in general. The number of unborn people that die every day pales in comparison to the number of born people who die each day. In fact, it’s highly likely that I will die and so will you. Wouldn’t we want our president to oppose human death? Why don’t we ask the candidates where they stand on this issue?
But of course, the President of the United States does not have the power to bring an end to human death. It’s not that he/she doesn’t care about this issue. It’s just that, when voting for president, this issue is completely irrelevant.
I claim that the same is true for the issue of abortion. Regardless of how critically important this issue is, when voting for president, it is practially completely irrelevant. The president cannot make abortion legal or illegal.
Okay. The president might be able to indirectly have an effect on the legality of abortion through the selection of Supreme Court judges. But he/she only has that power when there is an opening in the Supreme Court, which rarely happens. Most presidents don’t get to appoint any Supreme Court judges, so they have as much power over abortion as they do over human death.
In summary, given how irrelevant abortion is to the presidency, it makes no sense to vote based on that issue. And to vote based solely on that issue is foolish.