text: Faithful,
  I don't think abortion was ever the issue. It was used a s a carrot and a stick to get we Catholics to vote for Reagan and the Repubs so that Pope John Paul II could get his private agenda fulfilled. That agenda was his all consuming goal to get Communism out of his native Poland. He succeeded at that but at a tremendously high cost to the American people and their born and unborn. 
  JPII and Reagan then went on to attack Communism,Socialism and unionism everywhere in the Latin nations AND in America. 
  This entire disastrous mess of war=death and destruction for godless, soulless, predatory Fascist Reagan Capitalism is THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM. 
  Repubs are believers in THINGS -- NOT people. If one reads the history of the GOP one can easily see that. The GOP has always been about: The Divine Right of Kings. In their America that has morphed into The Divine Right of The Super Rich aka Trickle-down economics. In the church that is The Divine Right of The Church and Canon Law.