Writing elsewhere Policraticus said,
In fact, the three [contributors of Vox Nova] who did vote for Obama were quite clear of their reasons, disavowing his abortion policies and hoping for a reduction in the number of abortions by way of his social policies. It is quite clear to me retrospectively that these members of Vox Nova made a poor judgment and were not correct in their predictions.
At this point, a brief retrospective of that decision seems appropriate. I can only think of one contributor off hand though that thought Obama’s election might lead to a reduction in abortion. Maybe there were two. I did not have that view though, and I thought I had made that clear. If I remember correctly, Policraticus declined to vote in protest.
My opinion was that in choosing between the election of John McCain and Barack Obama, the difference in advancement or decline of abortion policy would be trivial. As of today, the trivial gains of Bush have been repealed and no real advancement in the pro-abortion agenda has been made. As I stated in a variety of ways, the election was about the issues placed before us, and not the issues that we desired to be placed before us. In fairness, our nation was probably better for the fact that abortion wasn’t placed before us as an issue, because we would have most likely lost horribly. (See South Dakota at the local level.) This wasn’t the Miss America pageant where points are awarded for what we desire absent any connection to reality. Regrettably the pro-life movement has been reduced to throwing temper tantrums in the absence of a real agenda. They have cocooned themselves into believing that they are the only ones that care. Anyone that cares about health care, immigration, war, or even just how they are going to put food on the table and shelter over their heads isn’t just someone that is wrong about priorities, but a person that doesn’t care about the unborn. There are lessons to be learned, and I’m afraid that they aren’t being learned.
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