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Hejiru posted...

I never even understood how abortion became a religious issue. Abortion is only mentioned once in the bible... where it gave instructions on how to do one.

It's just a vessel used to control people, always has been. It's always been a solid way to keep the peasants loyal without giving up any riches. Abortion just happened to be so convenient, that even if the Church wanted to appeal to young people and say they don't care anymore, like they did with gay marriage, the politics can branch off and hold on to it.

Back in my Catholic days the sentiment was explicitly in my youth group "it doesn't matter how terrible the politician is you have to vote for them if they are pro-life". So you a have a lot of young people who could have ended up being pro-union, pro-worker/environmentalism or whatever, but the only thing that will sway their vote is abortion. Then they are just going to rationalize those other things away to further justify their abortion vote.

The difference in this day and age is that it's actually socially acceptable to be an atheist and the grasp isn't so tight.