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I think the term “reductionist solution voters” is really helpful. I also wonder if there’s a moral logic to such voters that’s as simple as ‘whoever is willing to call abortion evil and claim to desire its illegality holds the moral high ground and thus has my vote’. https://twitter.com/tisaiahcho/status/1278060697683922950">https://twitter.com/tisaiahch...
The issue is not processed or argued based on actual reductions in the number of abortions (a complex utilitarian consideration), but the defense of a moral conviction about right and wrong (a more straightforward virtue consideration).
And no voter who believes abortion (in all or most cases) to be a kind of evil is going to lightly give their vote to a group that celebrates abortion as a virtuous expression of empowerment and autonomy.
Even if that party through social programs, education/healthcare funding, and other means could reduce the abortion rate, the voters I’m describing will have a hard time seeing that as a moral victory, when the principle and definition of the virtue has been lost.
In a “lose the battle to win the war” mentality, some voters will view the greater goal as a shift in the moral consciousness and values of the culture (an alignment with the idea that abortion is evil)
and the lesser goal as reducing abortion rates (which may as well be irrelevant to the consideration of what we venerate and villify as a culture).
To some this is just common sense, moral priority voting— and logical too: the shift in values should precede the shift in practice... right?
But to others, this is a simplistic and illogical framing of the issue that neglects the actual outcomes and causes of the practice, and prides itself on an unwarranted sense of moral superiority that’s irrespective of actual moral action.
Because of this paradigm paralysis, we’ve got 2 parties increasingly polarized, increasingly trying to stake a claim at moral high ground, and increasingly frustrated and frustratingly unable to communicate across the divide. Just some thoughts for your next thanksgiving 
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1 more thing: my goal in this thread is not to make claims about who’s right. Just an analysis of a certain kind of voter’s moral reasoning and a synopsis of 2 stalemated paradigms
