It’s absurd and respectfully, it might be cruel and yet, this is the daily reasoning we hear.
You summed it up well.
The new Lincoln movie, I haven’t seen it but Tommy Lee Jones plays a politician who is a total abolitionist, But Lincoln’s reasoning I believe that to go North you may have to go East or West first. This is similar. People who use this other reasoning to me, are not being pragmatic or one might even question their motivations as being sincere. As it is Romney/Ryan stuck their necks out for us along with a pledge to defund planned parenthood.
At lifesitenews now, Planned Parenthood in a story claims credit for getting Obama reelected.
lifenews.com/2012/11/19/planned-parenthood-takes-credit-for-re-electing-obama/
And PPH ran anti-Romney commercials.