"Single-Issue" Catholic Voter

A few short blurbs that deserve expansion, but were pulled from the "drafts" file and posted anyway...

As a Catholic I am usually pegged as being a single-issue voter. It is usually assumed by people I talk with that I will blindly pick whichever candidate advertised themselves as being the "most pro-life/anti-abortion" candidate. Perhaps this was the case years ago, but even now I would feel myself tugged to vote the same way. My choice now, however, would be the result of careful thought and study about what would ultimately be at stake. Respect for each individual life is what acts as the basis for the validation of all of other rights. Without such a fundamental respect for life nothing else really matters.

Addendum: To make this more current, I'm glad to see plans to cut funding for Planned Parenthood. Some will probably cry out about "all the good" they do aside from abortions and that no federal dollars were ever spent on abortions, but that doesn't change the fact that it is basically a eugenics program whose founder espoused some extremely vile ideas. If people want such an organization to survive it will have to do so without federal help.