After all, rights don't do us much good if we're not alive to enjoy them. That's the problem with candidates who sound good because of all the rights they want to promote, but won't let people be born to enjoy them. To choose to take away a baby's life by abortion is to take away all that baby's present and future rights. Government has no authority to do that.
Government exists, instead, to secure the rights of the people.
The US Bishops have given us important guidance on how to evaluate the issues in electoral races. We rightly pride ourselves on how we protect our children. Yet we have failed to protect the 4000 children who are destroyed every day in America by abortion. Every baby whom it was legal to kill in 1973 after the Roe vs. Wade decision can still be killed in America today. If we can't protect little babies from being dismembered by abortion, it is foolish to think we will make any other kind of meaningful progress for building a better society.