Paul Ryan's back on the abortion circuit.It'll blow up in his face if he runs in 2016.
I dunno, abortion is a huge can of worms, and I don't think it's really at all like gay marriage; there are no good, consistent reasons to oppose gay marriage, but there are consistent (whether or not they're good I shall leave as an exercise to the reader) reasons to oppose abortion. And unlike gay marriage, where people generally only change their position once (to support gay marriage), people's take on abortion changes both ways. (I think this is because gay marriage doesn't trigger any zero-sum thinking; allowing gays to marry doesn't detract from heterosexual couples and does all the world for gay ones. But abortion does: on one side, the opposition is going to kill children; on the other, the opposition wants to take away women's right to choose. As well, abortion is more personal; people will change their position on gay marriage because they know gays, but they'll change their position on abortion because they know someone who was raped, or had a fetus with a horrible defect, or had an abortion that was really traumatizing, etc.)
Then, too, I think pro-lifers would get a lot more respect if they opposed abortion because they were in fact pro-life, and were also anti-war, pro-education, pro-adoption, pro-healthcare, anti-capital punishment, etc. But they're not, so it's obvious they're opposed to it because they're misogynistic fuckwits.