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Okay, I'll humor you. There was a time when you had a chance to get into your preferred college based on your grades and accomplishments. You work hard and you have a chance to reach your goal.....a traditional value.......work hard.....be rewarded. Now, your skin color is a major determination with many universities. Here's another one.....real simple.....we honor the value of life. Now we have a political party that is ok with "having a discussion" to determine if a newborn baby makes it to another day. There you go......take it and run.
Thanks, I have a meeting, so this will have to be truncated until later. Regarding affirmative action, you are ignoring massive inequality of opportunity, which it is meant to address. There is something about "pursuit of happiness" which calls for efforts to in some ways acknowledge great inequality, especially when it is exacerbated by government policy. I would much prefer affirmative action based on socio-economic factors, until it was shown that opportunity was largely equal (to the extent practical). Of course, if you endlessly ignore obvious patterns regarding inequality of opportunity, affirmative action based on any non-merit criteria is wrong (whether by race or any other factor).
Regarding abortion, we also honor freedom and choice. There is the crux of the issue. I think that abortion should be largely legal AND very rare. I have little problem with limiting late-term abortions. However, the core of the pro-life movement opposes birth control (including RU486), and that is where I split ways with you, I favor freedom in that case. In both instances you listed, you only look at one side of the coin. I am fine examining both, and trying to balance them