like scoring in quidditch

For those who suffer from abortion monomania [click], the mental arithmetic is like scoring in quidditch. There is a universe of issues. In Catholic theology there are many moral, ethical, and justice issues. Some come into contact with the secular political world. Abortion is one such.

J.K. Rowling, invented, and inserted into her Harry Potter novels the wizardly game of quidditch. In that game, each team defends three goals. If an opponent puts the ball through a goal it scores ten points. There is another ball, a small feathered ball, the golden snitch. Catching the ball is worth 150 points, and ends the game.  It is virtually impossible to gain the snitch, and lose. That is the design of the invented game. In her stories only once did the catcher of that ball lose the game.

Scoring all the goals is not of prime importance:  e.g. the situation when one team has scored 14 goals, and the other team has not scored one, nor does not even attempt to score a goal, so that the score is 140 to 0, which in some other games would have triggered a mercy rule to end the game, so as to avoid the ridiculous lopsided victory, would not come into play here. That captured snitch would make the score 140 to 150, and the clock would have ended. 

In stated, official American Catholic bishops' rationale in voting, abortion is very important in consideration  to support a candidate; but there are circumstances of great importance where that position is not decisive. Ultra conservative Catholic bishops, and their flocks are playing philosophical quidditch, and they start with the possession of the snitch in their pocket.