Personal principles should guide ballot choices

Ballots are out and we must choose between deeply flawed candidates. Choose the lesser of evils? While questions of personality/character are important, they never invalidate our responsibility to vote. Everyone must consider his/her personal principles — non-negotiables — against the policy proposals of every candidate. My list of deal-breakers follows.

Abortion on Demand. Life begins at conception — unquestioned. By the time pregnancy is known, differing DNAs declare “it’s my body” only a partial truth. (Most abortions? Not healthcare.)

Supreme Court Appointments. Law is codified morality –...