Some voters for Donald Trump in 2016 were “single value” voters. That is, they may not have liked Trump, but only one value was important to them in that election. Anti abortionists were one such group.

However, in voting for Trump because he would appoint conservative judges to the Supreme Court, they elected someone who devalued life in other ways.

Trump went against the will of the U.S. Congress in selling weapons used in the war between Saudi Arabia and the country of Yemen. Saudi Arabia and Yemen have been locked in a power struggle involving Iran for years. The war has resulted in horrific starvation for Yemeni civilians.

The horror led both houses of Congress, including Democrats and Republicans, to vote against selling American weapons to Saudi Arabia for use in Yemen.

Trump claimed that the need for Saudis to have weapons for the war in Yemen was an emergency, though Congress plainly did not think so. Further, Trump said, American arms manufacturers needed the money. In declaring an emergency, Trump overrode the will of Congress.

Saudi Arabia used American weapons to bomb hospitals and marketplaces in Yemen and to cut off food supplies to that country. Yemen now is suffering mass starvation.

The question: Are babies killed in Yemen by American weapons less important than babies killed in abortion?

That is the problem with assuming one issue as the only one in a campaign. Moral issues are never simple. Believing one can be solved by one election can lead to horrific consequences.