Sorry comrade but conservatives are more evolutionary than libs.
You mention human progress and evolution in the same sentence.
Funny, that.
Evolution is cold, cruel & calculated. Logical. Evolution is lift yourself up by bootstraps... not endless tax payer funded handouts to exist.
Liberals are emotionals who give in to child stranglers like Lindsay Clancy with profuse excuses while conservatives want the bitch ended yesterday.
Lincoln was a conservative. He wanted no one to be a slave. Liberals want to give "free" shit in perpetuity in order to keep indebted slaves in line for votes.
No one is promised anything but freedom. Life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness comes with no strings attached. It does not include proper pronouns, living wages & housing as human rights espoused by the nattering nabobs of negativism.
You mentioned principles. A principle is a fundamental truth.
I don't care about oppressors and opressed. Fundamental truth is we are equal because we are born with a brain to make decisions. We aren't bound to reactions. Evolution brought us here. By cold hard logic. Not handouts nor class warfare of bitching about billionaires.
Do or don't. Will or won't. Simple as.
If progress is humanity continuing to exist than abortion free & clear up until birth is antithetical to humanity. Evolution would not approve of abortion. Do you agree? Evolution would allow all life then trim & prune like a Final Destination movie. Evolution is not now nor will it ever be on the side of or a fan of pre kills.
Abortion is selfish. Evolution is selfless.
Probably best to not mention evolution as an asset in your future rants. Evolution is on the side of logic.