You do have a point. I recall that even before RvW, church leaders would quietly steer women with unplanned pregancies to an abortionist, much like a doctor would. It was after the societal changes in the '70s, such as the rise of the women's liberation and free love movement, the reaction to the fall of the conservative movement in the failure of Barry Goldwater's attempt at the presidency and later, the wake of Watergate, and Jimmy Carter's reach out to the evangelicals, whom Reagan would later steal from him in the '80 election, did this ever really become an issue.
After all, the abortion issue is very much a control issue, not only over women, who've gained in power in the past 30-40 years, but also minorities: one doesn't have to go far to hear a pundit like Bill Bennett mouth off saying that crime would go down if more blacks had abortions or some Fox News tool say that white women need to breed more white babies.
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Date: 2007-01-23 07:15 am (UTC)After all, the abortion issue is very much a control issue, not only over women, who've gained in power in the past 30-40 years, but also minorities: one doesn't have to go far to hear a pundit like Bill Bennett mouth off saying that crime would go down if more blacks had abortions or some Fox News tool say that white women need to breed more white babies.