Amanda (Amanda Prestigiacomo)
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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Republicans' willingness to support legal abortion was intellectually consistent with their ideological priorities of individual rights, small government, and privacy and moral autonomy.
Republican Governor Rockefeller enacted New York's abortion on demand law in 1970 with a coded dig against the Catholic anti-abortion effort, saying, quote,
I do not believe it is right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.
Access to abortion also happened to align with Republicans preference for abortion over years of taxpayer funded support for poor women and children.
Abortion was not the partisan litmus test it is today.
After signing the most liberal abortion laws in the country, Rockefeller became the Republican vice president and then Reagan became the president.
So to review, the Catholic Church is still very upset about and fighting against abortion.
The feminists are fighting for safe access to abortion health care.
Republicans and Democrats have no line in the sand.
In fact, the General Social Survey opinion poll in 1977 found that Republicans even exceeded Democrats in saying that abortion should be allowed for any reason.
So it's not a partisan fight, nor is it an evangelical fight.
Evangelicals mainly stayed out of the political arena.
And when they did fray into the political realm on the topic of abortion, they were generally thinking things were pretty much a-okay.
Five years before Roe, in 1968, the flagship evangelical publication Christianity Today sponsored a symposium with the Christian Medical Society in which they refused to characterize abortion as a sin and identified justifications for ending a pregnancy, including individual health, family welfare, and social responsibility.
Jerry Falwell, like many prominent evangelical leaders, was Baptist.
The Southern Baptist Convention, America's largest Protestant denomination, had resolved a year before Roe to press for legislation allowing abortion in limited cases, reaffirming this position a year after Roe in 1974 and again in 1976.
When Roe was decided, W.A.
Criswell, the former president of the Southern Baptists, declared the convention's endorsement of the Roe v. Wade decision.
He said, "...I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person.
And it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed."
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