Since most think the Mother should choose. Not a bunch of people who are not willing to help support the fetus once it becomes an infant, toddler, preschooler...
How did the GOP go from the party of small government to the party of government control?
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I think you have to look at the history of pro life attitudes beginning with Roe v. Wade. Prior to that, many conservatives were pro choice, within the context of that time.
--Hiram
Must have been before the Religious Right took over...
When Roe v. Wade came down, the religious right was hardly unified on the matter of abortion. the current position is the result of decades of evolution. Ronald Reagan was pro choice when he was governor of California.
--Hiram
Something I have always suspected was that many pro life people were opposed to abortion but without any plan beyond that. They didn't think about how an anti abortion position to good be put into law and what the consequences would be. My guess is that they thought there wouldn't be any legal consequences at all. The overturning of Roe v. Wade changed all that, of course. Now pro life couldn't just be negative, they had to come up with practical alternatives. Another problem for them is that in their obsession with Roe, they became too entangled with politics, and ended up distancing themselves from the underlying moral issues. They were forced to ally themselves with morally questionable figures, who were using them for their own political advantage. The Roe reversal exposed that.
--Hiram
Agreed.
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