are YOU claiming they were always against abortion?
lMao!!!! you are clueless.
HISTORY DEPT.
The Religious Right and the Abortion Myth
By RANDALL BALMER
05/10/2022 03:24 PM EDT
White evangelicals in the 1970s didn’t initially care about abortion. They organized to defend racial segregation in evangelical institutions — and only seized on banning abortion because it was more palatable than their real goal.
...White evangelicals in the 1970s did not mobilize against
Roe v. Wade, which they considered a Catholic issue. They organized instead to defend racial segregation in evangelical institutions, including Bob Jones University.
To suggest otherwise is to perpetrate what I call the abortion myth, the fiction that the genesis of the Religious Right — the powerful evangelical political movement that has reshaped American politics over the past four decades — lay in opposition to abortion.
The Religious Right and the Abortion Myth
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