Uh....I assume you know that Goldwater was pro-choice.
ROFLOL!! That is one problem on here -- some Freepers speak before knowing anything about a former candidate or office holder. They assume if someone was Conservative they must be a social conservative -- wrong assumption.
I don't think abortion was an issue in 1964 and Goldwater was silent until later years.
Abortion was not an issue when Goldwater ran for President. He may have moved left on social issues in his declining years, but people were not factoring those issues into whether to vote for him in 1964.
I doubt Goldwater would be for partial birth abortion though. Anyone who condones such 'murder most foul' falls foul with me. For the record, I'm agnostic about early or first trimester abortions when the embryo hasn't developed enough to suffuse with a 'soul' yet perhaps. But late trimester abortions, I know, I am dead against.