Posted on 01/24/2016 6:06:05 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
Historians have a favorite saying: "The past is like a foreign country." When we travel there, we meet people who think and act very differently. We return home with a new perspective, recognizing how much we take for granted, how much is far from inevitable.
For a powerful illustration of this truth, look no further than Daniel K. Williams's masterful new book, Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade (Oxford University Press). When readers turn the final page, they may feel like they have visited not just a different country, but a different universe.
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Then one party (mostly) sold out for votes.
There was a time when most the Bushes in the White House were pro-choice.
Not Barbara or Laura, I later learned, after their husbands’ administrations were finished.
I was there in 70. It is much as he describes. Country Club Republicans hated paying for the babies of the overly fertile and poor. Dems were more sympathetic. But Catholics were predominantly Dems. Gradually, the Catholic pro-lifers moved to Republican side. Cafeteria Catholics stayed with the Dems and became more Dem than Catholic. That included the Catholic Hierarchy. Not any different now.
Oops, I misread your comment as “pro-life”, not “pro-choice”. Sorry.
Pre-Roe abortion was very low priority as a political issue, at least in Chicago. Planned Parenthood operated out of a mainline church sponsored settlement house. Pro-abort social workers referred teens to it. The general attitude of the social work community was that these teens (mostly Hispanic in my area, but a few Blacks and whites) were not fit to have children and should focus on becoming feminists.
The big debate was over the fact that the guy who ran the local PP would tell teens that they couldn’t get more pregnant than they already were. So they should take advantage and enjoy as much sex as possible. He had sex with many of them. He referred them to parties at a place on the lakefront where rich people who donated to PP partied and liked it when the teens showed their appreciation for the rich guys paying for their abortion.
G.H.W. Bush was pro-choice when running for president in 1980. He switched to pro-life to get on the ticket with Reagan.
G.H.W. Bush had no real pro-life convictions. It was just politically expedient for him to say that he was.
It’s also important to remember that G.H.W. Bush’s father, the late former senator Prescott Bush, was the first ever treasurer of the group that later became known as Planned Parenthood.
Henry Wade was a democrat. And he lost a congressional race to a Republican in the 1950s, lest anyone try to argue that all successful southern politicians of that era were democrats.
Geez. Worse than here . Arizona had M. Sanger herself starting clinics with Peggy Goldwater as a donor and board member as I remember.
Geez. Worse than here . Arizona had M. Sanger herself starting clinics with Peggy Goldwater as a donor and board member as I remember.
BUMP.
A better term.
Remember the one time at band camp when there was a Democrat President who wanted to cut taxes? Yeah you saw what they did to him!
What an awesome insight! That you for sharing that here.
Words have power. That one change causes an incredibly powerful change in perspective.
Let’s get this out to pro-life spokespeople and organizations,
There’s something really fishy here:
The review seems to say that the book seems to say that when the pro-life movement was “liberal,” it was about protecting the unborn—but after Roe, the movement became “conservative,” and THEN it was a “backlash against individual rights.”
This sounds like the pro-aborts’ description of the “anti-abortion rights” movement: i.e., that it’s all about oppressing women.
> When Being Pro-Life Didn’t Make You a Republican
More like:
Why Being a Republican Doesn’t Make You Pro-Life
Not only will they not put an end to the crimes of Planned Parenthood and Stem Express - they insist upon giving them tax subsidies.
And they want my vote!
But now being a RAT makes you a baby-killer by default.
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