[Mrs. Don-o]

"Those who opposed [abortion] from a religious stance did so, not primarily to protect human life, but to ensure that promiscuity and adultery would always have the potential consequence of pregnancy."

I know you're talking about 40 - 50 years ago, but I'm old enought to remember some of this, and I have never encountered anyone --- not even by reading historic annals of the early opponents of abortion -- who opposed abortion in order to retain the use of pregnancy as a deterrent to illicit sex.

Most of the 19th century pro-lifers were doctors and/or feminists, and almost all of the 1960-1980 pro-lifers were Catholics. Who, of the early pro-lifers, opposed abortion to curb promiscuity rather than to protect human life?? Not Susan B. Anthony, not Elizabeth Cady Stanton; not Nellie Gray, Brent& Pat Bozell (Sr.), Jack & Sheila Kippley, John & Barbara Willke, Jow & Ann Scheidler, Michael Schwartz, Jo McGowan, Joan Andrews, the Catholic Bishops, the Catholic Family Life Office.

Any generalization must comprise specific instances. Can you name one specific example or instance? Do you have any factual foundation?

I'm interested in the history.

[cartoonistx]

I didn’t mean to imply that no one on the antiabortion side was concerned about the life of the unborn but that many religious folk were much more concerned about abortion’s (and contraception’s) effect on America’s sexual morality and the effect of promiscuity upon marriage and family.Sorry, but I can’t cite any documents supporting what I experienced personally.