Remember the '64 election?
The primary fight between Goldwater and Rockefeller?
They were both pro abortion, there was no pro life wing of the party till Nixon's 'Southern Strategy' opened the door in '68.
So9
I would have to drag out my copies of "Conscience of a Conservative" and "A Choice Not An Echo" to check but I believe that Goldwater's conservatism had not in 1964 morphed into what became his peculiar brand of libertarianism.
As for Rockefeller, I cannot recall his views on abortion. In fact, I do not think that any candidate prior to the 1970's expressed views on the subject. Like so many subjects that the so-called "right to privacy" has shoehorned into our lives, abortion was simply not discussed, especially in a campaign for the presidency.
AUH20
Abortion wan't a public issue until Roe V Wade, when it was literally forced on the country by the Supreme Court.
I heard my first impassioned "it's only a blob of protplasm" back in '69. I was neither pro-life or pro-choice at that point.