I remember posting to this effect on about 25 threads when the Rooty Rooters were active.
At the time Reagan signed the bill, nobody had the faintest idea what kind of atrocities were about to be committed in the name of “life and health of the mother.” The people at NARAL and NOW knew what was coming, and Justice Brennan knew what was coming, but the country was caught sleeping by the Culture of Death.
Another factor was that the Democrat majority in the Cali legislature was threatening to pass an even worse bill. Reagan thought he was doing the best he could. There is no way on earth that he could imagine what kind of evil was about to descend on our country.
Very true, there was NO WAY that Reagan knew in the late 1960s that the culture of death was planning the wholesale slaughter of an entire generation of 50 MILLION INNOCENT AMERICANS.