No one was talking in public about abortion until about 1966. It makes no sense to bring up abortion in connection with JFK—i.e., as a political matter.
Oh, I dunno.
My Mom knew Margaret Sanger, came to my parent’s wedding.
She was making noise about it back then. Pre-’66.
Lots of Republican women were in favor of it then, less so now.
Kennedy ran as a Catholic, which in retrospect is hilarious.
In 1960, even breathing a faint acceptance of abortion would be fatal to any Catholic candidate.
The push for it was on the Republican side - from upper Northeast Rockefeller Republicans who sided with women’s rights advocates.