[sittnick]

Reagan signed a bill making abortion legal only in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother.

Clarification, HEALTH of the mother, not life. At that time (1968) it was not clear how easily this exception could be abused. Reagan regretted the signing very shortly after it was enacted and worked to repeal while governor.

[dirtboy]

Thanks for the clarification.

[Liz]

The abortion worshippers never mention the context in which Gov Reagan signed the 1967 California Therapeutic Abortion Act....(which he later said he regretted signing). (Source: Right to Life history).

At the time Reagan signed The Therapeutic Abortion Act---- it was the Stone Age of abortion "rights," years before the USSC unleashed Roe v Wade in 1973.

Back in 1967, the Planned Parenthood savages were telling an alarmed populace that abortions would only be performed---and very reluctantly, at that----in the direst of circumstances----rape, incest, health/life of the mother.

Reagan apparently secured those assurances before signing the Act. (Source: Right to Life history).

PP's lies about abortion persist. We now know Planned Parenthood and the NARAL crowd all along plotted:
(1) abortion on demand with the govt picking up the tab,
(2) abortion as birth control,
(3) multiple abortions for convenience,
(4) abortion when sex of the child is unwanted,
(5) abortion for every conceivable birth defect.....and last but certainly not least,
(6) late term partial birth abortions (read infanticide).

God knows what these savages will unleash should their acolyte, Rooty Giuliani, sit at the levers of government.