[xzins]

Just so you know, and this is a fact: In the 80's, he (President Reagan) urged people to vote for a bill he said he would sign that included the exception of the health of the mother, then when the purists were winning on the GOP side, he chided them with his famous "Don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good" speech.

Please provide a link to that information. I've looked high and low and can't find it even mentioned anyplace at all.

[Lakeshark]

Zins, sorry but I don't have a link because it came from my memory and not something I read recently.

I clearly remember when this happened because Reagan was my first vote ever for president, I was a newly minted pro-lifer (meaning the official cause) as well and I followed the news fairly regularly. It was so startling to me when the bill failed, I think it was the only time pro-life legislation could have been passed before or since and it was an attempt to overturn Roe V Wade.

I don't remember if his speech was exhorting pro-lifers to change their purist tactics or because he was so disappointed that they had already failed in doing so.