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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn the 70s, the anti-abortion cause was primarily a Catholic one, and strongest in Northern states
Dave Weigel RetweetedA 1969 poll by the Baptist Standard found 90% of Texas Baptists thought Texas abortion laws were *too restrictive*
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Walleye
(30,723 posts)They oversold it with hyperbole and lies and of course misogyny and now they have this monstrosity of a political faction that are never going to change because they are doing gods work of protecting little babies, they think.
CrispyQ
(36,226 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude%27s_Dilemma
snip...According to a 1992 Chicago Tribune article
The first showing of "Maude's Dilemma" was carried by all but two of CBS' nearly 200 affiliates and attracted nearly 7,000 letters of protest. By the time the shows were repeated, in August 1973, a campaign against them had been organized by the United States Catholic Conference. The reruns were broadcast, but nearly 40 affiliates chose not to air them, not one corporate sponsor bought commercial time, and CBS received more than 17,000 letters of protest.
The Chicago Tribune[2]
tanyev
(42,360 posts)To be fair, at the time of the Roe decision there were a few, very few, evangelical extremists who only mildly criticized the ruling. For the most part the overwhelming response was silence, even approval. In particular, evangelical fundamentalists applauded the decision as an appropriate articulation of the division between church and state, and between personal morality and state regulation of individual behavior. W. Barry Garrett wrote in the Baptist Press that, Religious liberty, human equality and justice are advanced by the Supreme Court abortion decision.
During a symposium sponsored by the Christian Medical Society and the so-called flagship magazine of the entire evangelical movement, Christianity Today refused to characterize abortion as sinful, citing individual health, family welfare, and social responsibility as adequate justifications for ending a pregnancy.
It took a full six years (1979) for the religious right leadership to abandon its pro-choice position and summarily obey the Vatican, the Heritage Foundation and its so-called Moral Majority founder Paul Weyrich. The religious right extremist Weyrich convinced evangelical clergy to seize on abortion as a Republican cause célèbre and rallying cry to deny President Jimmy Carter a second term.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/8/1863445/-When-the-religious-right-was-pro-choice-evangelicals-applauded-Roe-v-Wade
LeftInTX
(24,554 posts)They never were pro-contraception for unmarried women..
They were concerned that Roe v Wade would cause more single woman to have sex
However, it was not a pro-life issue for them, but a morality issue. They just kinda stayed out of it because it was a "Catholic thing" and didn't want to be aligned with Catholics.
I agree with the rest of the article, but I really can't envision them ever being pro-choice.
Evangelicals did support contraception for married women and certainly weren't into this quiver full garbage back then.