Question For Fred & Other Pro-Choice People

[Dill]

(09-10-2021, 04:36 PM)BigPapaKain Wrote: Which of course is bullshit; you can't have rights unless you have a SS card according to the (far) right. So then they try and use the Bible as a reason, which is also bullshit because the Bible says life begins at birth and has pretty good instructions on terminating an unwanted pregnancy.

They're actually just really bad at the whole argument.

What I find interesting is the history of Protestant "pro-life" movements.

Even Evangelicals were indifferent to the topic--until the Civil Rights movement.

Jerry Falwell et. al. came down hard on the pro-life side after Roe vs Wade,
but before that that they seemed to think, Clinton style, that abortions should be
legal and rare. And of course allowable in cases of rape or incest. 

I'm risking a post hoc here, but I find it odd that the religious right became so INTENSE about
abortion in the post-Nixon re-alignment of Southern politics. 

I'm wondering if it was a way to create a new moral high ground, after support for segregation collapsed.