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Part of the reason it wasn't a very big issue pre-Roe v Wade is that on-demand abortions were illegal in 46 states prior to it.


"In 1971, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, passed a resolution encouraging “Southern Baptists to work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother.” The convention, hardly a redoubt of liberal values, reaffirmed that position in 1974, one year after Roe, and again in 1976." https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-ri...


There is an enormous amount of nuance in that statement. The real change that occurred was that nuance evaporated from the discussion of the subject.




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