Exploring the history of abortion in the United States – PBS NewsHour

Jennifer Holland:

Catholics and evangelicals and also Mormons, they fundamentally disagreed, not only disagreed about theology, but believed they each of them believed that they had the monopoly on religious truth.

But they really are able to link themselves through abortion politics, and saying that they are linked by something called Judeo-Christian values, which the anti-abortion movement resuscitates as an idea in the '70s to sort of cover this idea that all Christians, of course, oppose abortion, and they always have. And, of course, that was a manufactured idea of this movement, because religious people had been very openly supporting abortion, and very recently.

And they knew that wasn't true. In the late '70s, '80s and '90s, you have Republicans acknowledge the power of this voting base. The movement has been incredibly good at developing a constituency for whom no other issue matters. Not any other issue matters as much as this issue.

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