“Reagan thought he had a pro-lifer in O’Connor, just as he also thought he had a pro-lifer in Justice Anthony Kennedy, a still greater disappointment.”
Yeah right...the man legalized abortion in California before Roe vs. Wade. It’s naive to believe he ever became a pro life.
Before Reagan even considered legalizing abortion in Cali before Roe v Wade, he was told the classic Planned Parenthood lie.....it wasnt a baby, just “masses of protoplasm” and “bunches of cells.”
Abortions would only be done in “rare instances” .... when the life of the mother was at stake.....or pregnancy resulting from rape.
Reagan and the rest of America had no inkling Planned Parenthood....masters
of deceit.....would be celebrating abortion on demand up to nine months today.
“”” It’s naive to believe he ever became a pro life.””””
Reagan was never pro-abortion, I hope we don’t have to go through all the mess we did when the pro-Romney crowd was pushing that idea to protect Romney.
To: mowells2
There is no single issue making one a conservative, but there are some positions that absolutely will knock one out of the running. Abortion being one. If Reagan was an abortionist, then no conservative should ever have voted for him. But, obviously, he was pro-life and conservatives overwhelmingly supported him. Still do.
476 posted on 1/31/2008, 6:18:08 PM by Jim Robinson
He signed a bill legalizing so-called “therapeutic abortion” (only permitted in cases where the mother’s life was in danger), and only after a provision was dropped that permitted them in the case of birth defects. And JFTR, this was one of those “bipartisan” bills in the CA legislature.
Try not to tell half the story.