Please post a link to the Reagan video where he campaigned on the culture of death platform:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4
Until you can provide the evidence, I’ll thank you not to sully the Reagan reputation in a vain attempt to bolster an abortionist candidate.
Did you vote for President Reagan or was this single issue a deal breaker for him as-well?
The last thing I want is to get into the middle of this argument, but this was posted to FR, a National Review article, hardly a liberal publication:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957829/posts
“But honest discussions of Reagan’s record on the abortion issue admit that as California governor he signed into law a liberalization of abortion that led to an explosion of abortions in the nation’s largest state. Reagan critics and supporters alike recognize this fact — one that is particularly tough to swallow for staunch pro-lifers. The full story, however, is more complicated — and worth setting straight now, 35 years after Roe v. Wade.
On June 14, 1967, Ronald Reagan signed the Therapeutic Abortion Act, after only six months as California governor. From a total of 518 legal abortions in California in 1967, the number of abortions would soar to an annual average of 100,000 in the remaining years of Reagan’s two terms — more abortions than in any U.S. state prior to the advent of Roe v. Wade. Reagan’s signing of the abortion bill was an ironic beginning for a man often seen as the modern father of the pro-life movement
When the issue surfaced in the first months of his governorship, Reagan was unsure how to react. Surprising as it may seem today, in 1967 abortion was not the great public issue that it is today. Reagan later admitted that abortion had been “a subject I’d never given much thought to.” Moreover, his aides were divided on the question.”