Then one party (mostly) sold out for votes.
There was a time when most the Bushes in the White House were pro-choice.
I was there in 70. It is much as he describes. Country Club Republicans hated paying for the babies of the overly fertile and poor. Dems were more sympathetic. But Catholics were predominantly Dems. Gradually, the Catholic pro-lifers moved to Republican side. Cafeteria Catholics stayed with the Dems and became more Dem than Catholic. That included the Catholic Hierarchy. Not any different now.
Henry Wade was a democrat. And he lost a congressional race to a Republican in the 1950s, lest anyone try to argue that all successful southern politicians of that era were democrats.
BUMP.
A better term.
Remember the one time at band camp when there was a Democrat President who wanted to cut taxes? Yeah you saw what they did to him!
There’s something really fishy here:
The review seems to say that the book seems to say that when the pro-life movement was “liberal,” it was about protecting the unborn—but after Roe, the movement became “conservative,” and THEN it was a “backlash against individual rights.”
This sounds like the pro-aborts’ description of the “anti-abortion rights” movement: i.e., that it’s all about oppressing women.
> When Being Pro-Life Didn’t Make You a Republican
More like:
Why Being a Republican Doesn’t Make You Pro-Life
Not only will they not put an end to the crimes of Planned Parenthood and Stem Express - they insist upon giving them tax subsidies.
And they want my vote!
But now being a RAT makes you a baby-killer by default.