After Roe: A New Battlefield (2022)
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The Evolution of Abortion
Up to this point, abortion had been considered a mostly Catholic issue. So what changed? 1954, the Supreme Court said Black children would go to school with white. The South said, never. After segregation was banned across the country, some evangelical leaders in the South, like Jerry Falwell, had set up private schools that were segregated and tax-exempt. But around the time of Roe, that tax-exempt status was revoked on the grounds that those schools were discriminatory. For some evangelicals, abortion became that cause.
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