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Weekly Roundup: Abortion is a Religious Right

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The History of Abortion

The Southern Baptist Convention in the 70s had a resolution affirming broad ranging access to abortion. That is not the position of the SBC now, but just to make your point, that's a piece of convenient historical amnesia. If you could get conservative white Christians thinking that abortion was murder, you could win elections. The moral majority and the religious right figured this out with people like Francis Schafer.

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