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After Roe: A New Battlefield (2022)

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The Rise of the Republican Party

In 1976, the Republican Party put an anti-abortion plank on their platform. It's important to note that these activists are not Republican from the very beginning. They really realized pretty early that they need a party as a vehicle for their politics. John F Kennedy, the country's first Catholic president, had been a Democrat.

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