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« on: April 25, 2019, 12:37:37 PM » |
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It is hardly surprising that Roe was decided as it was. The plaintiff claimed to have been raped (as an aside, she later claimed she had lied about it, and became a born-again Christian and supporter of the right-to-life movement).
Everyone talks about Roe, but no one talks about Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), in which a lopsided majority of the Court found that Massachusetts (!) unconstitutionally violated married couples' right to privacy by banning artificial birth control for them. Seven years later, when Eisenstadt v. Baird extended that right to privacy to unmarried persons, barely a fuss was raised. The time seemed right for Roe to be decided as it was.
As for the RTL movement being Republican, yes, the GOP has succeeded, beginning in 1980, in winning the votes of single-issue pro-life voters. But it was not always this way. As recently as 1978, both Massachusetts and Michigan featured pro-life Democrats against pro-choice Republicans in their gubernatorial races.
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