Friday, October 28, 2022
Mehmet Oz-John Fetterman debate's alarming abortion quote
As Dartmouth professor Randall Balmer, author of "Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right," outlined in Politico after Roe v. Wade was overturned, anti-abortion sentiment did not become a central issue for conservative evangelical leaders until after the 1978 midterms, five years after Roe and amidst efforts by the IRS to rescind the tax-exempt status of church-sponsored whites-only segregation academies. Before the late '70s, abortion had largely been considered a Catholic issue, and many evangelical leaders even actively supported the legalization of abortion. That changed when a group of men, considered the architects of the religious right, discovered how anti-abortion sentiment could be used to turn out white voters...
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