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Since we’re talking Long Game here, a little history might be in order.  After all one thing leads to another.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8274866

Womens Health Issues. 1993 Fall;3(3):127-31.

“The politics of abortion: a historical perspective.”

McKeegan M1.

Author information, Six Rivers Planned Parenthood, Eureka, CA.

Abstract

An analysis of the capture of the Republican party and the national agenda from the late 1970s into the 1990s by a coalition of political and religious conservatives.

PIP:

Paradoxically, as Americans became increasingly pro-choice, 2 anti-abortion Presidents were elected to serve for 12 years and pro-life forces captured the domestic agenda by overhauling the traditionally libertarian Republican party.

This occurred because Republican analysts saw that the Democratic New Deal coalition was cracking, the traditionally conservative south and west began to control more seats in the House of Representatives, and Americans were becoming more affluent and, thus, more interested in taxes and inflation.

Efforts were made to bring social conservatives, especially pro-lifers, into the Republican party with scare tactics used in the wording of direct mailings. In the late 1970s, fundamentalist Christians became outraged by Supreme Court decisions banning school prayer and legalizing abortion and by Jimmy Carter’s decision to withdraw tax-exempt status from segregated church schools.

This group was mobilized by radio and television preachers, especially televangelist Jerry Falwell who also used scare tactics to promote his Moral Majority. The new right also tried to reach the nation’s 50 million Roman Catholics through the right-to-life movement.  …