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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anti-abortion and anti-birth control are about getting votes for Republicans. Read Crazy for God by Frank Schaeffer. He was an insider in the Christian evangelical community and present at the meetings int the 1970s between Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Republican leaders in which abortion was agreed to be an issue they could use to motivate evangelicals to deliver votes to Republicans. Abortion was not a national issue or much discussed out of theology and medical schools before the Moral Majority made it a political vote cow. This is also why Republicans, even when in control of every branch of the federal or state government, will not actually outlaw abortion- because it would kill the garaunteed vote cow. It is a tool of political manipulation, plain and simple.[/quote]

Uh, assuming this is true, it explains why the politicians do it.

But given that it gets votes, it doesn't explain at all why a large percentage of people hold these beliefs. [/quote]

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. The religious leaders agreed to start preaching about abortion and villifying it. Large numbers of people hold these beliefs because they hear about them at church repeatedly, and because their religions tell them to. But before the 1970s churches didn't talk about abortion much and it wasn't a big political or national issue.[/quote]

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