How abortion became a divisive issue in US politics

Since the US Supreme Court's Roe v Wade decision legalised abortion nationwide in 1973, the issue has become one of the defining fault lines in US politics, with Democratic politicians firmly supporting abortion rights and Republican lawmakers lining up in opposition.Republican and Democratic voters were equally likely to say abortion should be legal, while it was easy to find Republican officials who supported abortion rights and Democrats who opposed the procedure.

These groups portrayed abortion as a threat to the family structure, along with broader social developments like gay rights, rising divorce rates, and women working outside of the home. For pastors and parishioners, abortion became a proxy issue for concerns about a liberalising society, said Mary Ziegler, a legal historian at University of California-Davis.In 1980, the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution opposing abortion, reversing its earlier position.

Republican George HW Bush, an abortion opponent who had earlier supported abortion rights, won the presidency in 1988. In 1992 he was defeated by Democrat Bill Clinton, an abortion rights supporter who had earlier opposed abortion. Voters were slower to sort themselves out. As late as 1991, 45% of Democrats and 41% of Republicans said they supported abortion for any reason, according to the General Social Survey.

All this does is put the US on the same footing as Ireland. If they want abortion to be legal, they can make it legal. Hopefully though, this will encourage pro-abortion people worldwide to look at their views on abortion and ask themselves if they really know what they support.

What a tremendous day for the unborn. It will reduce the number of murders by 100's of thousands. Ireland needs to learn from this. Vita Donum Dei.

Republicans did this with the judge as proxies. Will it prevent Republican gains in the next elections.. NOPE. Only 55 % of the Electorate will vote In November.. And there lies the problem..

Blame Trump appointing 3 Roman Catholic judges to the Supreme Court....Our government would never do that....

Maybe later term abortions up to the point of birth didn't settle with some sections of the community.

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