Barry Goldwater was:
-Pro Choice
-Pro Gay Rights
-Strongly Disliked Evangelicals
He was pretty radical for his time, not just for economic views.
Out of curiosity--did Barry Goldwater believe that abortion should be a state issue or did he support Roe v. Wade?
He supported Roe v. Wade, because in his view it kept the government out of making private medical decisions.
So, in other words, we wasn't too big on states' rights, correct?
Not really, as far as I can tell. I mean "states rights" was the argument he used against the Civil Rights Act and he did believe that the states were better at solving problems than the federal government, but it was more in a uniform libertarian sense and not just a "let the states decide every issue" localization sense.