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Question: Looking back, do you think abortion rights advocates lost more than they gained with this decision?
#1
Democrat -Yes		  
#2
Democrat -No		  
#3
Republican -Yes		  
#4
Republican -No		  
#5
independent/third party -Yes		  
#6
independent/third party -No		  
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Total Voters: 45

Author Topic: 40th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade Decision Legalizing Abortion  (Read 3594 times)
afleitch
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« on: January 23, 2013, 06:34:19 AM »
Unlike most other countries that decriminalised abortion at around the same time, the USA has turned it into a religious and political issue in order to give religion weight and capital which it otherwise would not have had. As a result evangelical and protestant churches rushed to oppose it when previously they held rather different views on the matter.

This is worth reading;

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/02/18/the-biblical-view-thats-younger-than-the-happy-meal/
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