For Religious Right, Abortion Was a Means to Power As Segregation Lost Political Potency

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For Religious Right, Abortion Was a Means to Power As Segregation Lost Political Potency

May 6, 2022

Ali Velshi reviews how the religious right became frustrated by the loss of segregation as an issue to mobilize their constituency and shifted instead to prioritizing abortion as a means of consolidating religious voters into a more powerful voting bloc.

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