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In 1967, ronald reagan signed into law the most liberal abortion rights bill in the country in california. so, it's not that there was not disagreement over abortion, or that there weren't strong feelings from various quarters about roe v. wade. but it was different. and specifically, it wasn't really a politics issue. it wasn't an issue that suede election, or that was a key part of the two parties political platforms. contrary to popular belief, roe v. wade in 1973 did not spark some kind of immediate big backlash among conservatives, and and evangelicals and republicans. it evolved differen...

And the individual justices who did this. and indeed, the individual states, there are new laws, and how fast the curtain is coming down, and are we gonna do something about that over the course of this hour? but to know what's coming next year, we have to get real about who did this, and how they did it. because this is part of a political project. this is a 40 years in the making project. for big, well staffed, well funded, very radical project of the american political right and the republican party. and i say it's very radical, on purpose. i mean that both in terms of its aims, we're seein...

How fast the curtain is coming down, and are we gonna do something about that over the course of this hour? but to know what's coming next year, we have to get real about who did this, and how they did it. because this is part of a political project. this is a 40 years in the making project. for big, well staffed, well funded, very radical project of the american political right and the republican party. and i say it's very radical, on purpose. i mean that both in terms of its aims, we're seeing that today. but also, in terms of its tactics. it's and polite to say this i know, but the antiabor...

His first antiabortion segment was not until 1978, more than five years after roe. even as late as 1980, when ronald reagan biden was no longer governor of california, he was running for president. in august 1980, reagan gave a speech to 10,000 cheering evangelicals in a dallas arena, and he talked about creationism, and the bible. he talked about how evangelical institutions ought to be able to remain racially segregated, if they wanted. that's nice. but even then, he did not mention abortion. the plan to use abortion as a right-wing political organizing tool, to try, for example, to move cat...

Women's rights. >> it was a choice for them, it was a project that did not emerge organically it was something that they really didn't start working on since the 19 80s, ronald reagan for example had to do a u-turn he had to repudiate the abortion rights bill as the inside of the california governor, when he became the first president to make opposition to abortion a central part of his political identity and the personal transformation on this issue shows the political transformation that was happening in the republican party. pretty soon the opposition to abortion would be an entry requireme...