Oz tried to sidestep this question. But what he did say was both telling and alarming.
, which he also allegedly paid for.) Abortion has been used by the most radical wing of the party as a way to whip up its base since the late 1970s, often driven less by a fundamental belief system than by calculated political strategy — a way to access an alleged moral high ground while pursuing an agenda of racial segregation.
As Dartmouth professor Randall Balmer, author of “Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right,” outlined in Politico after Roe v. Wade was overturned,until after the 1978 midterms, five years after Roe and amidst efforts by the IRS to rescind the tax-exempt status of church-sponsored whites-only segregation academies. Before the late ‘70s, abortion had largely been considered a Catholic issue, and many evangelical leaders even actively supported the legalization of abortion.
Anti-abortion sentiment did not become a central issue for conservative Evangelical leaders until after the 1978 midterms, five years after Roe. “Opposition to abortion, therefore, was a godsend for leaders of the Religious Right because it allowed them to distract attention from the real genesis of their movement: defense of racial segregation in evangelical institutions,” wrote Balmer. “With a cunning diversion, they were able to conjure righteous fury against legalized abortion and thereby lend a veneer of respectability to their political activism.
Abortion care — which, again, has a real, material impact on the safety of women and other birthing people — is little more than a cynical tool to right-wing demagogues, utilized to consolidate power.
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