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According to this article in Politico:
The Real Origins of the Religious Right
The anti-abortion movement was created as a political reason to get Christians to vote as a block for Republican candidates. Strangely enough (or not so strangely) it was not abortion that the creators of the movement were concerned about.
The reason for creating the abortion issue was to get Christian to vote for Republicans was Republican support for racial segregation. And the segregation issue was not one the people who created the abortion issue thought Christians would support.
It appears that conservative Christian leaders in the Seventies were not concerned about abortion because they all believed that human life started at birth.
The Real Origins of the Religious Right
The anti-abortion movement was created as a political reason to get Christians to vote as a block for Republican candidates. Strangely enough (or not so strangely) it was not abortion that the creators of the movement were concerned about.
The reason for creating the abortion issue was to get Christian to vote for Republicans was Republican support for racial segregation. And the segregation issue was not one the people who created the abortion issue thought Christians would support.
It appears that conservative Christian leaders in the Seventies were not concerned about abortion because they all believed that human life started at birth.