The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #171399   Message #4147416
Posted By: Helen
15-Jul-22 - 04:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Roe v. Wade
Subject: RE: BS: Roe v. Wade
I just realised that a situation filmed for a news item about Donald Trump, which never made much sense to me, has possibly been explained by that article.

When Trumpty-Dumpty was still the President he was filmed in the Oval Office (from memory) surrounded by evangelical Christians who were praying with (or over?) him. It seemed odd to me because I had never heard him refer to Christianity or religious beliefs in any of his speeches up to that time. It also just occurred to me that that may have been the day he took the photo opportunity, holding the Bible in front of a church.

The introductory paragraphs of the article are:

"There was a time in the United States when abortion wasn't so political, but one conservative Christian man believed it could be.

"To him, the reproductive rights of women presented an opportunity. He dreamed of building a coalition — a powerful voting bloc that would help pull the Republican Party to the right."