[philipallstar]

> The pro-life movement in the US was laser focused on that issue, but it was a manufactured campaign by the Republican party to capture evangelicals.

This is silly - people are pro life all over the world. E.g. this guy in the UK[0].

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9kp7r00vo

[mrtesthah]

Nope, that poster is correct.

When we showed up with the anti-abortion message at first we failed. The evangelicals who had attended our seminars by tens of thousands when we were launching the first series just were not interested in the abortion issue. At first we were looking at empty seats in places like the Grand Ole Opry we’d filled a few years before.

It took a lot of hard work to change that apathy on the “issue.” And oddly what in the end gave the series credibility were the Republican political leaders who saw the chance to cash in on the issue. The fact they began to pay attention to Dad and me got evangelical leader’s juices flowing: They coveted our new access to power!

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/frankschaeffer/2014/07/the-act...

[camgunz]

People have been anti-abortion since antiquity. The pro-life movement we know today was concocted by Republican operative Paul Weyrich (co-founder of the Heritage Foundation): https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-ri...