Abortion-Killing: The Silent Genocide: 2 Billion Deaths Victims Worldwide.

[ShinyCrystals]

Really? Pretty interesting, I must say. Really. Not surprising, too.

Really. In the late 70s, there was this thing called Moral Majority, led by a Christian pastor named Jerry Falwell, who conflated religion and politics by preaching that abortion was murder and that the moral duty of a good and faithful Christian was to declare him or herself to be "pro-life." It was, perhaps, the most successful marketing campaign ever launched in the political sphere, creating legions of single-issue voters who would stand in line at the polls in any weather to elect pro-life candidates.

By framing abortion as the most important threat in a broad secular assault on "family values" and using rhetoric of the "sanctity of life" (lifted directly from the Roman Catholic catechism) a group of what were essentially lobbyists found they could mobilize conservative voters throughout the Bible Belt, millions of citizens who had previously been politically passive.

But it wasn’t just abortion: the Moral Majority and their allies hated homosexuality, single parenthood, pornography, feminism, and legions of other secular "ills".

Overnight, they were pulling the lever for the Republican candidates and it became the Christian way to signal a vote for "life," because this was the way the God of the Bible said he wanted things to be. Millions of Christians flocked to the polls, electing Ronald Reagan in a landslide to appoint Supreme Court Justices to overturn Roe. Poor women, who disproportionately use abortion clinics, were just the collateral damage, painted as heedless, heartless killers lacking in conscience, personal responsibility, and heart.

Sounds like more of an attempt to gain power more than being pro-life. People are so easy to manipulate it seems, but that does not make those Moral Majority was right. I doubt they would be really pro-life, especially with the other things they hate like homosexuality.

This is why I don't like religion, as it was just a grab for power, and does more harm than good for society and its people. Due to its history with sexism, religion and the Moral Majority just are/were things that were trying to suppress women and their rights anyway. Plus, the USA is supposed to have a separation of religion and politics. We need to fix that and improve that more.