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Ronald Reagan, father of modern GOP pre-2016, justified abortion

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  1. adoo

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    Ronald Reagan justifies liberalizing abortion



    On June 14, 1967, some 6-plus years before the Roe decision,

    then-Governor of California, Ronald Reagan signed into law the Therapeutic Abortion Act, making California only the 3rd state to adopt such legislation.​
     
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  2. Dairy Ashford

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    He fairly explicitly qualifies his support for to abortion by limiting it to the traditional qualifiers of life of the mother, rape and incest. He then goes on to try and liken abortion for just about any other reason to the Holocaust.
     
  3. Space Ghost

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    @adoo , I wonder if Hitler supported abortions.
     
  4. Ubiquitin

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    Unlikely.
     
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    The same crowd who says banning guns wont stop gun violence
    doesnt understand banning abortion just makes it underground.

    Its a necessary evil, just like war or a police force or taxes.
     
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    Early in 1967, the national debate on abortion was starting to gain traction. In the early stages of the debate, Democratic California state senator Anthony Beilenson introduced the Therapeutic Abortion Act in an effort to reduce the number of "back-room abortions" performed in California.[109] The state legislature sent the bill to Reagan's desk where, after many days of indecision, he reluctantly signed it on June 14, 1967.[114]About two million abortions would be performed as a result, mostly because of a provision in the bill allowing abortions for the well-being of the mother.[114] Reagan had been in office for only four months when he signed the bill and later stated that had he been more experienced as governor, he would not have signed it. After he recognized what he called the "consequences" of the bill, he announced that he was anti-abortion.[114] He maintained that position later in his political career, writing extensively about abortion.[115]

    Very dishonest headline by the OP.
     
  8. SamFisher

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    There's literally an entire galaxy of intellectual incoherence that is a billion times worse than this that is spewed forth by the GOP's current leaders every single second of every single day.
     
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  9. adoo

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    . ???

    Can you be specific?
     

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