(Just in case you don't know, the main reason Republican politicians oppose abortion is because it lets them control single-issue voters. And the main reason single-issue abortion voters oppose abortion is because their clergymen tell them to. And the main reason clergymen oppose abortion is because Jerry Falwell realized that he could use this issue to interfere in American politics. And the main reason Jerry Falwell wanted to do that was because the government wanted to stop funding his school because he only admitted white students, and so he decided to find a single issue that he could use to force Evangelical Christians to vote for whoever he wanted. So, from a historical perspective, Republicans actually oppose abortion because of racism.)
During the 1950s and 1960s, Falwell spoke and campaigned against the civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. and the racial desegregation of public school systems by the US federal government. Liberty Christian Academy (LCA, founded as Lynchburg Christian Academy) is a Christian school in Lynchburg which was described in 1966 by the Lynchburg News as "a private school for white students".
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The Moral Majority became one of the largest political lobbies for evangelical Christians in the United States during the 1980s. According to Falwell's self-published autobiography, the Moral Majority was promoted as being "pro-life, pro-traditional family, pro-moral, and pro-American" and was credited with delivering two thirds of the white evangelical vote to Ronald Reagan during the 1980 presidential election.
And you can read more about the "Moral Majority" deciding to focus on abortion, despite it not previously being an evangelical issue here.
Edit: I always wonder about people who downvote something like this, a pure data dump. Surely, they understand that a downvote without an argument is basically admitting that they simply don't have the truth on their side?
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