EPISODE · Sep 27, 2021 · 54 MIN
Dancing With Abortion
from Dancing With Skeletons · host Elizabeth Stoeckel
In the early 1980’s the “anti-abortion” coalition worked to change its messaging. The “pro-choice” side was perceived as positive, while the “anti-abortion” side was perceived as negative. As soon as they successfully changed their marketing to “pro-life”, they were seen in a much more positive light. Today “pro-life” doesn’t mean “one who defends all life”, but rather it means, “one who doesn’t believe in a woman’s right to choose her own medical care”. In this episode, Liz expresses her anger at learning the extreme hatred that was taught to her kids by their Sunday School teachers when they were little. In her naïveté, she believed her kids were simply being taught to love God and love people, but she was wrong. They were taught that women who had abortions were murderers and AIDS was God’s punishment for being gay.
Embed this episode
What this episode covers
In the 1970's most conventional American Christians believed that abortion in some cases should be legal and safe. Most mainstream Christians supported Roe vs. Wade because they recognized that women getting "back-alley abortions" were being maimed and even killed. In the late 1970's a Catholic attorney named Phyllis Shlafly determined that one of the ways to finally unify the anti-abortion Catholic Church with the traditional American mainstream Christian Church on political matters was to make "right to life" a political issue. Prior to this, Christians weren't terribly keen to get in bed (so to speak) with the Catholic Church.
Ready to play
Dancing With Abortion
No transcript for this episode yet
Similar Episodes
No similar episodes found.