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42. Not quite. The GOP platform of 1976 was the last one with unequivocal support for the ERA...

Tue Oct 30, 2012, 03:21 PM

Oct 2012

...that is the Equal Rights Amendment for women. Abortion policy was limited to "a position on abortion that values human life." There was no mention of personhood for fertilized eggs. That platform was in keeping with GOP positions back to about 1940.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25843

The 1980 platform had a bizarre ambivalence on the ERA: "We acknowledge the legitimate efforts of those who support or oppose ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment," and it explicitly mentions a right to life for unborn children.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25844

Subsequent editions have had no support whatsoever for an ERA for women, and the language on abortion has been consistently strident.

I would say the takeover of the GOP by ultra-conservative religious zealots had just begun in 1976, and was complete by 1980. The sell-out worked well for them, at least for a while. Now they are paying the price.

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