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valleyrogue

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31. Not true. Many Republicans in the past supported women's rights.

Wed Dec 10, 2025, 12:43 AM

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Lots and lots of Republicans supported ERA and abortion rights, for example. Lots and lots of GOP politicians supported those and other women's rights issues. I am plenty old enough to remember when this was so.

It wasn't until the religious right got a stranglehold of the GOP beginning in 1980 did the attitude change. Moderate and liberal Republicans, and eventually the conservative ones, got run out of the party.

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