> Among the apparent sins of the Weimar Republic: one person one vote, equally counted, for all men and women over 20, as well as legalised abortion. Back to t

> Among the apparent sins of the Weimar Republic: one person one vote, equally counted, for all men and women over 20, as well as legalised abortion. Back to the U.S. I recommend this 2020 book on that issue: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-power-worshippers-9781635573435/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-power-worshippers-97816355... "The Power Worshippers -- Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism" by Katherine Stewart "Stewart pulls back the curtain on the inner workings and leading personalities of a movement that has turned religion into a tool for domination. She exposes a dense network of think tanks, advocacy groups, and pastoral organizations embedded in a rapidly expanding community of international alliances and united not by any central command but by a shared, anti-democratic vision and a common will to power." Also, from 2013, "The Not-So-Lofty Origins of the Evangelical Pro-Life Movement": https://religiondispatches.org/the-not-so-lofty-origins-of-the-evangelical-pro-life-movement/ https://religiondispatches.org/the-not-so-lofty-origins-of-t... "as Randall Balmer has succinctly put it: “the religious right of the late twentieth century organized to perpetuate racial discrimination.”" And "How Republicans Became Anti-Choice": https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/11/08/how-republicans-became-anti-choice/ https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/11/08/how-republicans-... "in the late 1960s and early 1970s, many Republicans were behind efforts to liberalize and even decriminalize abortion; theirs was the party of reproductive choice, while Democrats, with their large Catholic constituency, were the opposition." The book I've mentioned first explains why and how the change happened and what is happening now, really fascinating.