> Christianity didn't always hold this view. For the American Christian right, the transition began with Nixon's desire to win the Catholic vote away from the

> Christianity didn't always hold this view. For the American Christian right, the transition began with Nixon's desire to win the Catholic vote away from the Democrats in his 1972 campaign[1]. (Even in 1979 Billy Graham's magazine Christianity Today included the argument that "God does not regard the fetus as a soul, no matter how far gestation has progressed."[2]) [1] http://books.google.ca/books?id=zYZQBc9426QC&pg=PA14 [2] bit.ly/zITvj3