How abortion became the only political issue that mattered in 1990s

“What the movement had done so well is that it had entered very particular, intimate spaces of people's lives like churches, homes, schools, and convinced them that this was not only an important political issue, but the only political issue. And so by the late 1990s, they have a constituency of Americans for whom this is the only issue that matters,” says history professor Jennifer Holland.

“What the movement had done so well is that it had entered very particular, intimate spaces of people's lives like churches, homes, schools, and convinced them that this was not only an important political issue, but the only political issue. And so by the late 1990s, they have a constituency of Americans for whom this is the only issue that matters,” says history professor Jennifer Holland. Photo by Shutterstock.

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Madeleine Brand

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Sarah Sweeney, Angie Perrin, Michell Eloy, Amy Ta, Brian Hardzinski, Bennett Purser, Marcelle Hutchins