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Daniel K. Williams

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Democrats Can’t Rely on the Black Church Anymore

The path to winning the Black vote no longer runs through the church door.

by Daniel K. Williams via The Atlantic on September 18, 2024
It Wasn’t the Religious Right That Made White Evangelicals Vote Republican

To understand why evangelicals vote Republican, we shouldn’t focus just on Falwell; we need to look at a century or more of evangelical political culture.

by Daniel K. Williams via Anxious Bench on August 23, 2022

Abortion and America's Churches: A Religious History of Roe v. Wade

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Abortion’s Long History

Abortion has been an inescapable fact of life for millennia. So why do women gain or lose control over their reproductive lives at different times in history?

by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books on September 4, 2025

Jimmy, Rosalynn, and Amy Carter at the Baptist church in Plains, Georgia, 1976.

How Jimmy Carter Lost Evangelical Christians to the Right

The Baptist Georgia governor won evangelical Christian voters in the 1976 presidential election. Next time around, those voters changed sides—for the long haul.

by Chris Lehmann via The Nation on December 30, 2024

Margaret Sanger in 1928.

The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Ghost of Margaret Sanger

Religious conservatives see “anti-eugenic” laws as the most promising path to establish a federal ban on abortion.

by Melinda Cooper via Dissent on January 17, 2023

Collage of images of fetuses and placentas.

Fetal Rites

What we can learn from fifty years of anti-abortion propaganda.

by S. C. Cornell via The Drift on October 27, 2022

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