History Lessons

It's pretty hard to make informed decisions about anything without knowing history. The rhetoric is fast and furious, and the claims come just as fast. What the candidates were doing in Vietnam has even been brought up as a campaign issue. So only having a memory limited to the last ten years, with most of the important parts left out is no way to go through life.

Here are some historical tidbits. Many people do not know this, but in the 1960's, the Republican(which used to be voted for by blacks as an exclusive party, when they could get to the poll box, party of Lincoln and all) and the Democratic Parties switched ideologies.

Also, when abortion was illegal, some women did not just have the baby, and stand up in church with the father or adopt it out to a rich family. Some instead went to abortionists or tried to abort themselves. Here is an excerpt of a book about this.