Without googling it, I wonder if any reader can come up with the two American politicans who expressed the following views in the 1970s:
"I was born out of wedlock (and against the advice that my mother received from her doctor) and therefore abortion is a personal issue for me. . . . If one accepts the position that life is private, and therefore you have the right to do with it as you please, one must accept the conclusion of that logic. That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to be concerned. . . . What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience?"
"While the deep concern of a woman bearing an unwanted child merits consideration and sympathy, it is my personal feeling that the legalization of abortion on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life. . . . When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception."
(Cited in Ponnuru's The Party of Death)
Update: The correct answers are (a) Jesse Jackson and (b) Teddy Kennedy.
