These purposes have drawn on anti-feminist sentiment from the outset. In an important series of papers, legal scholars Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel have shown that the contemporary anti-abortion movement in the United States had its roots in the “AAA strategy,” spearheaded prior to the Roe v. Wade decision. The idea was to recruit Americans who had traditionally voted Democrat to the Republican Party by stressing the supposed moral threat of “acid” (LSD), amnesty (for so-called draft dodgers from the Vietnam War), and, finally, abortion—envisaged as a threat to the nuclear family.
