Samantha Bee Breaks Down How The GOP ‘Legitimized’ The Abortion Issue

Abortion may be a key issue for evangelical Christian voters, but Samantha Bee says that wasn’t always the case.

On Monday night, the “Full Frontal” host went back in time to the late 1970s to explain how the issue was manufactured by power-hungry leaders of the religious right and then legitimized by the Republican Party.

“Last week, we took a look at the religious right, those coveted evangelical voters that conservatives spent decades pandering to only to be dumped just before November prom for a heretical billionaire bully who only says the word ‘God’ when he is ejaculating on a pile of money,” said Bee.

“Many people think the new religious right arose as a response to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision,” she added. “But that’s not true.”