One issue. the one political insider said that mattered. i had voted for public funding of abortion. with the constitutional amendment, the support draft said that we would. so we support that case. one of the first in the united states. the anti-abortion movement has political clout. that surprised a lot of journalists and political analysts who believe those people made a lot of noise but not much difference. after those 1978 races, those people resolved to make up a whole lot more noise, and in a very organized way. in a letter to fellow conservatives, or to a fellow conservative, another conservative activist and the leader of the religious right, paul wyrick, characterized those anti-abortion victories as quote true cause for celebration. and predicted that opposition to abortion would pull together many our fringe christian