I had an abortion.

[SCantiGOP]

5. Remember the Life magazine article from the mid 80's

This was when Falwell and others were running around saying AIDS was God's punishment for gays. They ran pictures of everyone, a couple of hundred as I recall, who had died in one week from AIDS (this was when a year or two was the typical life span after diagnosis). You could tell some were gay men, but the impact of seeing an elderly nun, several infants, kids of all races--was very powerful in changing the dialog. Many of them had contracted the disease from transfusions, so the 'God is letting this happen' argument died a quick and well-deserved death.

By the way, I'm old enough to remember when Life did a similar spread by showing all 200+ US casualties of the Viet Nam war. I still think that had a lot to do with changing the attitude of the public.