Actually, the right didn't freak out because it didn't care. The Southern Baptist Convention had called for legalizing abortion in 1971. It wasn't until 1979, when the right realized it needed to find a new issue other than segregation to organize on.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/08/abortion-us-religious-right-racial-segregation https://twitter.com/RAMansour/status/1521341524746809345 pic.twitter.com/L7bMMhrhCw