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Roe v Wade - the 1973 ruling in the US that declared a woman had a right to an abortion without government restriction - came to symbolise much that was wrong with society for the Christian right. The Christian right is a group of, primarily though not exclusively, white evangelical Protestant Christians, along with conservative Catholic allies who have allied themselves with the Republican Party over the past 40 years or so. They got behind the party they thought most likely to strike down the ruling - the Republicans, who were a minority party at the time, and their support became crucial to the party's popularity. During the Trump administration, the Supreme Court, where Roe v Wade will be challenged, shifted decisively toward anti abortion with a 6-3 conservative majority following the president's appointments.

Daniel Williams, a Professor of History at the University of West Georgia, explains how the Republican Party became so strongly influenced by the Christian right and and now cannot afford to ignore it.

"No other industrialised country in the western world has such a large contingent of politically active conservative white evangelicals as the United States."

Photo: Amy Coney Barrett, the former President Trump's nomination, is sworn in as new Supreme Court Justice at the White House Credit: Getty Images

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