"Two unrelated events conspired to dull the moral sensibilities of the Catholic clergy: the pro-abortion stance of the Democrats in the 1970s and the Southern strategy adopted by the Republican Party after the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts in the mid-1960s."

Don't blame the bishops callous disregard for anything but abortion on those who seek to keep abortion legal.  The bishops chose and they are responsible for their choices - to ignore racism, to ignore basic health care. The bishops are responsible all by themselves for their obsession on one issue to the exclusion of all others.  Trump is in because they would not address his sexism, his racism, his crudity. That millions could lose health care doesn't matter as long as they get to keep their "religious freedom" to dominate others, to deny them the ability to make their own health decisions on something as normal and simply as contraceptives or as life saving as sterilization which would reduce abortions.