Wow, the stuff you find when you’re double checking your facts before posting:

”He was just pro-Constitution. If you look at the Constitution, it doesn’t say anything about having life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — unless you’re gay. That’s what he saw — that we’d all be included in the whole American dream.” As for Mr. Conservative’s pro-choice stance, Mr. Ross [Goldwater’s grandson] pointed out that his grandmother — Barry Goldwater’s first wife (of 51 years) — had helped start Planned Parenthood in Arizona. ”My mother got an abortion when she was young,” Mr. Ross added. Though abortions were illegal in the 1950’s, she flew east with her parents’ help to get one.”Luckily we had the money to do that. I can’t imagine what someone with no money did then.”

nytimes.com