The Politics of Abortion

The Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution calling for the legalization of abortion. A resolution they reaffirmed in 1974, year after Roe v Wade, and again in 1976. Marie Griffith: If abortion wasn't the thing that really pulled white evangelicals into politics, what was? It really begins with a court case in 1971 that's decided by the District Court at the D.C., she says.