The Rise of the Evangelical Church in America

Carissa Haugaberg, Associate Professor of History at Tulane University, is author of the book Women Against Abortion. In 1980, the Republican candidate for president, Ronald Reagan, made opposition to abortion reform an important part of his campaign. Around this time, an OBGYN doctor named Bernard Nathanson, who had carried out thousands of abortions in the past, began to oppose the procedure. He attributed his change of heart to the rise of new technologies like ultrasounds,. which offered a view of what happened to the fetus inside the womblike never before.