Ginny Stroud: “One more thing before you celebrate America on July 4th, the modern anti-abortion movement was started by a racist marketer who wanted to create a movement that would assure an all-white Bob Jones University in perpetuity. He knew he couldn’t rally fundamentalists on overt racism, so he created a “moral majority” scam that self-righteous fundies lapped up.
Prior to the marketing ploy, conservative Protestant churches believed abortion was a personal decision between a believer and God - protected from government interference.”
“When the Roe decision was handed down, W. A. Criswell, the Southern Baptist Convention’s former president and pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas—also one of the most famous fundamentalists of the 20th century—was pleased: “I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person,” he said, “and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed.”
The more you know . . .
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/