Motivated by roe. the former president of america s largest prot stat denomination the southern baptist convention endorsed the ruling roe v. wade and said i always felt it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person. and it has always therefore seemed to me that what is best for the mother and the future should be allowed. end quote. in fact, in 1971, before the decision in roe v. wade, that same protestant group resolved to seek pro-abortion legislation, allowing the procedure in certain case, and then reaffirm that resolution, in the year after roe, in 1974. pushing for legislation that would allow people to choose abortion in specific instances. it was not until years after the roe ruling that the evangelical movement decided that coalescing around abortion was the way to unify religious groups and gain