Why are Evangelicals Anti-Abortion?

     The humanities class for the second trimester of senior year is Equality. My classmates and I have been learning about race, gender, and class, along with how inequality in America targets people at the intersection of various identities. For the culminating project we all made zines, and to research this we talked to people at the Chicago Public Media Group and visited Buddy, a store that sells work by local artists. I chose to make my zine about the engineering of Evangelical opposition to abortion. This topic is very interesting to me because it is assumed that Christian resistance to abortion is a given, but it's actually relatively recent. The research process was engaging due to the many things I hadn't heard before being revealed in the research process. Check out my zine below!

    I tried to use visually engaging images and put at least one picture on every page to keep the zine interesting to look at. I also wanted to use lots of different things that signify the time period this was happening in such as presidents and new products to help contextualize the time period for the reader. The internal investigation for this unit was probably one of the coolest ones I've had all of high school and while getting used to a different medium for this project was difficult I still found it to be rewarding. 

Works Cited: 

Abdelfatah, Rund. “Evangelicals Didn't Always Play Such a Big Role in the Fight to Limit Abortion Access.” NPR, NPR, 22 June 2022, https://www.npr.org/2022/06/22/1106863232/evangelicals-didnt-always-play-such-a-big-role-in-the-fight-to-limit-abortion-ac.

Dirks, Sandhya. “Abortion Is Also about Racial Justice, Experts and Advocates Say.” NPR, NPR, 27 June 2022, https://www.npr.org/2022/05/14/1098306203/abortion-is-also-about-racial-justice-experts-and-advocates-say.

Grimké Angelina Emily. Appeal to the Christian Women of the South. American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836.

“The Making of the Evangelical Anti-Abortion Movement.” MR Online, 8 July 2022, https://mronline.org/2022/07/09/the-making-of-the-evangelical-anti-abortion-movement/.

“The Religious Right and the Abortion Myth.” POLITICO, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/10/abortion-history-right-white-evangelical-1970s-00031480.

Siliezar, Juan. “A Harvard Exhibit on Christianity and Slavery.” Harvard Gazette, Harvard Gazette, 7 Jan. 2019, https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/01/a-harvard-exhibit-on-slavery-and-christianity/.

Silk, Mark. “Discovered Letter Exposes Roots of Ronald Reagan's 'City on a Hill Patriotism'.” Religion News Service, 18 Sept. 2018, https://religionnews.com/2018/09/15/the-faith-of-ronald-reagan/.

Taylor, Justin. “How the Christian Right Became Prolife on Abortion and Transformed the Culture Wars.” The Gospel Coalition, 9 May 2018, https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/evangelical-history/christian-right-discovered-abortion-rights-transformed-culture-wars/.