W. A. Criswell, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, pastored First Baptist Church in Texas at the time (now pastored by famed Trump enthusiast Robert Jeffress). He was so pleased with the SCOTUS decision that he said, “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, and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed.”13
