Back in the early 2000s, I was a student at Ohio State University and was involved with an evangelical Christian group called Campus Crusade for Christ. We would have Bible studies separated by gender, such that every Tuesday about 30 guys would pile into a living room and read the Bible, break it down, and talk about how it applied to our lives.

So of course, being a group of all guys, one night we decided to talk about abortion. We had many different opinions on the subject. There were a few liberal guys like me, mostly moderates who opposed abortion but thought there should be exceptions, and very conservative guys who were against everything from abortion to in vitro fertilization to surrogacy.

One of them then invoked a nefarious figure in the abortion debate, Eric Rudolph, the Olympic Park bomber and abortion clinic bomber. Telling the group that he “couldn’t condone what he did, but could see why he would do it,” the group member elicited a very strong rebuke from the rest of us. He then said, “I just think some people are so opposed to abortion, that they are willing to do anything to........

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