Funny thing about Bob Jones University is the role it's played in American politics. Many people now tend to think that the Roe decision in '72 galvinized the religous right but this is false. Few Protestants objected at the time. Opposition to abortion was seen as "a Catholic thing." What caused the religious right to rise up was the controversy at Bob Jones University in '75 (-I think that's the year) about interracial dating. The nation laughed at the backwater doofuses with their anitiquated ways. But Republicans---and I don't say this as a Republican basher; this is the history as Republican operatives tell it---swooped in and focused the outrage in people for whom this issue meant "the government is trying to tell us how to run our schools." When the Republicans sought to enlarge this base--millions of people who had disengaged from the political process--they needed another issue. Several were tried; none worked. None, that is, until abortion.
To make a long story short, Bob Jones U has something to do with abortion becoming a Republican issue. (I'm not a Republcan, though I oppose abortion.) Given that the original stink was over a policy that forbade interracial dating, I think that's kind of funny. (Among other things.)