Michele began dating Marcus Bachmann in 1976 while they were both working for the presidential candidacy of Democrat Jimmy Carter. Both Michele and Marcus opposed the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade and Carter's campaign also expressed a personal opposition to discretionary abortion. During his run, Carter stated "I think abortion is wrong and that the government ought never do anything to encourage abortion. But I do not favor a constitutional amendment which would prohibit all abortions, nor one that would give states [a] local option to ban abortions.
After Carter was inaugurated, Michele and Marcus saw Francis Schaeffer's 1976 Christian documentary film, How Should We Then Live?. Inspired by the film, they began to protest abortion by praying outside of clinics and being sidewalk counselors in an attempt to dissuade women from seeking abortions.
The picture of Rep. Bachman is slowly coming into focus.
