These are stories that “pro-life” white evangelicals cannot allow themselves to hear or to see. These are stories they cannot allow themselves to acknowledge.
And to whatever tiny extent they can accept or acknowledge such testimony, they will immediately, defensively reassure themselves that such stories are exceptional or vanishingly rare, and thus of no consequence to what they assume or presume or hope or want must be the vast majority of other stories — those involving lazy sluts who “murder babies” for the worst possible reasons.
Anti-abortion politics are centered on bearing false witness against women.
And on refusing to hear or to see the actual, true witness of women. Witness like this:
Lying about such women while refusing to listen to them or to see them is vile. It’s evil and pernicious and corrosive.
And that’s even before we get to the absolute rejection of subsidiarity at the center of all of the stories above. In anti-abortion politics, decisions are taken away from those closest and most affected by them. Those decisions, instead, are mandated by those farthest removed from the facts and the impacts, by people unaffected and unrelated to them, for whom such decisions are abstractions based on false witness and hostile, vicious false assumptions about those directly involved.
That such evil, soul-rotting, prideful garbage is treated as possessing the “moral high ground” is just theatrically stupid.
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