The fanaticism of anti-abortionists confirms that it's not about abortion per se, but all about getting their way, no matter what. They're unreasonable, unyielding, and given to lies and thoughtless appeals to religion. Hardly the stuff of compassion, kindness, and mercy.
At the root of it all, misogyny.
Women are not to be trusted, but to be kept.
The chief end of women, of course: to produce babies for the Empire, and then the men will protect the mothers and the children ... and then protect the church, and then protect the nation from godless communism and such enemies of God.
John Wayne kinda men ... bold, hard, square-jawed, and ready to kill the bad guys. Locked and loaded ...
None of this makes any sense when examined, but it's great pulpit fodder for easily misled evangelicals, who have been primed since birth to show up, shut up, and do as they're told.
If an image is needed, return to the days of yore - the veranda of an ante-bellum Virginia plantation ... dashing men with their horses and dogs, and women in hoop skirts, with "colored" nannies.
Pretty miserable stuff.
And there's no dealing with it.
Conversation is impossible.
I don't know how it can be resolved.
It's a first-rate mess.
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