Liberals think the Texas law will transform American politics, but the college-educated women who are the angriest about it abandoned the pro-life GOP for the Democrats a few election cycles ago.
The left believes that conservatives dream of living in the Gilead of “The Handmaid’s Tale” novels, a dystopian fantasy in which religious Christians tyrannize women. But it fails to see that the only real-life analogy to that vision is what is happening in Islamist societies like Afghanistan. There, the religious oppression of women is total. Women are treated like chattel, forced to wear burqas, refused the right to an education and even to reject marriages. That many of those using this hashtag didn’t bat an eye about the victory of the actual Taliban renders their talking point especially risible.
By contrast, American pro-lifers merely argue that unborn children shouldn’t be killed. One can disagree with their belief that life begins at conception, though the science is on their side. Many Americans insist on the mother’s autonomy as a priority, though, again, most also support some restrictions.
But to assert that opponents of abortion are oppressors of women or in any way comparable to the Taliban is both unfair and trivializes real misogynistic tyranny.
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