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 Sometimes the mask will slip, and history gives a clean look at an ugly thing, like when Alexander Stephens proclaimed that the Confederacy was fighting for white supremacy. It’s unavoidable; you see it, you can’t unsee it, and how everything shakes out will set a new pattern for how everything will go. When certainty and consensus is achieved, everyone will say that they always agreed with what we’re saying now, though that’s not even close to true.

Most people prefer euphemisms in times like these. They’ll literally invent things that never happened, because a hero on the wrong side of a crossroads like this is intolerable.

Abortion is like this. It’s ugly, it’s tragic, and it’s actually indefensible. But ordinary people who don’t want to face it will talk about “choice” and “bodily autonomy” and literally anything else, because the nature of the thing is too ugly to face directly. 

What is the thing in itself? We’re not saying that choice or bodily autonomy don’t matter in any context; the moral force of the issue is precisely this: the intentional killing of a living human being at an early stage of development.

So it’s today’s version of “states’ rights” or “regional autonomy” or whatever. Do you really want to live in a society where people have rights only to the extent that they can fight for them? The Democratic Party for example, going in a direction where capitalism is proclaimed as bad and always was, but again, they’ve been carrying water for The Man and his silk pockets for decades. Corporations love abortion, because it’s cheaper than caring about whole families.

And this isn’t a love letter to President Trump or his allegedly Catholic Vice President, either. Trump took the plank out of the platform that advocated for the protection of law for the unborn. He’s the one fighting against protections at the state level. That’s the next step, and it always was.

And it’s not a religious conviction, per se. How about this: if you genocide yourselves, you’re bloody stupid, AND you deserve to burn in Hell.

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