Experiment

What will the religious right do with their lives should the Kavanaugh-containing Supreme Court overturn Roe?  Abortion was the perfect issue for the religious right.  It let mean-spirited, hateful, authoritarians claim to protect innocent children.  These cynics cry on cue, wave gruesome photos, and demonize Planned Parenthood.  But, the tells have always been there.  Too many men in charge.  Can anyone believe Ralph Reed, that pasty-faced opportunist, gives a damn about children?  The wretched lying about late-term abortions.  Conservatives can't stop punching down.  Can't stop mocking other people's tragedies.  Malformed, dead or dying, fetuses were portrayed as cherubic Gerber babies.  Grieving, devastated women portrayed as lazy sluts terminating pregnancies so they could fit into prom dresses. 

And, the biggest tell of them all: abortions allowed in cases of rape or incest.  Why?  Are those fetuses any less innocent?  Any less alive?  Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop is the only politician I've heard -- this was many years ago -- decry those exceptions.  It did not make him popular among the anti-abortion crowd who needed the double standard.  Forcing a woman to carry to term her rapist's baby was too cruel to be popular.  Yet, few people among the pro-choice crowd say the obvious: fights against abortion are fights against women's rights and have nothing to do with children.

Speaking of being on cue, Rep Steve King of Iowa tweeted a photo of a sleeping infant and an anti-abortion message.  Steve King: bigot, white supremacist, and pro-pollution toady.