The Pro-Life Lobby isn’t Righteous. It’s Racist.
With a conservative majority now on the Supreme Court, those hostile to abortion rights have set their sights on overturning the landmark Roe v Wade decision making abortion access a constitutional right. Last week, the Alabama governor signed legislation outlawing abortion completely, unless the woman’s life is threatened or the fetus has a lethal anomaly. It’s now the most restrictive abortion law in the country, surpassing the “fetal heartbeat” laws of states like Georgia and Mississippi. Likely thinking themselves safe from an unfavorable court ruling in Washington, nine more states have passed or are considering similar hard-line limitations on a woman’s right to an abortion.
Proponents of these measures tend to rely on the idea that unborn fetuses are legally (and spiritually) equivalent to human beings, which they predicate on their religious beliefs. The pro-life lobby in America, however, has a much more insidious origin, whose motivations may not be as righteous as they’d have you believe. In fact, the conservative religious movement responsible for the creation of the pro-life lobby was actually born out of racial resentment, which it continues to perpetuate throughout its messaging today.
Despite their instance that God would want us to protect the rights of the unborn, there currently is not, nor has their even been, a…
