Sooner or later, this fact is going to result in a religious liberty fight and the Christofascists too lazy to deal with the fact that they are trying to impose a metaphysic held by 8% of Americans on the other 92% will suddenly whipsaw from blabbering about “religious liberty” to declaring those who do not share their metaphysic to be the Enemy Within. It is a tactic they have used against Jews before.
When I pointed this out some time ago, a reader (who, to be clear, elsewhere wrote, “I cast my vote proudly today for Donald Trump. That’s something I didn’t know that I would be able to say just a few years ago. I voted for his re-election in 2020, but wondered in the period surrounding January 6, 2021, whether I could support him again. But when you do the research, you understand that a lot of what was said against him about that day was exaggerated”) objected that is was mean to the poor, poor beleagured MAGA Cult of cosplay martrys.
Here’s reality: Fluctuating percentages of between 8-15% (currently 12ish%) of Americans want a total ban on abortion in the US. These people tend to be exactly the same people who perpetually moan and whine that their “religious liberty” is being oppressed because of stupid shit like coffee cups not to their taste or Target clerks who say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”. In order to impose their fantasy ban on the other 90ish% of Americans, they have chosen to back a Tyrant and criminal they fantasize cares about abortion as much as they do. They will back every act of tyranny and cruelty he commits to get their fantasy enacted. Not long ago, in their Superior Righteousness to liberal vermin like AOC, the “prolife” cult of death agreed to murder children with cancer so their Tyrant messiah and his cronies could have more money shoveled to themselves.
So: given that the Cult have already demonstrated their willingness to kill innocents (including child cancer victims) to support their Tyrant messiah, and given that the “prolife” MAGA cult of death are fine with the language of “the Enemy Within” to stigmatize those they want to crush so they can win power at any cost, why should any rational person doubt that when Jews point out that abortion is not seen in their religious tradition as the Cult sees it, the Cult will not retaliate by abandoning all pretense of interest in “religious liberty” and declare Jews “the Enemy Within” as Trump so eagerly names all his victims.
MAGA defenders like my reader, willing to muscle down and smother their cries of conscience after J6 and passionately support a rapist, sex predator, racist, liar, traitor and enemy of our Constitutional order can deny these facts all they like. But the reality is that there is no path to victory via democratic means for the “prolife” MAGA cult’s fantasy of a nationwide, zero tolerance abortion ban. So they have agreed to support a Tyrant and his methods in the hope of gaining their goal by authoritarian means, Jewish religious liberty (among many other things) be damned.
And don’t even start with the whole “But MAGA love Israel!” sleight of hand:
A cult that marches under the banner of the swastika loves death. Period. It’s use of Israel, like its use of the unborn, as human shields for its fundamental goals of money and nihilist power are lies that only a fool still believes at this point.
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The fanatical anti abortion people, some of who, want to criminalize miscarriages, made a deal with the Devil. Trump promised them to overturn Roe, which he did,and in return, they support him, no matter what.
The real goal is tax cuts for the billionaires, not the common good, but the fanatical anti abortion people must support this. The bill has come due.
Honestly, I’m struggling to remember hearing anyone argue that abortion should be banned because it violates religious liberty. I suppose it’s possible I have heard the claim, but had already begun to ignore the conversation due to other hints the arguments to follow would be logically flawed. Is that something you’ve actually encountered?
I feel it’s worth clarifying that calling for banning abortion on grounds of freedom of religion is distinct from objecting on the grounds of religious freedom to being forced to help fund abortions (or for the signature case involving The Little Sisters of the Poor, contraception). This latter position definitely is common, and I know it’s not contentious here…I was trying to remember a lively quip Mark made some time ago, and I managed to find it: “…the HHS Mandate, which aims to tell Catholics “Stay out of our bedrooms” while simultaneously frogmarching us in and forcing us to pay for what is done there.”
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2013/05/obama-c-s-lewis-and-the-boy-who-cried-wolf.html
However, specifically for topic at hand, I am more used to seeing the opposite. The usual form is, “You’re free to not get an abortion if you believe it is wrong, but don’t impose your religious beliefs on me.” The goal is to sidestep the question of whether human rights apply to unborn human, which is not inherently a religious question, by insisting the matter only be considered as a religious belief. It stands out to me that flipping the assertion around then frames the belief in a right to abortion as also a religious belief.
More formally, there actually have been recent court cases seeking to overturn restrictions on abortion by arguing that abortion is protected as a religious right by the 1st amendment, rather than the usual strategy of calling on the 14th amendment.
I certainly have seen absurdities like complaining that marketing a “holiday cup” is an attack on religion. My reaction is always to brace myself for the storm of mockery toward Christians in general that such absurdities inspire. On the other hand, my reaction to reading Rafaella Gunz’s post is simply to wonder, “Who in the world is she responding to?” It seems like a strawman.
“… Doug Wilson, an influential Reformed pastor who has emerged as an oft-cited religious thinker in conservative circles, derided [Paula] White-Cain, a Pentecostal pastor, on his podcast. While responding to others on his show who were critiquing White-Cain, the Idaho pastor referred to her appointment as “a bad pick for all kinds of reasons.” In a separate interview with Religion News Service on Thursday, Wilson said he hails from a “conservative Christian quadrant that objects to women preachers in the first place,” and described White-Cain as an “erratic woman preacher who has been all over the map.”
https://religionnews.com/2025/02/21/trumps-choice-to-run-white-house-faith-office-sparks-theological-turf-war/
It should never be legal to kill someone because they are unwanted.
The fact that the majority of our society doesn’t agree with this (qua abortion laws) is irrelevant. Sometimes a change in society’s opinion is downstream of changing the law.