Thread by @secularprolife

Let's start with the obvious: #prolife people should never resort to harassment or abuse. That said, Danielle is onto something; I *do* feel especially angry when people use the language of parenting to justify abortion. Why is that? 🧵

https://twitter.com/DCampoamor/status/1453341684440477705

I've written an entire (unpublished) novel on this theme, and it's not especially realistic to distill my thoughts into 280 characters at 2 in the morning, but here goes:

Abortion as a "parenting decision" shatters the idea of a parent's unconditional love.

If you subscribe to Danielle's view, you do not -- cannot -- love your children unconditionally. You love them because they fulfilled your conditions. They were conceived at a convenient time; their prenatal screenings revealed no disabilities.

Had they not passed those tests, your children's broken bodies would have been incinerated alongside medical waste, and you would not have batted an eye.

And that horrible precariousness, whether or not it is permitted to rise to the level of conscious thought, must have some impact.

Abortion advocates will dress it up with "parenting decision" and "complexity" but let's just call it what it is: cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is not a virtue. And the attempts to make it so piss me off.