Thread by @AlsoACarpenter

I think it's clear why many social justice oriented Christians appear tepid in the eyes of the Right in their anti-abortionism: they simply don't understand the legal question as easily disentangled from the social conditions that overwhelmingly lead to abortion. 1/

2/ By far, the strongest statistical correlate to abortion is poverty. I mean, hands down. (There is an interesting spike when considering the uber-wealthy, but that's a small group.) And when you see one party championing illegality yet likewise championing libertarian style

3/ social policies, even blaming the poor for their own poverty and condemning the morals of single mothers rather than changing the conditions that make single motherhood so overwhelmingly difficult for many, it makes it truly hard to take their anti-abortionism to be more than

4/ a political litmus test and a leverage for power.

I promise, the majority of social justice oriented Christians already largely agree that life in the womb is sacred and should be afforded legal protections, even if there are disagreements on the parameters.

5/ But coupled with policy that directly results in millions of abortions, it looks a lot like politics. And this politics is often accompanied with no real action yet is consistently played as a binary - "do you care about babies or just made up stuff like systemic racism,

6/ hhmmm??" Even implying (or stating) that if you REALLY care about babies, you are REQUIRED to support the party committed to preserving the social circumstances that lead to abortion and just hope it somehow becomes illegal, effectively ignoring those who suffer at both ends.

7/ Thus, it doesn't take a genius to see why one "side" in the Church is comfortable championing illegality with no correlates, yet the other "side" feels compelled to speak of more dual faceted complex - which, unfortunately, just looks like squishiness to those attempting

8/8 to leverage the abortion issue for political demagoguery.

Just my opinion.

I mean, it seems clear to me that this is exactly what @andrewtwalk's tweet was doing yesterday.