I try to believe that most pro-lifers are sincere, even the ones who are clearly causing harms they aren't recognizing, or the ones who trivialize the Holocaust with their rhetoric. But it's difficult sometimes - there's a point past which I just can't believe people are acting in "sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity", as the saying goes.
Such as when Nicaragua passed a complete ban on abortions and claimed that no women will die as a result, because modern medicine can save all mothers and fetuses - there have got to be people with influence and power who were backing that bill who knew damn well that's a bald lie. Or when a US Catholic hospital refuses on Catholic-opposition-to-abortion grounds to let a procedure that would remove a dead fetus from its mother happen in their facilities unless things had gone septic or the mother was hemorrhaging. Or when pharmacists refuse to fill antibiotic prescriptions that were written by a clinic where abortions are performed, on the grounds that the prescription was written at such a clinic (and not on patient safety grounds).... you get the idea.
FWIW, I do think the domestic terrorism contingent of the anti-legal-abortion camp is sincere - their actions are so extreme and so clearly putting themselves at risk that it's hard to believe they'd do such things if they didn't honestly believe they were doing the right thing. That said, I don't think they're exactly representative...
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Such as when Nicaragua passed a complete ban on abortions and claimed that no women will die as a result, because modern medicine can save all mothers and fetuses - there have got to be people with influence and power who were backing that bill who knew damn well that's a bald lie. Or when a US Catholic hospital refuses on Catholic-opposition-to-abortion grounds to let a procedure that would remove a dead fetus from its mother happen in their facilities unless things had gone septic or the mother was hemorrhaging. Or when pharmacists refuse to fill antibiotic prescriptions that were written by a clinic where abortions are performed, on the grounds that the prescription was written at such a clinic (and not on patient safety grounds).... you get the idea.
FWIW, I do think the domestic terrorism contingent of the anti-legal-abortion camp is sincere - their actions are so extreme and so clearly putting themselves at risk that it's hard to believe they'd do such things if they didn't honestly believe they were doing the right thing. That said, I don't think they're exactly representative...