Chattanooga Times Free Press

Witch hunters now dictating our laws

Regarding abortion and a woman’s right to choose: If men gave birth, abortion clinics would be as numerous throughout the country as payday loan centers.

The so-called “pro-lifers” tend to be conservatives who think government has no business intruding into their lives, but they have no problem with government forcing every pregnant woman to give birth, regardless of the circumstances of her pregnancy.

Those pro-lifers are not so concerned with living human beings. It is only potential humans, the unborn, for whom they shed their crocodile tears — entities with no names, no personality, no footprint upon the earth. They think an embryo, even a zygote, has more rights than the woman in whom it resides.

We wouldn’t even be having a debate about a woman’s right to choose if evangelical Christians hadn’t wormed their way into the Republican Party over the past 30 years. There’s no longer a line between church and state. A minority of rabid, backward-thinking fundamentalists are forcing their Old Testament morality and mindset on our society. That’s called a theocracy, folks. Are we really going to let these 21st-century witch hunters and their hand-picked Supreme Court justices dictate our laws?

Rick Armstrong

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2022-05-20T07:00:00.0000000Z

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