I used to be a clinic escort at the little women’s health clinic down the street from me. We had a group of protesters there every day. They were insane and hateful. We also had a mug book that we were encouraged to look at that was pictures of all the protesters that were known to be violent. It was a lot of pictures.

It is patently obvious that nobody actually considers a couple of weeks old fetus to be the same thing as a baby. We don’t react emotionally the same way to the loss of it, we can be completely ignorant of the existence of the fetus, etc. I can understand if people have a mystical belief in the existence of a soul and that soul being implanted at conception by a God who does that kind of stuff, but it shouldn’t impact public policy. I also don’t understand why their god doesn’t just solve this problem he created, but that’s true for a lot of god-stuff.