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An abortion rights advocate holds up a hanger during 2019 "Day of Action" rallies after Alabama passed what was then the country's most restrictive abortion law, which pales before Texas' recent ban with bounties. Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP/ via Getty Images)
Amidst the fifth annual Women's March and the one-month mark of Texas' public-shaming anti-abortion bill, we look to Dec. 1, when Mississippi's A.G. will ask a far-to-the-right-of-America SCOTUS to reverse Roe v Wade. The move, she says, will "empower" women, who will then be able to "really achieve your dream and goals, and you can have those beautiful children as well" in a case that's "truly chosen by God...Think about this. The lives that will be touched." Think about this: No one is more dangerous than someone who truly believes they were chosen by God to do anything, least of all this.
As a pastor, writes Melissa Florer-Bixter, she cannot define "the grey edges of life," and neither can lawmakers: "The Bible, for all of anti-abortion's Christian culture warriors, says nothing about start of personhood or the ethics of abortion. But the Bible is clear about this: There is tremendous grief in the world -- much of it caused by people who create structural and social hierarchies. For those whose bodies are unruly to coercive power, the result is profound harm."
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As a pastor, writes Melissa Florer-Bixter, she cannot define "the grey edges of life," and neither can lawmakers: "The Bible, for all of anti-abortion's Christian culture warriors, says nothing about start of personhood or the ethics of abortion. But the Bible is clear about this: There is tremendous grief in the world -- much of it caused by people who create structural and social hierarchies. For those whose bodies are unruly to coercive power, the result is profound harm."
As a pastor, writes Melissa Florer-Bixter, she cannot define "the grey edges of life," and neither can lawmakers: "The Bible, for all of anti-abortion's Christian culture warriors, says nothing about start of personhood or the ethics of abortion. But the Bible is clear about this: There is tremendous grief in the world -- much of it caused by people who create structural and social hierarchies. For those whose bodies are unruly to coercive power, the result is profound harm."