{"id":1091651,"date":"2021-12-06T20:45:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T01:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1091651"},"modified":"2021-12-06T20:45:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T01:45:30","slug":"article-from-the-guardian-bashes-white-evangelicals-for-their-anger-over-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/article-from-the-guardian-bashes-white-evangelicals-for-their-anger-over-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Article From The Guardian Bashes \u2018White Evangelicals\u2019 For Their \u2018Anger\u2019 Over Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farticle-from-the-guardian-bashes-white-evangelicals-for-their-anger-over-abortion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1091651&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Abortion \u2014 which has claimed the lives of 63 million preborn babies since 1973 \u2014 provokes some measure of righteous indignation among American evangelicals. One progressive journalist, however, believes that they should have the opposite response.<\/p>\n<p>In reaction to Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization \u2014 a Supreme Court case regarding the state of Mississippi\u2019s ban on abortions past 15 weeks\u2019 gestation \u2014 Jessica Glenza of The Guardian wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/05\/abortion-opposition-focus-white-evangelical-anger\">article<\/a> blasting \u201cwhite, evangelical anger\u201d over abortion. In essence, she argued that state legislators\u2019 attempts to restrict \u201cabortion access\u201d have made 2021 \u201cthe most hostile year to abortion rights on record\u201d \u2014 even though \u201cabout four in five Americans believe abortion should be legal, at least in some circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe religious right in the US has been laying the foundations of this decisive challenge to abortion rights for years,\u201d she said of the Dobbs case. \u201cAccording to historians and researchers, it has taken decades of political machinations for the campaign to reach this zenith. The movement has intersected with nearly every major issue in American politics for the last five decades, from segregation to welfare reform to campaign finance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While arguing that the pro-life movement was born from \u201cRepublican operatives\u201d channeling evangelicals\u2019 \u201ccollective anxieties\u201d away from segregation and toward \u201cdefense of the fetus,\u201d Glenza observed that the issue of abortion boosted election turnout among American Christians. She links evangelical disdain of abortion to racism \u2014 for example, by asserting that President Ronald Reagan casted \u201cthe politics of reproduction through a new racist prism\u201d while using the term \u201cwelfare queen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the next breath, however, Glenza mourned that \u201cyoung, poor people of color will disproportionately suffer, forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term\u201d if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court. Glenza added that such an outcome is \u201cso severe\u201d that \u201chuman rights advocates\u201d \u2014 namely, Safe Abortion Action Fund board member Tlaleng Mofokeng \u2014 \u201chave said state abortion bans would violate United Nations conventions against torture and place the US in the company of a shrinking number of countries with abortion bans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with The Daily Wire, James Silberman \u2014 communications director of <a href=\"https:\/\/freethestates.org\/\">Free The States<\/a>, a Christian organization seeking the immediate abolition of abortion \u2014 pointed out that there is a \u201cdemented irony in claiming that young people of color will suffer if abortion is abolished.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, \u201cmore black babies are murdered than born in some parts of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne side of the abortion debate is rooted in outright white supremacy, and it\u2019s not those who oppose abortion,\u201d said Silberman. \u201cPlanned Parenthood was founded almost exclusively by eugenicists including KKK Exalted Cyclops Lothrop Stoddard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Silberman also responded to the fact that four in five Americans support abortion in some circumstances, even though roughly half of Americans call themselves \u201cpro-life\u201d \u2014 a phenomenon discussed by the new documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/ondemand\/astormcomesrolling?autoplay=1\">A Storm Comes Rolling Down The Plain<\/a>, which Free The States helped to produce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a function of the establishment pro-life strategy rooted in compromise,\u201d he argued. \u201cMany of those who pray for and celebrate \u2018moderate restrictions\u2019 will come to understand those restrictions as what it means to be pro-life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must stand on conviction and pass laws consistent with the truth, lest we come to believe lies. We must demand the total and immediate abolition of abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abortion \u2014 which has claimed the lives of 63 million preborn babies since 1973 \u2014 provokes some measure of righteous indignation among American evangelicals. One progressive journalist, however, believes that they should have the opposite response.In reaction to Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization \u2014 a Supreme Court case regarding the state of Mississippi\u2019s ban on abortions past 15 weeks\u2019 gestation \u2014 Jessica Glenza of The Guardian wrote an article blasting \u201cwhite, evangelical anger\u201d over abortion. In essence, she argued that state legislators\u2019 attempts to restrict \u201cabortion access\u201d have made 2021 \u201cthe most hostile year to abortion rights on record\u201d \u2014 even though \u201cabout four in five Americans believe abortion should be legal, at least in some circumstances.\u201d\u201cThe religious right in the US has been laying the foundations of this decisive challenge to abortion rights for years,\u201d she said of the Dobbs case. \u201cAccording to historians and researchers, it has taken decades of political machinations for the campaign to reach this zenith. The movement has intersected with nearly every major issue in American politics for the last five decades, from segregation to welfare reform to campaign finance.\u201dWhile arguing that the pro-life movement was born from \u201cRepublican operatives\u201d channeling evangelicals\u2019 \u201ccollective anxieties\u201d away from segregation and toward \u201cdefense of the fetus,\u201d Glenza observed that the issue of abortion boosted election turnout among American Christians. She links evangelical disdain of abortion to racism \u2014 for example, by asserting that President Ronald Reagan casted \u201cthe politics of reproduction through a new racist prism\u201d while using the term \u201cwelfare queen.\u201dIn the next breath, however, Glenza mourned that \u201cyoung, poor people of color will disproportionately suffer, forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term\u201d if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the Supreme Court. Glenza added that such an outcome is \u201cso severe\u201d that \u201chuman rights advocates\u201d \u2014 namely, Safe Abortion Action Fund board member Tlaleng Mofokeng \u2014 \u201chave said state abortion bans would violate United Nations conventions against torture and place the US in the company of a shrinking number of countries with abortion bans.\u201dIn an interview with The Daily Wire, James Silberman \u2014 communications director of Free The States, a Christian organization seeking the immediate abolition of abortion \u2014 pointed out that there is a \u201cdemented irony in claiming that young people of color will suffer if abortion is abolished.\u201d\u00a0Indeed, \u201cmore black babies are murdered than born in some parts of the country.\u201d\u201cOne side of the abortion debate is rooted in outright white supremacy, and it\u2019s not those who oppose abortion,\u201d said Silberman. \u201cPlanned Parenthood was founded almost exclusively by eugenicists including KKK Exalted Cyclops Lothrop Stoddard.\u201dSilberman also responded to the fact that four in five Americans support abortion in some circumstances, even though roughly half of Americans call themselves \u201cpro-life\u201d \u2014 a phenomenon discussed by the new documentary A Storm Comes Rolling Down The Plain, which Free The States helped to produce.\u201cThis is a function of the establishment pro-life strategy rooted in compromise,\u201d he argued. \u201cMany of those who pray for and celebrate \u2018moderate restrictions\u2019 will come to understand those restrictions as what it means to be pro-life.\u201d\u201cWe must stand on conviction and pass laws consistent with the truth, lest we come to believe lies. We must demand the total and immediate abolition of abortion.\u201dThe views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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