abortion rates are basically flat across the span of professed religious belief in the US. There is a consistent trend of hypocritical “well yours is murder but

abortion rates are basically flat across the span of professed religious belief in the US. There is a consistent trend of hypocritical “well yours is murder but my abortion doesn’t count”. The people foaming at the mouth are sincere in the intensity of their intent, but the professed specifics are a proxy for a more fundamental (hah) mix of fear and pride and rage that until recently wasn’t something that was generally spoken aloud in public, or acknowledged even private. in the specific case of american protestant evangelicals, that fundament has much more to do with their complete moral failure on the matter of civil rights, and a desperate scramble to pick anything sufficiently horrific to be against in order to be able to view themselves as good and ideally superior. In the late 1970s, and post-roe, it occurred to people that the good old blood libel of “killing babies!!” is about the most horrible thing you can do, so it’s easy to be against it. Conveniently, a lot of these people where also already in the goldwater camp, stewing about their political ostracism, and reagan needed votes. So a faustian bargain was struck, and here we are, reaping the whirlwind.