You look like you have an opinion

On my final day of first-year orientation, I was stopped by a grown man from Abolitionists Rising carrying a poster with a giant AI-generated image of a bloody fetus. “Hey, you look like you have an opinion,” he said. He’s right. This confrontation turned into a 40-minute debate between a middle aged man and a 17-year-old girl about women’s bodily autonomy and religious freedom. Abolitionists Rising is a far-right, anti-abortion, Christian extremist organization. “Our goals are the abolition of abortion, the repentance of the nation, and the glorification of God,” stated their “Who We Are” page. There’s a link to their storefront immediately under that, because nothing says godliness like a price tag and merch. Abortion is bad because Jesus says so, and Jesus is the one and only true god, he said. I brought up that my religion says that abortion is okay, because in life or death scenarios, it’s more important to save the parent’s life than an unborn child, according to the Torah.

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