There is an off-putting through-the-looking-glass quality to what passes for reasoned discussion on the anti-choice right wing. Their arguments against abortion often read as parodies of rational philosophy; today we get a glimpse of the “medical ethics” found in a “crisis pregnancy center”, and it has a similar clown-college aspect to it. The familiar themes are there: autonomy, patient preferences, informed consent - but as if read backwards.

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