Young anti-abortion woman are a fringe
For some reason the New York Times did a long profile of young anti-abortion women this weekend, after doing a long profile of anti-abortion “abolitionists” who want to punish women for having abortions a couple of day ago. I think it’s good to know what these people are up to but this is obsessive. It’s reminiscent of the endless forays into the wild of Pennsylvania to take the temperature of the Trump voters during the first years of his term. It’s some kind of over-compensation.
In any case, today’s article focuses on a group they think is left wing when it’s actually just a typical right wing troll group using lefty tropes:
Kristin Turner started a chapter of a youth climate group in her hometown, Redding, Calif. Her Instagram bio includes her pronouns (she/they) and support for Black Lives Matter. She describes herself as a feminist, an atheist and a leftist.
At 20, she is also the communications director for Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, whose goals include educating the public about “the exploitative influence of the Abortion Industrial Complex through an anti-capitalist lens.”
What utter bullshit. Here’s an example of what this ridiculous group is really about, which the NY Times forgot to mention:
An anti-abortion group that is facing previous federal charges said it took 115 fetuses from a medical waste company and buried 110 of them at an undisclosed location.
Washington, D.C., police, which originally said it found five fetuses in one of the group members’ apartments, is continuing to investigate the case.
At a news conference Tuesday, two members of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, Terrisa Bukovinac and Lauren Handy, said they got the fetal remains from a medical waste company employee who gave them the box from his truck.
The two women saw the medical waste truck, from Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services, outside Washington Surgi-Clinic, which performs medical procedures such as abortions. The women said they then took the box to Handy’s apartment. In total, they claim there were 115 fetuses in the boxes.
Bukovinac said in the news conference that she asked the driver of the truck if he would get in trouble if they took one of the boxes. She says he was shaken when they told him what the contents of the box were. The two women apparently told the driver they would bury the fetuses.
“The driver thought for a second and he said, ‘OK,’ ” Bukovinac said.
Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services told WUSA9 that it does not transport fetal remains and denied that any package was handed over to the anti-abortion group. The Baltimore-based company did not respond to NPR’s request for comment.
They’re just nuts.
I will never understand the NY Times’ compulsion to present right wing extremists as some sort of legitimate movement. This buying their BS that they’re actually left wing is a new one but it’s all of a piece. They seem to think it’s important to normalize right wing lunacy for some reason.