John Pavlovitz - It's Too Bad the Pro-Life Right is So Violently Anti-Life

John Pavlovitz
Mar 30, 2025

Conservatives love embryos.

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They speak effusively about them in conversation, publicly revere them at rallies, shed crocodile tears over them in Op-Eds, accost strangers entering clinics over them, viciously troll people on social media because of them, and sermonize on street corners about them.

They even claim to have voted for a reprehensible monster who they'd never otherwise tolerate to lead them, solely on their behalf.

Republican people of faith regularly fall all over themselves, carry on wildly, and tear their garments in showy grief over embryos; unleashing all manner of histrionics at those they deem a danger (those who believe in a woman's right to have autonomy over her own body.)

And they do all of this (they claim), because they believe that embryos are human beings and they want those beloved in-utero human beings to be cherished, defended, and protected at all costs, which all sounds quite admirable were that the whole story—though it isn't.

The problem with their breathless, tearful zealotry, is that once these embryos are no longer embryos—these supposed life-lovers often don't treat them like they're at all human. Prior to departing the birth canal, they’re sacred. After that, they’re screwed.

https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/its-too-bad-the-pro-life-right-is