Rep. Ilhan Omar is developing quite a track record for demonizing entire swaths of America, and her latest target is religious pro-lifers.
In a several minutes-long rant better suited to "Mean Girls" than the floor of the House of Representatives, the freshman Democrat from Minnesota accused pro-lifers of being "religious fundamentalists" who are doing everything from trying to "impose their beliefs on an entire society" to "criminaliz[ing] women for simply existing."
Where to even start?
I suppose we can begin with the way she positions herself as speaking for all American women. It's the classic sexist trope that if you are a woman you are of course pro-choice. Yet it was a woman, for example, who signed Alabama's pro-life bill into law. Nearly half of women self-identity as pro-life, and women's views on the abortion issue run the same gamut – in roughly the same proportions – as men's. As Gallup recently put it, "Men, Women Generally Hold Similar Abortion Attitudes," with the exact same percentage of both sexes agreeing that abortion should be totally illegal.
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