I'm convinced - with very little evidenced - that she and her husband are very much anti-abortion but they lie because if they were honest - their audience would dry up and they'd lose a lot of money.

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Whaddya know. I was right.

archive.today • What We Talk About When We Talk About Elizabeth Bruenig | by Jude Ellison S. Doyle | Jul, 2022 | Medium

The once-beloved “leftist” is facing backlash for her anti-abortion views. Why did it take this long?

Jul 20, 2022

This bit is highlighted...

To strip women and trans people of agency, violate their bodies, kill thousands of them, and then throw the survivors some free diapers isn’t “leftism;” it’s barbarism with a sheen of feel-good charity to make it sell.

There's a lot more I could quote but I'll just mention this...

Consider a sentence from that 2014 piece on “pro-life liberalism:” “Since we care enough about the outcome of pregnancy to insist against abortion, then we must continue to care about the outcome when abortion is no longer a legal option.” Did you catch it? I didn’t, at first. It’s so subtle, just a whiff of a suggestion of a hint of a teeeeeensy tell: “When abortion is no longer a legal option.”

Not “if.” When.

For Elizabeth Bruenig, the overturn of Roe has always been both possible and desirable. Her “leftism” is simple cleanliness: She wants to be standing just far enough away that she won’t be spattered with blood when the axe falls.

Thank god for archive.today. The article is now behind a paywall.