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Anita Chabria

Anita Chabria: It's not about babies. Abortion restrictions are about power

The toes, the clothes and, oh, the smell of a newborn.

Babies are adorable — which is precisely what makes infants such powerful political forces, and abortion such a divisive issue.

But of course, abortion isn't really about the babies, is it? Because we have plenty of babies living without health care, going hungry, stuck in foster care with no prospects of adoption. Few anti-abortion folks spend their weekends protesting those realities.

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