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Salon
Salon
Lifestyle
Margaret Jay Jessee

The crafted "evil abortionist" archetype

An anti-abortion picket, with protestors holding placards reading 'Abortion Kills', 'Celebrate Life', 'Abortion is Murder,' 'Stop Killing Babies' and 'Baird: What's the Body Count at Your Abortion Mill Now?', with a sign for a Mobil petrol station in the background, picket a birth control lecture by reproductive rights advocate Bill Baird, United States, 13th August 1971. Peter L Gould/FPG/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, one aspect of the abortion debate stayed the same: lurid sensationalism.

GOP firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene extolled the court for outlawing "mass genocide," though anti-abortion activists nonetheless warn of Planned Parenthood already organizing an "illegal abortion enterprise."

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