MSNBC Pretends Being Pro-Life Is About Control Is Confirmed By ‘Research’

NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali concluded her guest hosting of MSNBC’s Way Too Early on Wednesday by welcoming Shefali Luthra, health reporter for The 19th News, to promote her new book, where Luthra claims that the left’s position that pro-lifers simply seek to control women is not just a lazy opinion, but a fact confirmed by “research.”

Vitali was all for the conclusion, “I want to read something that I read in your book. You say ‘it wasn’t until 1880 that every state had passed laws criminalizing abortion, a shift that was less about religion and more a product of a campaign orchestrated by a male-dominated medical establishment.’”

Opening up the floor to Luthra, Vitali continued, “You say that ‘it’s in part to consolidate power and weaken the credibility of the midwives’ who were typically women who often helped people terminate their pregnancies. I’m interested in, as you dug into the history, on how these policies came to be. It wasn’t just about gender from a biological standpoint, it was about gender from a societal standpoint too, right?”

The only question that matters in the abortion debate is whether the fetal and embryonic stages of development are simply other parts of life akin to infancy, adolescence, or adulthood or not. Everything else is just noise, which is what MSNBC prefers because they think it benefits Democrats and because it can’t actually refute pro-life logic without tying themselves into a pretzel.

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