The Pro-Life Movement's Cruelty Problem
Two proposed bills threaten to worsen pregnancy outcomes and increase intimate partner violenceShe stays quiet because of her child, my patient tells me. But despite her passivity, her husband always manages to find something wrong with her. He shouts at ungodly volumes, threatening, "Don't make me do something to you that I'll regret!" Another time, "You're making me angry enough to hit you!" She invariably cowers in terror, shielding the child from him. "Like a switch, he shuts it off and turns to our son, smiling, comforting him, even when he's just threatened me. I don't understand it," she weeps...


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