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My ‘Pro-Life’ Evangelical Relatives Horrified By Overturning of Roe

Joe Scarborough Eugene Robinson MSNBC Morning Joe 3-8-24On today’s Morning Joe, Scarborough told a tale of attending a family gathering for his last birthday, and that his family members there were “all Republicans. All pro-life. All evangelicals.”

And yet, were they really “pro-life”? According to Scarborough, 30 minutes into the gathering, one relative raised the anedcote of a woman in Texas who was bleeding out because the doctor wouldn’t perform an abortion. And that in turn led to “these people, these Republicans, these pro-lifers, these Southern Baptists, these evangelicals, had one horror story after another horror story about what terminating Roe v. Wade was doing to human beings.”

As opposed to actually terminating human beings.

Not one of those “pro-life” relatives, in Scarborough’s recounting, supported the overturning of Roe?  No, they were all horrified by the decision, and found it devastating….

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