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Following the announcement<\/a> of Marco Rubio\u2019s advisers on pro-life policies, Jezebel\u2019s Anna Merlan is attacking<\/a> the board as \u201cfull of weirdos\u201d who suffer from a \u201cprofoundly limited sense of what women have the right to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yep, it\u2019s gonna be one of those<\/a> pieces.<\/p>\n

Before digging in to the alleged weirdness, Merlan hits Rubio for \u201ctrying to pander\u201d to pro-life voters by\u2026 articulating pro-life positions. Because it\u2019s automatically mere politicking to disagree with Big Choice, while defending abortion is inherently sincere, no matter how much money<\/a> changes hands<\/a>. It\u2019s either that or pretending we\u2019re just in it to control women; the constant in pro-abortion dogma is that one never, ever concedes the existence of a authentic, good-faith reason to disagree with them.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, the first of Rubio\u2019s alleged weirdos is George Mason law professor Helen Alvar\u00e9, who stands accused of opposing contraception and believing premarital cohabitation is wrong. In particular, Merlan finds it \u201cwild\u201d that Alvar\u00e9 believes contraception leads to \u201cincreased participation in nonmarital sexual relations without any expectation of marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uh, last time I checked, wasn\u2019t that one of contraception fans\u2019 own arguments for<\/em> it? Sexual freedom without automatically obliging one\u2019s self to a kid or a mate? Merlan is free to disagree on how casually one should treat sex<\/a>, but these are all pretty standard socially-conservative moral beliefs. If she finds Alvar\u00e9 weird, then all Merlan has proven is that she needs to get out more.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a fallacy to assume that any single advisor\u2019s personal beliefs would automatically translate to presidential policy\u2014nobody is interested in criminalizing cohabitation, and Rubio himself has if anything signaled he\u2019s excessively deferential<\/a> to contraception.<\/p>\n

Second on the list is Abby Johnson, former Texas Planned Parenthood director-turned-pro-life activist. Merlan\u2019s grievances here are especially thin\u2014she insinuates that Johnson is beyond the pale because her Medicare fraud lawsuit against Planned Parenthood \u201cfailed,\u201d and because she claims to have inside knowledge of Planned Parenthood’s\u00a0activities that Merlan doubts she has\u2026 except Merlan can\u2019t be bothered to specify which of Johnson\u2019s allegations she finds implausible or put forth evidence discrediting them.<\/p>\n

Further, what Merlan doesn\u2019t mention is that similar lawsuits have indeed found Planned Parenthood in the wrong<\/a>\u201445 public audits, $8.5 million in Medicaid overpayments, another $12.8 million in abuse and potential fraud, and multiple<\/a> settlements<\/a> for hundreds of thousands more. Somebody\u2019s version of the truth is weird here, but it\u2019s not Abby\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Next, Merlan attacks Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler and Assemblies of God general superintendent Dr. George Wood for being critical of homosexuality. To which the simplest response seems to be, \u201cHi Anna, I\u2019d like to introduce you to this thing called Christianity. Perhaps you\u2019ve heard of it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Seriously, it\u2019s not news that Christians generally believe homosexuality to be sinful. The only question is whether a Christian president would disrespect gay Americans or their rights, and there\u2019s no reason to believe Rubio\u2014or the other pro-life Christian candidates, for that matter\u2014would. It is another irony, though\u2014Merlan assails conservative Christians for our alleged intolerance, yet we\u2019re historically fully capable of working in harmony with one another<\/a> despite whatever disagreements we may have over other values. Meanwhile, it\u2019s Merlan\u2019s side that does things like devolving into hysterics<\/a> against Planned Parenthood for picking one candidate over the other, despite both of them believing all the exact same things about abortion.<\/p>\n

Merlan also dings Mohler for arguing that Christians shouldn’t do yoga<\/a>. Okay, that one\u2019s admittedly unusual, but does anyone think he\u2019d try to nudge President Rubio into pursuing some anti-yoga national policy? Or that on the 0.000000000000000000000000000000001% chance that Mohler\u2014there to advise him on abortion<\/em> policy, remember\u2014did try, Rubio would act on it?<\/p>\n

Really?<\/p>\n

Finally, if Jezebel thinks presidential advisers believing odd things is a scandal, then let\u2019s take a quick refresher course on President Barack Obama\u2019s own science adviser, John Holdren. Mr. Holdren, you may recall, believes<\/a> not merely that fetuses aren\u2019t human beings until birth, which would be wrong enough<\/a>, but that they don\u2019t become humans until well after<\/em> birth, once they\u2019ve had \u201cearly socializing experiences.\u201d He has also argued against Jezebel\u2019s precious \u201creproductive freedom,\u201d writing<\/a> that forced abortions, taking children away from single mothers, mass sterilization, and mandatory birth control are all policies we should seriously consider in order to combat overpopulation.<\/p>\n

All of this is vastly more insane than the worst possible interpretation of any of the statements Merlan highlights, contains one objectively-false scientific claim, and calls for directly taking away people\u2019s freedom far more egregiously than anything any current politician has ever proposed. And the guy has actually been advising a sitting president.<\/p>\n

And yet, a quick search<\/a> shows that Jezebel has never criticized Obama for seeking the counsel of a \u201cweirdo\u201d who wanted to deprive so many women of their bodily autonomy. However, their sibling Gawker site io9 did<\/em> attack<\/a> Republicans for daring to \u201clecture\u201d such an esteemed man of \u201cscience.\u201d<\/p>\n

All things considered, pro-lifers\u2019 track record of selecting sensible and responsible experts to help craft policy remains far more reassuring than pro-aborts\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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