Un-Seamly

The "Seamless Garment" Subversion of the Pro-Life Cause

Background:

Rebecca Bratten Weiss describes herself as an eco-farmer, writer, homeschooling mother, and Catholic, intersectional pro-life feminist. Until recently, she was an adjunct literature professor at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio (interest, gender and women writers). But her "self-appointed mission," as she writes at CatholicWomenSpeak.com, "is Arguing Politics on the Internet." Matthew Tyson is a writer, marketing strategist, Catholic convert, and pro-life leftist.

Weiss and Tyson say that pro-life efforts to make abortion illegal are futile and that people who want to protect the unborn should focus instead on changing the economic and social conditions that...