Well, bless it, South Carolina, the rooster crowed and out strutted Lee Bright and Rob Harris again, hollering about “protecting life” while standing on the backs of women and children like it’s a campaign float.
Let me translate that press conference from porch to plain: They are not fighting for babies. They are fighting for control.
Not one word about rape.
Not one word about incest.
Not one word about the ten-year-old child they would force to carry a pregnancy while they head back to their offices and call it moral leadership.
And let’s talk about the elephant rocking in the parlor.
It is pure hypocrisy for two men who will never carry a child, never bleed, never fear a pregnancy born of violence, to dictate what a woman must endure. They can’t get pregnant, they can’t carry a baby, and yet they feel entitled to write laws about bodies they will never live inside. Even worse, they have not sponsored one meaningful piece of legislation to protect women from domestic violence.
Not one serious effort to strengthen penalties for rape or abuse.
Not one loud stand for the women already suffering in their own homes.They don’t show up when a woman is beaten.
They don’t show up when a child is abused. They only show up when it is time to control.
They wrap it in church language, but this is politics wearing a Sunday hat. If you truly cared about life, you would be talking about prenatal care, mental health, child protection, foster systems, poverty, and why South Carolina keeps failing its women long before they ever see a positive test. You would be fighting just as hard for the living as you do for the talking points.
God created all people equal, not as property to be managed by politicians with microphones. Maybe instead of holding press conferences, they ought to spend a little more time reading their own scripture.This is not leadership.
This is not faith. This is power dressed up as righteousness. And from this front porch in South Carolina, I am telling you plainly. You do not get to claim moral high ground while pushing women down and calling it love.
WHILE I BREATHE 