The faction that brought about the appointment of Trump’s Anti-abortion Triad does not represent a majority of the American people but is, rather, a clique that manipulates the frightened reactionaries among American voters who are aroused and driven by fear of the end of white domination, the end of Christian hegemony, and, most frightening, the end of patriarchal supremacy. This greatest fear arises from the increasing independence of women, and a crucial part of this independence has been a woman’s ability to obtain an abortion. 

The political opposition to abortion has nothing to do with the unborn. The majority of pro life politicians don’t really care about the lives of the unborn, no more than they care about the lives of anyone born who is not one of themselves. But they “got religion,” i.e., became ever increasingly pro life as a way to hang on to the few voting blocs on which they can always count, frightened males, Catholics, and evangelicals.

Within the pro-life movement there are, of course, many who are motivated by their authentically religious beliefs. But it was not the devout who managed the appointment of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. Rather they were put in place by a clique who seek to retain power by promoting the division of the American people.