Let's pray abortion becomes as unthinkable as those outfits.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. This is the point.

Last week's leak of a draft opinion in the Dobbs case reignited comparisons of abortion

restrictions with Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. This is nothing new, of course, but still

silly and misguided. Atwood's dystopian novels about a fictional theocratic successor to the U.S. called

the Republic of Gilead. In it, select women are forced to become concubines for the sole purposes

of breeding. Of course, not killing a child is not the same thing as forcing a woman to bear a child.

In fact, the closest thing to Gilead in our world is commercial surrogacy, particularly those

nations where women are kept in

surrogacy farms barely paid to remain pregnant, to bear children for wealthy Westerners, especially

same-sex couples. Advocates of so-called parentage rights laws are bringing that to America,

not pro-lifers. Despite the promises, abortion doesn't bring freedom for women, only a false promise.

Friedricha Matthews Green and others have observed that abortion untethers men from their

responsibilities. Women get the receiving end of that bad deal. Abortion promises women freedom,

but only delivers abandonment. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.