Friday is the misleadingly named "March for Life," an annual event where the anti-choice brigade descends on Washington D.C. to march, speechify and party for the cause of forcing childbirth as punishment for sex. Anti-choicers are the OGs of right-wing trolling, which is why Friday's marchers are willing to brave the grim winter weather just to attach their misogynist march to the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. This year's theme — "Equality Begins in the Womb" — is an even nastier troll, hijacking the language of social justice while fighting to deprive every human with a uterus of their basic human rights.
Trolls being trolls, of course, the marchers are no doubt be especially giddy this year, as nearly every legal expert believes this will be the year that the Supreme Court, with its three Donald Trump appointees, overturns Roe. So expect lots of sanctimonious speeches praising the Republican justices for their supposedly "pro-life" ways and waxing poetic about how the GOP supposedly stands for "life." But remember that this empty posturing was always trollish nonsense from a party that opposes universal health care. It's especially grim in the face of the ongoing GOP war on the COVID-19 vaccine and their efforts to prolong the pandemic, no matter how many hundreds of thousands of lives are lost in the process.
