It was never about “pro-life”

By now, everyone has given their hot take about the leaked Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v Wade. Instead, I want to make a confession.

If you went to Cal State Northridge in the 80s, you might remember a large glass case in Sierra Tower. Campus organizations can promote their groups by putting a display in the case. The campus anti-abortion group displayed gruesome pictures they claim were aborted fetuses. Their goal was to shock people into opposing abortions. Since it was across from the vending machines and was the first things students saw after getting their coffee and Hostess Twinkies, it definitely had an effect.

One day, their display received some, well, additional decorations. A garland of wire hangers draped across the display and posters attacking the hypocrisy of the “pro-life” movement and Moral Majority were taped on the glass. (The group’s display was locked inside the case and left untouched.) The additional decorations were quickly taken down, but the organization removed their display soon after. A pro-choice organization put their display up next.

Who were the culprits who decorated the display? The same ones who put up flyers at a Joan Rivers comedy show around the same time: my friends and me.

My anger towards the anti-abortion movement came from my revulsion of the Religious Right with…