Are women people or passive vessels for God’s fetuses? Views differ

One valuable service provided by the dumber members of the Republican coalition is that they just come out and say what the one with fancy law degrees merely logically imply:
Truly one of the most disturbing things I’ve witnessed in a long time. A Congressman, in a bid to overturn Roe V Wade and deny American women reproductive rights. Publicly referred to them as “Earthen vessels, sanctified by Almighty God.” Give me strength. pic.twitter.com/LvYM46GRVN— Dr. Jennifer Cassidy (@OxfordDiplomat) December 3, 2021
The analogy to a Polaroid picture is one of the dumbest arguments I’ve ever heard, but it is revealing in that rights and interests of the pregnant woman simply disappear from the question entirely. It would be grimly amusing except that the same logic is about to become official Supreme Court doctrine.