Bernie Sanders recently tweeted a version of an old trope that if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. What claptrap:

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Bernie SandersVerified account‏@SenSanders If men gave birth to babies, there would not be a lot of discussion regarding the right to choose.

I often work closely with the pro-life movement on issues such as euthanasia and medical conscience. Most of the leadership of the movement are women.

Listing all the women leaders of the movement would take up too much space. Here’s a sampling: The head of the National Right to Life Committee, for example, is Carol Tobias. Most of the organization’s state affiliates are led by women, for example, in Oregon two women are in leadership, Dr. Joan Sage, president, and Gayle Atteberry, executive director. Iowa, Jennifer Bowen is the executive director. In Kansas, Mary Kay Culp. Here’s a link to state affiliates for those interested in a complete list.

Then there is the impactful Americans United for Life, led by Charmaine Yoest.

The Susan B. Anthony List — named after the great pro-life suffragette — was founded and is currently led by Marjorie Dannenfelser.

Pro-life politicians include Senator Joni Ernst (R., Iowa), Representative Mia Love (R., Utah), and presidential candidate Carly Fiorina.

Many, probably most, of the younger leadership in the pro-life movement are women, for example, Lila Rose and former Planned Parenthood clinic director turned pro-lifer, Abby Johnson.

Sanders’s ignorant tweet illustrates the two-dimensional thinking of so many pro-choice people, who create their own false narratives and then spout them as if they were reality.

Another is that pro-lifers only care about human life before birth. A complete canard.

Finally, the idea that men would not care about human life if they could give birth says more about the solipsistic values of those who say such things than it does pro-life men. Pro-lifers, men and women, are that because they believe the biological fact that the unborn are human, and accept the philosophical principle that human life matters morally.

One can disagree with the intrinsic value of human life. But that value system has nothing to do with gender.