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    Anita Chabria: It's not about babies. Abortion restrictions are about power

    The toes, the clothes and, oh, the smell of a newborn. Babies are adorable — which is precisely what makes infants such powerful political forces, and abortion such a divisive issue. But of course, abortion isn't really about the babies, is it? Because we have plenty of babies living without health care, going hungry, stuck in foster care with no prospects of adoption. Few anti-abortion folks ...
    by Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times Apr 12, 2023 5 minutes
    Jazmyn Williams, 22, of St. Petersburg raises a fist and marches during an abortion protest on Saturday, July 2, 2022, in Tampa, Florida. "I'm a woman," Williams said. "I was born with rights that will never be taken away."

    The toes, the clothes and, oh, the smell of a newborn.

    Babies are adorable — which is precisely what makes infants such powerful political forces, and abortion such a divisive issue.

    But of course, abortion isn't really about the babies, is it? Because we have plenty of babies living without health care, going hungry, stuck in foster care with no prospects of adoption. Few anti-abortion folks spend their weekends protesting those realities.

    Abortion restrictions are about power — particularly dominance over Black and brown women. And even the overturning of Roe v. Wade last summer didn't drive that home quite so much as Friday's ruling from an ultraconservative Texas judge whose court order, if it stands, would thwart access to the safest and most common drug in use for chemical abortions by the end of this week.

    "Misogyny amongst certain

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