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Liz Bruenig is an odd duck. Though ostensibly a leftist, the Atlantic columnist is famous for pushing reactionary views disguised as progressive common sense. She has a remarkable ability to make the worst ideas sound innocuous, writing so blandly and “civilly” that readers may not even be aware of what she is doing. She is famously against abortion. In the past, as Jude Doyle notes in an excellent takedown of all things Liz Bruenig, she has suggested that “gay people might still be acceptable in the eyes of God if they stayed celibate” and “that crisis pregnancy centers — fake abortion clinics that promise “help” with unwanted pregnancy, then terrorize patients into promising they won’t get an abortion — could end poverty.”
