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Marcotte informs readers on the anti-choice organization, Americans United for Life (AUL), who author the handbook for the abundance of anti-abortion bills being introduced in state legislatures across the nation. Marcotte's level of attachment to the subject is not made obvious in the article but her background and bio make it easy to realize that women's rights is a topic of interest for Marcotte.
She directly addresses a specific part of the handbook, called the "Infants' Protection Project", which Marcotte says is "misnomer since abortions do not involve infants but fetuses, or in most cases, embryos." Marcotte obtains credible comments from Amanda Allen, the senior state legislative counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights, about the anti-choice force of the AUL. Allen calls the AUL's method of rebuking the pro-choice movement "a pretty brazen embrace" because of their shift in strategy to prevent abortion. Allen states that this a "great irony after pretending for the last four or five years that they're the ones that care about women's health." Obviously Marcotte put these comments in the article to point out the fact that the AUL is taking women out of the picture when it comes to abortion legislation. She tries to emphasize how the AUL seems to care about women's health but continue to show otherwise in their actions. After failing to pass legislation that would make abortion illegal, the AUL is now pushing for bills that would discourage abortions. Allen says that this method makes it hard to believe that the AUL are pro-women's health "when all theyre trying to do is choke off access to a safe and common procedure." Marcotte attests to this comment saying that "the proposed laws themselves demonstrate that AUL's stance toward women who consider having an abortion is not caring, but hostile." Marcotte uses the word hostile to alienate the AUL from the feminist movement and make clear that they do not have women's best interest in mind. Marcotte's main purpose in writing this article was to voice her opinion against the AUL and their handbook that proposes legislation against women having abortions.
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