When moving homes recently, I had a conversation with the mover that cut through a lot of what passes for sophisticated discourse about abortion. He asked me what I did for a living, and I said I was a lawyer who focuses on pro-life policy. He was confused and asked what that entails. I told him I work to make abortion illegal.

“My sister showed me a video of an abortion once, that baby had eyes and everything!” he replied. “I was like, ‘Dang!! That’s murder!!’”