Here’s my hypothesis: when white Christians see themselves as valiant defenders of vulnerable unborn lives, they identify with the innocence of the victim so that the innocence or purity of the unborn victim is transfused into them. This idea of transfused innocence has a special appeal to people like me who were raised with an understanding of Jesus as the innocent victim, whose innocence was transfused (imputed was the theological term we used) to us through something called penal substitutionary atonement. With one “sinner’s prayer,” we were “born again” and given a new identity card, so to
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