From the hospital, the child was whisked away. The best possible outcome, headlines agreed. Protecting a child from learning such harmful views. Margaret, reading the news on her phone, a milk-stoned Bird dozing at her breast, thought: awful. And: How could those people endanger their child. She tried to imagine carrying Bird into the crush of a mob,
Extreme oversimplification of a situation in order to agitate – classic, but really well done here, because the protagonist (in the last sentence I marked here) is also appalled by what she hears, as an initial gut reaction. That's why these shocker stories work.
