This was also his answer to the question of exceptions for rape: men killing men. He had an idea of good men gathering to kill bad ones, God-fearers executing rapers. To spare the mother the pain, so she might raise the rapist’s child, because every child is of God. I thought of the man’s brightly smiling son. A father’s protective euphemism, “Let’s Go Brandon” for “Fuck Joe Biden.” His anger growing with age. What he described as the quiet pro-life views of his childhood. The murderous fantasy of now. I thought of the brightly smiling son and my own children, who must now forge their future
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