15 January 2014updated 28 Jun 2021 4:46am

The biggest lie of the anti-choice movement is that it is they who deal in harsh realities

Pope Francis's positioning of abortion as part of a “throwaway culture” shows how little respect there is for a woman's right to control her own body.

By Glosswitch

Just occasionally, the cold-heartedness of anti-choice rhetoric can take your breath away. In his State of the World address on Monday, Pope Francis (remember, he’s the “nice” one) offered a shining example of this, situating abortion within the context of a Daily Mail-esque “throwaway culture”: