Fetal Schmittianism - by Mary Harrington

#society #anthropology

But does it make sense to produce certificates acknowledging the baby-ness of an early pregnancy, for grieving parents experiencing miscarriage, while legislating elsewhere to diminish the baby-ness of a late-stage pregnancy for desperate women terrified - like the woman in last year’s court case - of the social consequences of her pregnancy? From a perspective that views personhood as given, as our legacy Christian worldview does, the answer must surely be ‘no, this makes no sense’.

This makes perfect sense in Emmanuel Todd's latest developments : our societies are "post religious", going from Christian to "Zombie christian" then to complete nihilism. It explains a lot of trouble in Western societies.

https://reactionaryfeminist.substack.com/p/fetal-schmittianism