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The anti-choice groups have long specialized in two ugly rhetorical tricks: Brutal imagery like the pictures of fetuses; and intertwining religious symbolism with their political statements to create a pretext for claiming religious persecution, to feed the paranoid fantasy that Democrats have "declared war" on religion. They hope to create ill-considered reactions that they can exploit for rhetorical advantage, and I'm not going to fall for it: I'll call a political message a political message when that's what it is, and treat their empty religious symbols for the cynical props they are.

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