on contact to attacks on her as a mother. They’ve boiled her down to a single identity and everything she does or will do flows from that.But in touting the motherhood of Coney Barrett, Republicans haven’t just insulated Coney Barrett from Democrats’ questioning.
They also remind the public that a woman’s worth is primarily a measure of her reproductive capabilities.It’s a neat rhetorical trick—securing the oppression of all mothers through the elevation of a white, married, well-educated mother.
It doesn’t matter whether mothers speak out against Coney Barrett. It doesn’t matter whether other women who are not mothers do.
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