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The Sinister Motives of the Extreme “Pro-Life” Crowd

They have figured out how to make certain forms of human trafficking legal

MaryClare StFrancis
4 min readNov 11, 2024
Photo by Ruthson Zimmerman on Unsplash

As a trafficking victim for most of my lifetime, beginning as a baby whose (step) father made kiddie torture porn of me, I’m pretty damn sensitive about trafficking. I notice things that others don’t. A few weeks ago, Ossiana Tepfenhart wrote an article about why the “pro-life” movement is so desperate to ban abortions federally, and she made some really good points. However, I think she missed a big one: trafficking.

When I came to the United States of America eighteen years ago, I was sent essentially as a mail-order bride, for a young fundamentalist man. He and I were being groomed by “Christian” nationalists to marry, have fifteen or so home birthed, non vaccinated, homeschooled, and super conservative children. The idea was to raise up an entire army of children for the dominionist movement.

In other words, I was essentially trafficked here to be an incubator for the far-right. I was a prize to these people because…

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MaryClare StFrancis
MaryClare StFrancis

Written by MaryClare StFrancis

I write memoir, nonfiction essays, and poetry

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