In many ways, the current fad in red states to pass unconstitutional laws banning abortion, even for rape and incest victims and the threat to a pregnant woman's life, is nothing short of disgusting.

Making it even more disgusting is that these laws in Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Louisiana and elsewhere have been spearheaded mostly by men who, despite the myriad of unique circumstances involved in pregnancies, feel they have the right to force a woman to bear a child for which members of their gender are 50 percent responsible, but bear no consequences.

For sure, there are many abortion foes who sincerely believe that to abort a fetus is an intolerable sin. But, also for sure, there's a vast swath of so-called "pro-life" advocates and lawmakers who are nothing but hypocrites.

They feel they should be able to force their views and religious beliefs on every one of us. But their concern for life stops there. While they piously insist that all babies need to be born, for too many of them, their "respect" for that new life ends right there.