They are ignorant of the facts of female humanity

Jessica Valenti is a feminist warrior. Her substack, All in Her Head, is a go-to read in this season of assault upon women's bodily freedom.

Valenti has taken upon herself the odious task of tracking the nonsense that anti-abortion campaigners -- mostly, but not solely, men -- spew about women's anatomy, the realities of pregnancy, and the physiology of birth and conception.  The examples are legion. Here's a short sample from her list, which she calls Shit Republicans Say. Valenti's commentary in bold type.

City Council member Dave Alvord, Salt Lake County, Utah, 2022, Responding to a tweet from Vice President Kamala Harris
“The baby is not part of the body of a woman. The umbilical cord and placenta do not directly connect to the woman. The baby floats inside the woman.”  

Factcheck: Babies don’t float.

U.S. Senator. Tim Scott, South Carolina, 2022, In a fundraising email
“If we don’t take back the Senate, Dems will pack the courts, give DC statehood, grant abortions up to 52 weeks, and Republicans will never win again.” 

Factcheck: Pregnancy lasts approx. 40 weeks.

Rep. Karianne Lisonbee, Utah, 2022, Responding to the criticism that she doesn’t trust women to control their own bodies
“My response is I do trust women enough to control when they allow a man to ejaculate inside of them and to control that intake of semen.”

Factcheck: GROSS.

Rep. Barry Hovis, Missouri, 2019, Defending an abortion ban, talking about his time in law enforcement
“Most of my rapes were not the gentlemen jumping out of the bushes that nobody had ever met...Most of them were date rapes or consensual rapes.”  

Factcheck: Rape cannot be consensual

Sen. Republican Clyde Chambliss, Alabama, 2019, Explaining when an abortion ban allows a rape or incest victim to obtain an abortion
“Until she knows she’s pregnant.”  

Factcheck: You cannot have an abortion before you know you’re pregnant

We just are not real to these people. Yet they want laws to control what they don't understand. They don't have a glimmer how our bodies work and it has never served them to find out. No wonder women are so furious.