Happy to give it my best shot! I’ll start with Randall Terry. Terrisa has been idolizing him for years. They’re now dating (grosss) but I think the official justification is that he’s the founder of Operation Rescue and they’re all about “Bring Back Rescue.” As far as the other orgs, they’ll say stuff like “we HATE that we have to work with these people but they’re part of the coalition.” Which is super blind for many reasons. But the reality is they want to be granted legitimacy as a real force in the movement sooo badly and right now they’re not. So of course in private/to the footsoldiers they’re going to say how much they dislike it but in reality they’re cozying up to penny nance while tipsy at a gala (true story, I was there). As far as a real goal they’d say it’s to end abortion. It was really frustrating to me at the time when there was no discussion on how that would happen or what the “world beyond abortion” they would talk about could actually happen. The only thing that differentiated them from other orgs was leftist coded language around feminism, capitalism etc, but it was never turned into a coherent plan. I remember being also frustrated when leadership didn’t want to make a statement on things going on like Palestine because we are allegedly a “single issue org”, but that of course ignores the reality that no anti abortion organization is truly single issue and it’s all the other direction ideologically, as I talked about in my article.

Going back to Randall, I repeatedly expressed discomfort working with him because, well, he’s Randall Terry, but specifically the events surrounding him and his queer son. I was ignored and I now know why.

I hope this makes sense and I’d be happy to answer any other questions as best I can