The 44th anniversary of Roe v. Wade falls two days after the inauguration of a man, who despite having proven himself time and again to be intolerably cruel toward women, was elected president nevertheless.

From his caught-on-tape boasting about grabbing women by the pussy; to his implications that if Ivanka Trump weren’t his daughter, he’d probably date her; to his almost childlike glee in degrading women like Rosie O’Donnell, Hillary Clinton, and Alicia Machado by denigrating their looks, or their weight, or their attractiveness to men, Donald Trump has continued to exhibit misogyny and dishonesty in staggeringly disastrous proportions.

And for that reason, he is anti-choicers’ dream.

Because when the smoke of human kindness with which anti-choice legislators, scientists, organizers, activists, and allies have cloaked themselves begins to dissipate, all that is left is the rank disdain for women that drives their movement—a movement that is chock full of people who regard the truth as something to be bent to suit their purposes.

It is fitting, therefore, that someone as dishonest and misogynistic as Donald Trump may very well be the president who decimates reproductive rights and ushers in some sort of apocalyptic Handmaid’s Tale hellscape for women in this country.

But we mustn’t let Donald Trump’s behavior detract from the dishonesty and misogyny of the anti-choice advocates themselves. While they may fool themselves into believing they are on the righteous path, in reality, they are little more than snake-oil salespeople, selling lies and fraudulent tales about concern for women in their endless crusade to end abortion.

They are our biggest threat.

For decades, unmoored by such trifles as truth, integrity, and a firm grasp of science, they have been traveling down a road they hope ultimately will lead to a nationwide abortion ban. And they have paved that road on the backs of the women whose health and safety they claim they want to protect.

For example, in Texas, Republican legislators passed one of the most restrictive pieces of anti-choice legislation in recent history, HB 2, swearing all the while that their intent was to protect women’s health and safety.

But that was a talking point developed to mask their true purpose, which was to shut down abortion clinics and cut off access to abortion in Texas. The “women’s health and safety” canard was nothing more than Texas legislators’ not-so-sly wink and a nod to the anti-choicers who understood what they really meant.

But some of the legislators couldn’t hide their glee at stripping access to abortion from millions of reproductive age people in Texas: In 2013, after Texas Senate Republicans passed SB 5—the precursor to HB 2—former Lt. Governor David Dewhurst tweeted a photo created by Planned Parenthood that stated “If SB5 passes, it would essentially ban abortion statewide” with the comment “[w]e fought to pass SB5 thru the Senate last night, & this is why!” It was a rare moment of honesty from a politician committed to the party lie about women’s “health and safety.”

But that’s par for the course for anti-choicers: Most are dishonest.

They are false witnesses who set up institutes—like the Elliot Institute or the Charlotte Lozier Institute—to give themselves an air of credibility, where they conduct anti-scientific research to support their false claims that abortion causes breast cancer (it doesn’t) or that abortion causes mental health issues (nope!) or that it causes depression (wrong again!) or that every person who gets an abortion ends up regretting it (they don’t).

These false witnesses and their allies concoct “medical” myths, like post-abortion syndrome, and then parade before legislative bodies vulnerable women who do regret their abortion, using their trauma as fodder to end access to abortion for everyone. This is what they did in South Dakota in 2005 in support of their efforts to pass an abortion ban. (Ultimately their effort failed: South Dakotans voted against it.)

Anti-choicers also conduct months-long sting operations under the guise of “investigative journalism” as they try to trick abortion providers into agreeing to illegal activity. And all of this to convince the public of a lie—that Planned Parenthood is in the grisly business of selling fetal parts on the black market for pennies on the dollar.

And when their lies don’t move the needle toward banning abortion quickly enough, they begin fiddling with defined medical terms, blurring the line between science and fiction to bolster their case that women should be forced to bear children they either don’t want or can’t afford. Fetuses, embryos, and blastocysts become “unborn children” so that “personhood” advocates can make the case that a six-week embryo should have the same legal rights as a living, breathing person.

In fact, if we’re getting really real, the dishonesty of the modern anti-choice movement is born from a desperate cruelty to control women’s lives by denying them a basic human right: the decision whether and when to become a parent.

They’re driven by their disdain for or outright hatred of any woman who chooses abortion so that she can put off childbirth in order to advance her career. Of any woman who already has children, but cannot afford a second, third, or fourth child. Of any vulnerable woman suffering from a substance abuse problem who needs compassionate care and rehabilitation, not a jail sentence.

And then there’s the lie that I personally find most disturbing: that anti-choice activists are concerned about the abortion rate in the Black community when, in reality, they are simply using Black women as ideological pawns in their war on choice.

They endlessly keen about the abortion rate in the Black community and Black genocide while refusing any examination of their own role in that rate: their decimating of health care and access to contraception, slashing public assistance programs, and cheering the militarization of police in Black communities, all of which can contribute to a Black woman’s decision to terminate a pregnancy rather than carry it to term.

The feigned concern about Black women and Black babies is nauseating: These are people who lament the abortion rate in the Black community while spewing anti-Black racism, or appropriating and perverting the core message of Black Lives Matter—screaming that “Black lives matter even in the womb,” to anyone who will listen, when it is painfully obvious that, for them, Black lives matter only in the womb.

You cannot convince me that right-wing Christian conservative America is sad that there aren’t more Black people in this country. The very notion is absurd.

These people don’t want more Black babies in the world. Black babies turn into Black children and when they do, “Black lives matter even in the womb” becomes “Blue Lives Matter” or “All Lives Matter” when a Black mother seeks justice for her Black child who fell victim to state-sanctioned murder. And all the while, they continue to clutch their pearls about the death of all the millions of Black babies that could have been.

It’s monstrous.

Which is why it’s fitting that they now have in a president a man who seems to think as little of women as they do, and who has as little apparent respect for the truth as they do. Trump will be a disaster for women in this country, whether it’s by signing legislation that will defund Planned Parenthood, appointing justices who may be driven to reverse Roe v. Wade, or simply being a shining demonstration that in this country, millions of Americans don’t view loud displays of misogyny as behavior that would disqualify a man like Trump from the presidency. It’s terrifying.

And we are about to find out what that means for all of us.