frustration.
I read this post in Jezebel about the new Utah law that makes so-deemed intentional miscarriage the equivalent of murder (which is INSANE and terrible), and reading the rhetoric of the post as well as that of the comments below it did, in the end, make me really frustrated with my fellow lefties.
The rhetoric that the left uses in its defense of abortion and in protest of the laws such as that in Utah is frustrating because it is essentially exactly the same as that used by the other side. The law in Utah is obviously a moral outrage. What I’m frustrated with in the case of such arguments as those made on Jezebel isn’t their point of view (I very much agree with them), but rather the fact that they make their moral outrage the basis of their argument, and ignore the legality question entirely. In so doing, such arguments mirror almost exactly their counterpoints on the right: replace “woman” with “baby” in many of the statements that commenters left below the Jezebel post (i.e., these laws endanger women’s lives, etc.) and you have the words of a Christian conservative at an anti-abortion rally.
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