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For the Left, Children Are Either Obstacles or Tools
The Stream ^ | May 12, 2022 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 05/12/2022 9:59:00 AM PDT by Heartlander

For the Left, Children Are Either Obstacles or Tools

In the aftermath of a leaked Supreme Court draft majority decision prospectively overruling Roe v. Wade, the Left in the United States has gone into full-fledged panic mode. That outsized panic has manifested as a variety of unconvincing or blatantly immoral arguments: the argument that abortion is a necessary adjunct to women’s freedom — as though contraception doesn’t exist, and as though women are never responsible for their own sexual decisions and the consequences thereof; the argument that unless society provides for any number of government programs, abortion should not be prohibited — as though the solution to lack of universal child care is the death of the child; the argument that conservatives will next attempt to outlaw interracial marriage — an absurd slander on its face.

Children Are Seen as Utterly Disposable

Underlying all of this is a perverse and inverted view of children’s role in society. To the Left, children in the womb are utterly disposable; at best, women may choose to preserve their lives, but if not, they have no separate interests to be considered. In fact, children are to be treated as potential obstacles: as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said this week,

…access to reproductive health care, including abortion, helped lead to increased labor force participation; it enabled many women to finish school. That increased their earning potential.

This explains why the Left has now embraced the language of “forced birth” to describe laws protecting the unborn: pregnancy is no longer seen as the possible biological outgrowth of sexual activity, but as a dramatic foreign imposition on women. The default, for the Left, is childlessness; pregnancy is somehow unnatural. Thus, the entire Democratic Party apparatus now refuses to countenance even the mildest restrictions on even late-term abortion.

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1 posted on 05/12/2022 9:59:00 AM PDT by Heartlander
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For the left, children are sex toys


2 posted on 05/12/2022 9:59:59 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Heartlander

3 posted on 05/12/2022 10:02:29 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Heartlander

Leftists don’t give a crap about women’s health. Killing innocents. Killing. Killing.


4 posted on 05/12/2022 10:10:50 AM PDT by Born in 1950 (Anti left, nothing else.)
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To: dsrtsage

I would say that the left today are the people who started thinking of children as mere toys, which would also include, but not limited to, sex toys and political toys.


5 posted on 05/12/2022 10:12:07 AM PDT by jpp113
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To: Heartlander

bkmk


6 posted on 05/12/2022 10:21:47 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Heartlander

For the Left, everyone is an obstacle or a tool. The objective is Communism with everyone being a cog in the wheel of society.


7 posted on 05/12/2022 10:26:38 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Heartlander

For the left, children, POCs and femmes are mascots. Not a very flattering characterization, is it?


8 posted on 05/12/2022 11:15:55 AM PDT by Migraine ( )
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To: Heartlander

Any time a leftist uses the word “child” or “children” we should add in parentheses “who survived our passion for abortion”.


9 posted on 05/12/2022 11:46:58 AM PDT by happyathome
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